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Michi's Memories

The Story Of A Japanese War Bride

Michi's Memories
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This book is the first in English to tell the story of a Japanese war bride. Michi was one of 650 Japanese war brides who arrived in Australia in the early 1950s. These women fell in love with Australian servicemen in war-torn Japan, and decided to migrate to Australia as wives and fianc饳 to start a new life. When the war brides walked up the gangplank to board the boats which would take them to Australia, they were determined to establish new lives in their husbands' country. However, it was beyond anybody's anticipation, including their own, how difficult it would prove to be for them to become Australian. Michi's Memories centres on the life story of a Japanese woman who went through the Pacific war, the occupation of Japan and migration to Australia. Her experiences led from Japan to New Guinea during the war, and from Japan to Australia in the post-war period. In her own words, Michi tells how she tried to become an Australian wife and mother in spite of her different cultural background. Now in her eighties, she reflects upon her experiences over the past fifty years. Her children also give their own views on their mother's experience. Keiko Tamura's sensitive study reveals the difficulties the women faced in Australia when general hostility toward Japan as an ex-enemy nation was still strong, and the idea of "white Australia" was widely accepted. It examines how the women demonstrated their strength throughout the process of adaptation to a drastically different culture through their flexibility and resilience. The book also examines the historical background of how a young Japanese woman met a young Australian soldier in occupied Japan, and touches upon the recent development of network formation among the war brides.
Pandanus Books; January 2001
118 pages; ISBN 9781740760669
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