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Tue Aug 15

the end of the second world war did not mean peace for Japanese-Australians

Written by: Tets Kimura, Adjunct Lecturer, Creative Arts, Flinders University

Interned Japanese having lunch at their camp at Woolenook Bend, South Australia, 1944.State Library South Australia

For most of the world’s population, the end of the second world war was a glorious day. This was not necessarily the case for Japanese-Australians, who faced repatriation to Japan after being interned by their home country,...