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History Illuminated — Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the occupation of Japan

Robin Gerster joins History Illuminated to discuss his book Travels in Atomic Sunshine, a vivid, salutary study of Australia’s little-known participation in the post-war occupation of Japan.

Drawing intensively on diary entries, papers and personal interviews with Australian soldiers, Robin paints an intricate portrait of moral and cultural disorientation felt by Aussie “conquerors” as they come to terms with not only an enemy decimated by atomic horror but also their own inherent prejudices.

Robin Gerster is a professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning study Big-noting: the heroic theme in Australian war writing (1987); the travel book Legless in Ginza: orientating Japan (1999); the critical anthologies Hotel Asia (1995) and On the Warpath (2004), and Pacific Exposures: photography and the Australia-Japan relationship (2018), co-authored with Melissa Miles. His articles have been published extensively in scholarly journals in both Australia and abroad, and he has been a frequent writer of travel pieces for newspapers and magazines.

Travels in Atomic Sunshine

Robin Gerster

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 16 Jul 2019 Category: International relations Cover view

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