Australia and the occupation of Japan
by
Robin Gerster
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
A vivid, salutary study of Australia’s little-known participation in the post-war occupation of Japan.
In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to ‘demilitarise and democratise’ the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima...