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Michi's Memories: The Story of a Japanese War Bride

Tamura, Keiko

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This book tells the story of Michi, one of 650 Japanese war brides who arrived in Australia in the early 1950s. The women met Australian servicemen in post-war Japan and decided to migrate to Australia as wives and fiancées to start a new life. In 1953, when Michi reached Sydney Harbour by boat with her two Japanese-born children, she knew only one person in Australia: her husband. She did not know any English so she quickly learned her first English phrase, “I like Australia”, in the car on...[Show more]

CollectionsANU Pacific Institute
ANU Press (1965-Present)
Date published: 2011
Type: Book
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/20225
DOI: 10.22459/MM.09.2011
Access Rights: Open Access via publisher website

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