Michi's memories : the story of a Japanese war bride /
Tamura, Keiko,
Michi's memories : the story of a Japanese war bride / Keiko Tamura. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue -- chapter 1. Encounters in occupied Japan -- chapter 2. Marrying an Australian soldier -- chapter 3. Becoming an Australian wife and mother -- chapter 4. Later years -- chapter 5. Children's views -- Epilogue, personal reflections.
Michi, one of 650 Japanese war brides, 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 the way from the harbour to meet her Australian family. In the last fifty years, she brought up seven children while the family moved from one part of Australia to another. Now, in her eighties, she leads a peaceful life in Adelaide, but remains active in many ways
English.
9781921862526 1921862521 1921862513 9781921862519
WK Hancock Library, The Australian National University, Acton ACT 0200 22573/ctt236nnx JSTOR
War brides--Australia.
Japanese--Australia.
Interracial marriage--Australia.
Women immigrants--Australia.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Women.
Interracial marriage.
Japanese.
War brides.
Women immigrants.
Australia.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
DU122.J36
920.720994
Michi's memories : the story of a Japanese war bride / Keiko Tamura. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue -- chapter 1. Encounters in occupied Japan -- chapter 2. Marrying an Australian soldier -- chapter 3. Becoming an Australian wife and mother -- chapter 4. Later years -- chapter 5. Children's views -- Epilogue, personal reflections.
Michi, one of 650 Japanese war brides, 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 the way from the harbour to meet her Australian family. In the last fifty years, she brought up seven children while the family moved from one part of Australia to another. Now, in her eighties, she leads a peaceful life in Adelaide, but remains active in many ways
English.
9781921862526 1921862521 1921862513 9781921862519
WK Hancock Library, The Australian National University, Acton ACT 0200 22573/ctt236nnx JSTOR
War brides--Australia.
Japanese--Australia.
Interracial marriage--Australia.
Women immigrants--Australia.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Women.
Interracial marriage.
Japanese.
War brides.
Women immigrants.
Australia.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
DU122.J36
920.720994