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Following World War II, the Allied Powers occupied Japan from 1945 to 1952, leaving a human legacy: thousands of children of Japanese mothers fathered by men from Australia, the United States, New Zealand, India, and Britain. These mixed-race offspring, and often their mothers, faced intense discrimination.
Based on interviews with or research on 150 konketsuji—a now-taboo word for "mixed-blood" Japanese—journalist Walter Hamilton presents vivid first-person accounts of these adults as they remember their experiences of childhood loss. Using archival material from organizations dedicated to assisting the children, he combines moving personal tales with historical and political analyses of international race relations and immigration policy, particularly in North America and Australia.
Not only were attitudes and behaviors of the Japanese biased against the mixed-race children, but so were the restrictive and prejudicial immigration policies of the fathers' native countries. Japan's racial intolerance was fully matched in the nations it fought against. Hamilton examines how attitudes about race relations have evolved and traces the impact of racial ideology on national policy and cultural identity in Australia, Japan, and the United States.
Contents
Karumi's story
Butterfly and child
War of purification
Mitsuyoshi's story
Conquering Kure
Remaking Japanese women
Mayumi's story
Mixed-blood mythologies
The Eurasian malaise
George's story
Occupational hazards
Enemies in miniature
Kiyotaka's story
Plausible deniability
Our mixed-bloods
Kazumi's story
The Kure project
Half into whole
Johnny's story
Where are they now?
A mixed future