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Memorializing Prisoners of War in Japan: Local Activism, War Criminals, and Reconciliation
Full text linkDuring the Second World War in the Asia-Pacific theatres, 36,000 Allied Prisoners of War (POWs) were held in camps across Japan’s home islands. After the war, twenty-five memorials were built for these POWs. This paper analyses a selection of these memorials that together reveal major factors that have shaped POW memorials in Japan. Many were created by local activists, and emerged in cooperation with former POWs and their descendants to foster reconciliation, or forged links to nuclear bomb victims and forced Asian labour. Some were built by companies for their own interests or reflected tensions between sympathy for POWs and executed prison guard personnel
Reflections on a Fragment (English version)
No full textAs a child, I felt determined to become an archaeologist – someone digging up hidden, often fractured, sometimes beautiful things that act like lenses. Things that help us to look at and better understand the past. I must have been about eight years old when I recovered a fragment of a putto head from a dilapidated, overgrown drywall in my street. It was missing its upper part, the stone split across the eye line (fig. 1). Though searching, the head’s missing part, including most of the eye section, stayed lost. I remember feeling compelled to take it, ‘rescue’ it from oblivion, to give it dignity and a home. And I remember my strong wish to keep looking at it.
Five decades later, I must admit to my younger self that I did not become an archaeologist, but an art psychotherapist. As a profession, it may have much in common with archaeology. Holding mental and emotional fragmentation, helping splinters of memories - or what is thought of as memories – to surface and to transform through the making of art is archaeology of sorts
The Book Paradox
Full text linkThe Book Paradox was created as part of my studies in creative arts and health at the University of Tasmania. I was encouraged to work mostly within only one medium, and I chose paper. This inspired me to create something with repurposed materials both out of my own curiosity, and from a sustainability viewpoint
Defending the Sky: A Historical Analysis of Israeli Drone Use, 1971-2014
Full text linkThis article analyses the history of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), illustrating the pivotal role of drones from their initial deployment in the 1970s to their sophisticated employment in irregular warfare by 2014. Such an examination allows evaluation of the effectiveness of UAV missions in a variety of scenarios and the extent to which they provide a solution to the strategic threats that Israel faces
Robert Cribb, Christina Twomey, and Sandra Wilson (eds), Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History
Full text linkBy The Sword Divided: The English Civil War as Sunday-Night Television Drama
Full text linkThe English Civil War’s absence from screen-drama has been long bemoaned. Although scholars have started interrogating the topic, particularly with reference to cinematic depictions, thus far there has been total critical neglect of a unique attempt to bring the wars onto the small screen, as popular primetime ‘Sunday-night’ period drama. This article examines this attempt, the BBC1 show, By The Sword Divided (1983-1985), considering its representation of warfare and use of historical research and contextualizing it against popular understandings of civil war history specifically and perceptions of warfare more generally, as well as formats of 1980s popular television drama
The virtual and the real; war films, video games and the Imperial War Museum
Full text linkIn 2022, the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London opened War Games, an exhibition that explored the stories of war and conflict told in a diverse selection of video games from the 1980s to the present. This paper expands upon some of the exhibition’s themes; video games’ shared history with war, and with other screen-based media, and the tensions that exist in any attempt to render the experience of war on screen. In discussing the games featured in IWM’s exhibition, this paper seeks to reflect the diversity of games’ approaches to war, and to advocate scholars’ continuing engagement with a medium capable of shaping and reflecting our feelings about conflict and its aftermath
Time Traveler (English version)
No full textI have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome which impacted on my career and the fulfillment of childhood dreams. I started practicing art therapy at the recommendation of my therapist. That practice helped me improve my symptoms. This work speaks about my analysis of the past as much as my expectations about the future