Papers [manuscript]. 1955-1991.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1955-1991.

The great bulk of this collection consists of research files on such subjects as Australians in Japan ; Australian trade and immigration policies towards Japan ; Australian involvement in the Allied occupation of Japan, 1945-50 ; Japanese prisoners of war in Australia ; World War II war crimes trials ; and Japanese espionage in Australia. The collection also includes material gathered for a biography of Professor James Murdoch, the first Australian Professor of Japanese, in addition to a collection of lecture notes and sundry published and unpublished articles.

8.7 m. (62 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7074814

Libraries Australia

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Murdoch, James, 1856-1921

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Sissons, David

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Academic and historian who has spent over thirty five years studying Australian-Japanese relations. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1955-1991. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225828016 David Sissons was an historian in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University (ANU) where he was a Research Fellow from 1961 to 1965 and a Fellow from 1965 to 1990. His principal fields of research were the history of Australian-Japanese...