Bridging Australia and Japan Volume 2, The writings of David Sissons, historian and political scientist Volume 2, The writings of David Sissons, historian and political scientist /
This book is volume two of the writings of David Sissons, who first established his academic career as a political scientist specialising in Japanese politics, and later shifted his focus to the history of Australia-Japan relations. In this volume, we reproduce his writings on Japanese politics, the...
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. David Sissons and the history of Australia's war crimes trials: A spectral interaction in the archives
- 2. Japanese intentions toward Australia (1939-42)
- 3. The Cowra breakout
- 4. The Australian war crimes trials and investigations (1942-51)
- 5. Observation and correspondence
- Duntroon lecture, July 1978
- 'The trials: Were they justice or vengeance?'
- Some observations on Australian war crimes trials involving cannibalism/mutilation of the dead
- The fate of the Japanese garrisons at Nauru and Ocean Island
- Sissons' correspondence Major Herbert Francis Dick
- 6. David Sissons, political scientist and writer on postwar Japanese politics: An introduction
- Human rights under the Japanese Constitution
- Dissolution of the Japanese Lower House
- 7. Legacy of David Sissons
- DCS Sissons select bibliography.
