Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: This digital archive is a display of 340 photographs taken by Australian soldier John Allen Entwistle during his time in Occupied Japan. Entwistle was part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) from February 1946 to January 1947. While in the Hiroshima Prefecture, Entwistle experienced a side of Japan that had been forgotten by Australia in World War II and he was able to capture his personal story on camera. The collection includes BCOF duties and social life, glimpses of growing Australian-Japanese relations, the vivid life of Japanese culture, religion and architecture, landscapes of the Hiroshima prefecture and the aftermath of World War II. The photographs in this collection aim to shed some light on a forgotten force in Australia’s history, and bring attention to early post-war Australian-Japanese relations.
- Institution/Author: Western Sydney University
- Period: Modern
- Geographic Focus: Japan
- Access: Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎