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Subject	World War, 1939-1945–Asia
	Internment camps
	Indonesia
	Australia–History–20th century
Category	4. World War II
Author	古池三八勝, Miyakatsu Koike
Publisher	Self Published by the author
Place Of Publication	Japan
Keywords	Loveday
Current Holder	Personal collection
Period Of Reference	1941/1946
Date	1987
Access Rights	Permission required
Country Of Origin	Japan
Place	Loveday camp
Language	Japanese
Description From Source	English language translation is Four Years in a Red Coat, published by Wakefield Press. Summary of the translation: Before the Japanese Imperial Navy Air Service staged its surprise strike on Pearl Harbor, Miyakatsu Koike lived the privileged life of a Japanese expatriate in the Dutch East Indies. Through the working week he was a conscientious employee of the Yokohama Specie Bank in Surabaya. The rest of his time he could devote to playing golf and tennis, to indulging his hobby photography, and to exploring Java with his wife Fumiko. When his countrymen committed themselves to the ‘Greater East Asia War’, however, that world came to an abrupt and painful end. Four Years in a Red Coat presents for the first time in English translation Miyakatsu Koike’s wartime diary. It is a keenly observed record of his arrest, his hellish voyage to distant South Australia, his endurance of years in the Loveday Internment Camp, and his return ultimately to a war-ravaged homeland. More than that, it is a testament to one man’s calmly stoic triumph over sustained adversity. The scars of his war are indelible, yet Koike emerges from it with his humanity not just intact but enhanced.
Physical Format	Manuscripts
Related Resources	https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3127/

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