Four Years in a Red Coat
The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike
$29.75
- Paperback
214 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2022
Summary
This publication of an internee’s personal diaries will expand our understanding of the civilian internment experience in Australia during World War II, through the words of a Japanese internee who spent four years behind the barbed wire at Loveday.
The title of this book refers to the dyed red coats that were provided to Japanese and other internees in Australia.
Miyakatsu Koike worked in 1941 for a Japanese bank in Indonesia (at the time known as the Dutch East Indies). When…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743058961 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1743058969 |
| Author: | Miyakatsu Koike, Hiroko Cockerill, Peter Monteath, Yuriko Nagata |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 214 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
Miyakatsu Koike
Miyakatsu Koike worked in 1941 for a Japanese bank in Indonesia (at the time known as the Dutch East Indies). When Japan entered World War II, he was arrested by Dutch authorities and, eventually, transferred to Australia’s Loveday - the largest World War II internment camp in the country. Koike remained in Loveday until February 1946, and wrote a diary of his experiences during the war.
Hiroko Cockerill is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, specialising in translation studies. Her research includes books and articles about the translations of Futabatei Shimei. She has translated several books, from Russian to Japanese and from Japanese to English.
Peter Monteath, a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, teaches History in the School of International Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide. His recent books include POW: Australian prisoners of war in Hitler’s Reich, Red Professor: The Cold War life of Fred Rose (with Valerie Munt), Interned: Torrens Island 1914-1915 (with Mandy Paul and Rebecca Martin), and the edited collection Germans: Travellers, settlers and their descendants in South Australia.
Dr Yuriko Nagata is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the School of Languages and Cultures of the University of Queensland. Her book Unwanted Aliens (1996, University of Queensland Press) is a standard reference work on Japanese internment in Australia during World War II.
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