Beatrice Trefalt
Biographic Data
| ID | 337541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatrice Trefalt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Trefalt |
| SIGNATURE | TREFALT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1672-3572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The 1955 Japanese mission to New Guinea
In January 1955, an official mission departed Japan for New Guinea to collect remains of the war dead and to erect commemorative monuments to fallen soldiers. Just before its departure, a diplomatic contretemps arose about the English wording on the Japanese stones: the Japanese government considered them memorials to the dead, whereas the Australian government insisted that they be mere geographical markers noting the search for remains. This ar…
Finding the Remains of the Dead
In 1969, a group of Japanese veterans returned to New Guinea to find the remains of their comrades and conduct funeral rites, one of many such postwar missions to former battlefields. The group documented its search in photographs and published a book of these photographs in 1970. This article shows how the visual cues of the photographs functioned to blur the temporal distance from war and encouraged an emotional response in the viewers by contr…
The Battle of Saipan in Japanese Civilian Memoirs
In Japan, ‘Saipan’ refers both to a nearby tropical holiday, and to the site of a battle that annihilated Japanese troops, embroiled the large population of Japanese residents on the island and ultimately spelled the end of the Japanese empire, now within the reach of bombers. In other places, and particularly amongst the Allies, Saipan conjures up images of civilians jumping to their death rather than facing capture, leading to simplistic assess…
Japanese War Criminals
Tom Gill, Yokohama Street Life
Tom Gill, Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer." Japanese Studies, 36(1), pp. 141–142
Changing lives
Changing lives: the postwar in Japanese women’s autobiographies and memoirs." Asian Studies Review, 40(4), pp. 641–642
Japanese War Criminals in Indochina and the French Pursuit of Justice
After the French liberation of May 1945, General Charles de Gaulle warned the government of Japan that France would be uncompromising in its pursuit of those responsible for war crimes against the population in Indochina. However, by the time the war ended and these ideals had to be put into practice, French determination to punish war criminals had to accommodate the constraints of the French position in the postwar world generally, and Indochin…
Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75
This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended. It explores their return to Japan and their impact on the Japanese people, revealing changing attitudes to war veterans and war casualties' families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war
Guest Editors’ note
Empire of Dogs
Is it conceivable that some people still think that studies about animals must be in the domain of the ‘cute and fluffy’ rather than that of serious scholarship? Aaron Skabelund’s Empire of Dogs ca
Hostages to International Relations? The Repatriation of Japanese War Criminals from the Philippines
While the Philippines was one of the last of the Allied nations to execute Japanese war criminals, it was also one of the first to allow for their repatriation and pardon. This article examines the period between the last execution of Japanese war criminals in January 1951 and the pardon of the remaining criminals in December 1953, in the context of international negotiations regarding the Philippines' position in the lead up to the San Francisco…
Competing Voices from the Pacific War
Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation. Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to September 1945, touching briefly on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan. Although it emphasizes American and Japanese accounts, it also includes perspectives from other nations. Material…
After the Battle for Saipan
Although the islands of the Northern Marianas are famous for the ferocity of the battles of June and July 1944 and their subsequent role as crucial military airbases for the defeat of Japan, they are less well known as the site of the first US occupation of a Japanese territory. During the battles and in their wake, the civilian population of Saipan was herded into internment camps, where they were kept until early 1946. This article considers Ja…
A Peace Worth Having
During the negotiation of the Peace Treaty that would end the Occupation in the spring and summer of 1951, its terms became a matter of great concern for the families of those Japanese still awaiting repatriation from the former wartime empire. This article recounts the little-known story of how citizen protesters lobbied for mention of the repatriation problem in the Peace Treaty and how they eventually succeeded in having repatriation mentioned…
Note from the Guest Editor
Books
A History of the Churches in Australasia. By Ian Breward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi + 474. £65.00 doth. Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities 1945–2000. By Judith E. Berman. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $34.95 paper. Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration. Edited by A. James Hammerton and Eric Richards. Canberra: History Program and Centr…
Publications briefly noted
SHARON KINSELLA. Adult Manga: culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. xii, 228 pp. £12.99, paper. STEPHEN ESKILDSEN. Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1998. vii, 229 pp. US$19.85, paper. H. A. J. KLOOSTER. Bibliography of the Indonesian Revolution, Publications from 1942 to 1994. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1997. Bibliographical Series no. 21. 666 pp. J. E. HO…
A Straggler Returns
(1999). A Straggler Returns: Onoda Hirō and Japanese Memories of the War. War & Society: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 111-124
A Peace Worth Having
During the negotiation of the Peace Treaty that would end the Occupation in the spring and summer of 1951, its terms became a matter of great concern for the families of those Japanese still awaiting repatriation from the former wartime empire. This article recounts the little-known story of how citizen protesters lobbied for mention of the repatriation problem in the Peace Treaty and how they eventually succeeded in having repatriation mentioned…
A Straggler Returns
(1999). A Straggler Returns: Onoda Hirō and Japanese Memories of the War. War & Society: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 111-124
Publications briefly noted
SHARON KINSELLA. Adult Manga: culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. xii, 228 pp. £12.99, paper. STEPHEN ESKILDSEN. Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1998. vii, 229 pp. US$19.85, paper. H. A. J. KLOOSTER. Bibliography of the Indonesian Revolution, Publications from 1942 to 1994. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1997. Bibliographical Series no. 21. 666 pp. J. E. HO…
Books
A History of the Churches in Australasia. By Ian Breward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi + 474. £65.00 doth. Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities 1945–2000. By Judith E. Berman. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $34.95 paper. Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration. Edited by A. James Hammerton and Eric Richards. Canberra: History Program and Centr…
A Peace Worth Having
During the negotiation of the Peace Treaty that would end the Occupation in the spring and summer of 1951, its terms became a matter of great concern for the families of those Japanese still awaiting repatriation from the former wartime empire. This article recounts the little-known story of how citizen protesters lobbied for mention of the repatriation problem in the Peace Treaty and how they eventually succeeded in having repatriation mentioned…
Note from the Guest Editor
Competing Voices from the Pacific War
Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation. Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to September 1945, touching briefly on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan. Although it emphasizes American and Japanese accounts, it also includes perspectives from other nations. Material…
After the Battle for Saipan
Although the islands of the Northern Marianas are famous for the ferocity of the battles of June and July 1944 and their subsequent role as crucial military airbases for the defeat of Japan, they are less well known as the site of the first US occupation of a Japanese territory. During the battles and in their wake, the civilian population of Saipan was herded into internment camps, where they were kept until early 1946. This article considers Ja…
Hostages to International Relations? The Repatriation of Japanese War Criminals from the Philippines
While the Philippines was one of the last of the Allied nations to execute Japanese war criminals, it was also one of the first to allow for their repatriation and pardon. This article examines the period between the last execution of Japanese war criminals in January 1951 and the pardon of the remaining criminals in December 1953, in the context of international negotiations regarding the Philippines' position in the lead up to the San Francisco…
Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75
This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended. It explores their return to Japan and their impact on the Japanese people, revealing changing attitudes to war veterans and war casualties' families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war
Guest Editors’ note
Empire of Dogs
Is it conceivable that some people still think that studies about animals must be in the domain of the ‘cute and fluffy’ rather than that of serious scholarship? Aaron Skabelund’s Empire of Dogs ca
Japanese War Criminals in Indochina and the French Pursuit of Justice
After the French liberation of May 1945, General Charles de Gaulle warned the government of Japan that France would be uncompromising in its pursuit of those responsible for war crimes against the population in Indochina. However, by the time the war ended and these ideals had to be put into practice, French determination to punish war criminals had to accommodate the constraints of the French position in the postwar world generally, and Indochin…
Tom Gill, Yokohama Street Life
Tom Gill, Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer." Japanese Studies, 36(1), pp. 141–142
Changing lives
Changing lives: the postwar in Japanese women’s autobiographies and memoirs." Asian Studies Review, 40(4), pp. 641–642
Japanese War Criminals
The Battle of Saipan in Japanese Civilian Memoirs
In Japan, ‘Saipan’ refers both to a nearby tropical holiday, and to the site of a battle that annihilated Japanese troops, embroiled the large population of Japanese residents on the island and ultimately spelled the end of the Japanese empire, now within the reach of bombers. In other places, and particularly amongst the Allies, Saipan conjures up images of civilians jumping to their death rather than facing capture, leading to simplistic assess…
Finding the Remains of the Dead
In 1969, a group of Japanese veterans returned to New Guinea to find the remains of their comrades and conduct funeral rites, one of many such postwar missions to former battlefields. The group documented its search in photographs and published a book of these photographs in 1970. This article shows how the visual cues of the photographs functioned to blur the temporal distance from war and encouraged an emotional response in the viewers by contr…
The 1955 Japanese mission to New Guinea
In January 1955, an official mission departed Japan for New Guinea to collect remains of the war dead and to erect commemorative monuments to fallen soldiers. Just before its departure, a diplomatic contretemps arose about the English wording on the Japanese stones: the Japanese government considered them memorials to the dead, whereas the Australian government insisted that they be mere geographical markers noting the search for remains. This ar…
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