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Australian, British, Dutch and U.S. POWs: Living under the shadow of the Nagasaki Bomb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Mick Broderick  and
David Palmer
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David Palmer's timely opinion piece in The Melbourne Age on 6 August 2015 draws attention to the little remembered history of scores of Australian and other allied POWs who were held as slave labourers in Japanese war industries in Nagasaki before and at the time of the atom bombing. Aspects of this neglected history also form a major component of my recent multi-screen, hyper-visualisation exhibition “Fading Lights: Australian POW and BCOF Troops in Japan 1945-52”, co-curated with Stuart Bender (Curtin University).

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 32 , August 2015 , e4
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Notes

1 Peter McGrath-Kerr, guoted in Hugh V. Clarke, 1984, Last Stop Nagaskai! Sydney, Allen & Unwin, p. 96. Denis Warner. 1995. ‘These Men Lived On to Tell a Ghastly Tale’. New York Times. 9 August.

2 Peter McGrath-Kerr, guoted in Hugh V. Clarke, 1984, Last Stop Nagaski! Sydney, Allen & Unwin, p. 96. Denis Warner. 1995. ‘These Men Lived On to Tell a Ghastly Tale’. New York Times. 9 August.

3 Edlington, David. 1995. “An incandescent flash of death”, The Canberra Times, 27 July, p. 11.

4 Clarke, Last Stop Nagaskai! p. 130. See also “Free medicine for POWs”, The Canberra Times, 14 August 1980, p. 7.

5 “Peter McGrath-Kerr as a sergeant 2/40th Australian Infantry Battalion and a prisoner of the Japanese, 1940-1945, interviewed by Tim Bowden”

6 Clarke, Last Stop Nagaskai!, pp. 105-109.

7 Clarke, Last Stop Nagaskai!, pp. 106.

8 Ibid.

9 Okada Gen, 2014, “Nagasaki residents seek to remember POWs who died in local camp”, Asahi Shimbun, 29 January

10 BBC News online, 2015 “Japan's Mitsubishi makes prisoners of war apology”

11 Associated Press, 2015, “Mitsubishi to apologise to POWs”, 22 July