Global Utilities

Issue: September 2005

News

Sixty years on: Australia and Japan today

La Trobe University Politics Society recently held a public seminar dealing with the end of the Pacific War titled Sixty Years On: Australia and Japan Today. The seminar examined what Australians and Japanese of today though about their old foes.

Chaired by Professor of Politics, Dennis Altman, speakers included journalist and author Cameron Forbes, La Trobe lecturer Asian Studies, Dr Kaori Okano, and Yoshio Sugimoto, Professor of Sociology at La Trobe.

Professor Sugimoto is an internationally-acclaimed scholar of, and commentator on, Japan. As part of the first post-war generation Professor Sugimoto reflected on his own experience and Australia-Japan relations today.

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