Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for Japan Studies, CAAS Unit

Public lecture: "Children of WWII: Indo-Europeans born during the Japanese

occupation of the Dutch East Indies in search for their Japanese fathers"

Speaker: Dr Aya Ezawa (Leiden University)

29 May 2018, 18:00-19:30

Venue: Lecture Building Room 101

English

Open to all, free, no pre-registration required




Abstract:

More than 70 years have passed since the end of WWII and the Japanese

occupation of the Dutch East Indies, yet even today, many children born of war

of Indo-European (Dutch/European and Indonesian) and Japanese descent

remain deeply invested in the search for their Japanese fathers. Why are they,

even now, searching for their fathers? What has been lost, and what can be

gained? What does it mean to be the child of an Indo-European mother and

Japanese father, born during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies?

In this talk, I will examine the life stories of Indo-European children born of war

in search for their Japanese fathers, to explore not only their personal journeys

in encountering Japan, but also the continuing impact of the history of the

Japanese occupation on their lives in the Netherlands.

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