FEATURE: Japanese POW art in Australasia `entirely ignored` until now
(WorldNews Japan)

Hundreds of works of art created by Japanese prisoners of war and civilian internees detained in Australia and New Zealand during World War II have been studied for the very first time by academics, having been `entirely ignored` by scholars for decades. Undated photo shows a painting of a woman wearing a traditional Japanese kimono by a Japanese wartime internee in New Zealand. (Photo courtesy of Featherston Heritage Museum)(Kyodo) In their article, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, co-authors Richard Bullen from the University of Canterbury and Tets Kimura of Flinders University said the works complicate the commonly accepted narrative of Japanese people during...