Tag: Japan
From the trenches to Tokyo: History student Rebecca Murphy heads overseas
Sydney Catholic Schools history student Rebecca Murphy is one of 20 lucky students on her way to Japan this September holidays to immerse herself in Australian war history, after securing NSW Premier’s Anzac Memorial Scholarship.
Faith, love and war’s tyranny
Shusaku Endo’s 1982 novel, Sachiko, published for the first time in English in 2020, is set among the small community of Japanese Catholics in...
Rising from the ashes
It is now 75 years since the United States dropped the second atomic bomb ever used in wartime on Nagasaki, resulting in a death...