Watching the Sun Rise: Australian Reporting of Japan, 1931 to the Fall of Singapore

by Jacqui Murray

Historians have long claimed that a tradition of fear of Japan dominated Australian thinking about foreign affairs and defense after Japan's defeat of Russia in 1905 and that this fear remained widespread throughout the Australian population until the Pacific War. This study of Australian reporting on Japan challenges that claim by exposing a culture of state censorship, intimidation of the media, and neglect of official public discussion of foreign...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739107828
• ISBN13: 9780739107829
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"