{"title":"7. Conclusion","authors":"Nora Schrader-Rashidkhan","doi":"10.1515/9783110577662-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110577662-007","url":null,"abstract":"‘Life does not mean that same thing to them and us ... What we feel is the difference, the gulf, the distance between us and them.’1 This response to Japan’s periodic but insistent criticism of the Immigration Restriction Act was printed in 1919 in Brisbane’s evening newspaper the Telegraph. Some habits of mind die hard. Over the decades of Australia’s evolving relationship with Japan since the Meiji period, it seems that photographers have often been intent on inscribing—and reinscribing—this entrenched sense of difference and distance. Yet, as this work has sought to reveal, the vast body of snapshots, lanternslides, art, news, military and governmental photographs through which Australian impressions of Japan have been imaged, conveys a diversity of perspectives, as well as conflicting and sometimes transgressive desires, anxieties and ambitions.","PeriodicalId":162443,"journal":{"name":"Rebel Parties in African Post-Conflict Elections","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124393382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}