It's OK to mention the war (46min)

As the 60th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War approaches on August 15, many people will remember once again the appalling treatment of Australian POWs and Asian civilians by the Imperial forces of Japan. So how do Japanese Australians respond? What does the war mean to the forty-somethings who grew up here? How do they deal with the guilt and memories of the older generation?

Journalist Masako Fukui has been living with her family in Australia since the late 1960s. She talks to her mother and father who remember the war, her sister who married the son of a POW and one of her friends (whose father was also a POW) who married a Japanese man, to find out whether they feel history has moved on.