Robin Gerster is Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. He is the author of Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing (1987) and several other books, including Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan (2008). His latest work (co-written with Melissa Miles) is Pacific Exposures: Photography and the Australia-Japan Relationship (2018).