Beyond Ginza is a literary novel in which an Australian child who suffers synaesthesia, Alice May Caulfield, confronts the intercultural scene of post-World War II Japan where her Army Major father manages the Marunouchi Hotel in Tokyo for the British Commonwealth occupying forces. Alice’s perspective is poetic. She spends time touring with her mother, meeting Japanese people from all walks of life and begins to question the vast gap between the occupation’s elite military guests
This book is in the early research and planning phase. Although this story is predicated on a truth about my family as attested by the photographs below, my memories are restricted to the photos and a few family tales.
