Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria: The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries

by Yeeshan Chan

Book Overview

This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan's puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan. Many zanryu-hojin survived in Chinese peasant families, often as wives or adopted children; the Chinese government estimated that there were around 13,000 survivors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415837790
• ISBN13: 9780415837798
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"