Abandoned Japanese In Postwar Manchuria

Download or read book Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria written by Yeeshan Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It examines their eventual repatriation, alongside issues of war memory and war guilt, and the worldviews of the zanryu-hojin, alongsideJapanese society and its anti-war social movements.