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Japanese War Orphans - Abandoned Twice by the State (Hardcover)
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Japanese War Orphans - Abandoned Twice by the State (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
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After Japan's defeat in August 1945, some Japanese children were
abandoned in China and raised by Chinese foster parents. They were
unable to return to Japan even during the mass repatriation carried
out by the Japanese government in the 1950s. Most of them returned
to Japan in the 1980s. They are called Japanese war orphans. They
are victims of the Sino-Japanese War and have been exploited and
abandoned by the Japanese government. They are also "border people"
who have lived in the interstices between two nations, China and
Japan, and are migrants who have exploited the gap in economic
development between Japan and China to seek individual happiness.
Modern East Asia underwent drastic social change. These drastic
social changes affected the lives of the Japanese war orphans and
their families in a variety of ways. Over the years, Zhong has
interviewed Japanese war orphans, their Chinese foster parents, and
Japanese volunteers. The title is an interview-based sociological
study of the issue of Japanese war orphans. The first half of the
Japanese war orphans' lives were spent in China, and the latter
half in Japan. It brings to the fore the dramatic personal
histories of the Japanese war orphans surviving in the interstices
between two nation-states. Through analyzing the issue of Japanese
war orphans, the research on the subject makes the following three
points: (1) the powerlessness of civilians caught up in modern
warfare and the long-lasting effects of modern warfare on the life
histories of individuals and their families; (2) the nature of the
modern nation-state, which exploits and abandons its citizens as
though they were expendable; and (3) immigration as a product of
modernization gaps. Scholars pursuing studies in both Japanese
society & Chinese society and historians of the Sino-Japanese
war would find this an ideal read.
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