Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Japanese war orphans visit graves of
adoptive Chinese parents
At the end of the Japan’s war against China
in 1945, many Japanese migrants had lived in northern part of China, then
called Manchu. They faced unthinkably difficult time when their military guard,
Kwantung Army, left them and retreated to Korean Peninsula. During the chaos, many
Japanese children were abandoned in China. Some of the fortunate ones were
raised by the local Chinese families. When China and Japan normalized their
relations in 1972, most of them returned to Japan.
Now after seven decades from the war, some
of those Japanese orphans, now seniors, came back to China to visit the graves
of their foster parents. Without them, they wouldn’t live now, even though some
of them had harsh treatment by their Chinese parents.
Enjoy reading and learning how China
reports such abandoned and raised Japanese children at the end of the war.
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