Screen LibraryJapanese war orphans : abandoned twice by the state /
"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....
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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 Japanese society and historians of the Sino-Japanese war would find this an ideal read"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 240 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780367187576 0367187574 9781032138206 1032138203 |
| Index Number: | DS777 |
| CLC: | K152 |
| Call Number: | K152/Z637 |
| Contents: | Introduction: the creation of Japanese war orphans in China -- Surviving as a Chinese -- Awakening Japanese identity -- The "warm" motherland and the "cold" motherland -- Lawsuits against "motherland" Japan -- Gratitude and rejection towards Chinese foster parents -- Japanese war orphans in China from the point of view of Japanese volunteers -- In between Chinese and Japanese cultures -- Conclusion: the nature of issues surrounding Japanese war orphans in China. |