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Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria: The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries(Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)

Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria: The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries(Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)


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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 in 1959, at the time when over 30,000 "missing" people were deleted from Japanese family registers as" war dead". Since 1972 the zanryu-hojin have been gradually repatriated to Japan, often along with several generations of their extended Chinese families, the group in Japan now numbering around 100,000 people. Besides outlining the zanryu-hojin's experiences, the book explores the related issues of war memories and war guilt which resurfaced during the 1980s, the more recent court case brought by zanryu-hojin against the Japanese government in which they accuse the Japanese government of abandoning them, and the impact on the towns in northeast China from which the zanryu-hojin were repatriated and which now benefit hugely from overseas remittances from their former residents. Overall, the book deepens our understanding of Japanese society and its anti-war social movements, besides providing vivid and colourful sketches of individuals' worldviews, motivations, behaviours, strategies and difficulties.

Table of Contents:
1. Approaches to the Study of Zanryū-hōjin Part I: Structures 2. Historical Origins 3. Personhoods Formed in Rural China 4. Repatriation Since 1972 Part II: Families 5. Three Family Accounts 6. Family in Transition 7. Generational Tension & Personhood Developed in Japan Part III: Negotiation 8. Qiaoxiang Practices & Profiting from Kinship 9. Volunteerism & Activism 10. Conclusion: To What Extent They Have Transformed?

About the Author :
Yeeshan Chan obtained her PhD from the University of Hong Kong and currently works as a freelance journalist. She has published investigative journalism under a different penname, Yeeshan Yang.

Review :
"This is a superbly researched work about the lives and experiences of the Japanese women and children who were abandoned in Manchuria at the end of the Second World War... Yeeshan Chan is to be commended for having produced such a substantive and impressively researched work which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the zanryu-hojin and the impact this community is having on the people of both nations."- Sean Curtin; Japan Society Review Issue 34


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415591812
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 188
  • Sub Title: The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0415591813
  • Publisher Date: 26 Nov 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
  • Weight: 517 gr


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