Ill-Fated Diaspora of Japanese Farmer-Settlers

Abstract

The next major question is: How were the orphans created during the Soviet Army invasion of Manchuria in the final stage of the second Sino-Japanese War? This chapter documents what the Japanese farmer- settlers had gone through when the Soviet Army invaded Manchuria, from the perspective of mothers, girls, and boys, thereby illustrating how the children were separated from their mothers and became “orphans.”