Chinese Parents Raised Japanese Orphans

Every morning I get angry or depressed to read newspapers. Today's headlines were "The government is making a new rule to keep education under much tighter control." "The U.S. vice president told Abe not to visit Yasukuni Shrine, but he didn't listen." Abe government is hard working(!!) and everyday they do something wrong and so it's difficult for us even to follow them up. My husband says, "It's no use to complain, bacause the people voted LDP without knowing they are strangling themselves," and writes and prints newsletters and flyers practically.

Yesterday I went to see a documentary film about the Japanese people left in China after the war .
Do you know that Japan sent a lot of people, mainly poor peasant families and teenage boys, to the northern part of China to make farm the place. Of course it was the land of Chinese people, but confiscated by Japan. The government encouraged people and young students saying, "You can have big land and live richer lives there." "It's safe because the Japanese army guard you,""It's a great thing to contribute the nation."
When the Russian army came into China and Japan lost the war, Japanese had to leave China. The first to leave on trains or cars were the army and the officers' families! Those people who were farming, most of them were women and children because adult men had already been taken as soldiers, were left behind without any ways to refuge. But they had to leave and come back to Japan, and it took months and years to walk suffering cold, starvation, deseases, and fear. During their journey, so many people died, or suicided. Some people even killed their own children as it was difficult to take small children along.
Some women left and married Chinese men.
After the war so many Japanese children were left in China without parents. Some were left at Chinese families, sometimes just outside the houses. Those children were raised in China. Decads later many of them wanted to know about their families or identities or to come back to Japan. How hard their lives were! In the film I saw yesterday some of them were telling their stories.

When I think of their adoptive Chinese parents, I am amazed at their generosity. Japan invaded and colonizes their homeland, and behaved cruelly. They adopted their enemy's children, probably dirty, starving, and sick. They had to feed and clothe them for years at least, even if they could expect them as a family member to work later. I've heard stories of the parents who loved their adopted Japanese children, gave education, helped to find out their Japanese parents, cried when they sent them back to Japan .

One of the Chinese leader had the idea in those days that they would not confuse Japan's militarism and its people.
I'm ashamed of the people who shout their hatred to China probably without knowing the history. I hope we, the common people can shake our hands and put the offensive policy down.
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