At the end of World War II, in order to make Japan surrender, but brought a lot of losses to the United States, Japan at that time has gone to a desperate situation, and it is precisely because Japan has reached a situation where there is no more to lose, so they are particularly fearless, in the face of American bombing, Japan used the "Jade Crush Plan" to resist to the death.
Faced with Japan's elongated front, the United States had no choice but to take a move to defeat the enemy, dropping two deadly atomic bombs, and then Japan quickly surrendered as if it had been awakened. The soldiers who were still in various countries were also a little caught off guard when they heard this news, and surrendered in situ before they could withdraw their troops. At that time, there were about 2 million Japanese troops remaining in China, and at that time, japan surrendered and demanded that prisoners from all countries be repatriated.
The United States has happily agreed to Japan's request, but with such a large number of Japanese war criminals, even if japan brings back these soldiers in various current conditions, it will be difficult to maintain, and what kind of treatment will Japanese war criminals face after returning to China at that time?
Of these, 600,000 soldiers were sent to the Soviet Union as compensation, and it happened that the Soviet Union suffered heavy losses in the war, and these Japanese soldiers would go to Siberia to do hard labor, and nearly 100,000 people died on the way. And it was late autumn, Siberia was a cold region, and in the harsh environment, many people were frozen to death. In addition, the Soviet Union at that time was also facing a serious shortage of materials, of course, it was used by its own people first.
Under the strong control of the Soviet Union, although the large number of Japanese troops did not resist, only 300,000 people survived in the context of the environment at that time. The Japanese government did not care what would happen to these people, but was busy rebuilding after the war.
Compared with the Japanese prisoners who were sent to Siberia for hard labor, some of them died of condemnation at home, and they thought that they would be respected after returning to China, but the truth was diametrically opposed, on the one hand, the Japanese government snubbed, there was no living allowance for these people who went to the battlefield, and they also suffered ridicule from others. In such a living environment, most of them also chose to commit suicide and were also called the "Spirit of Bushido".
What is even more ridiculous is that the Yasukuni Shrine established by Japan at that time enshrined a large number of Japanese troops who died in World War II, and in the face of the dead Japanese army, Japan gave a very high treatment, while those who survived had to face a more terrible reality, which also disappointed the Returning Japanese War Criminals to the extreme, and did not expect to fall to such a point. Although a large number of war criminals were repatriated, Japan did not cherish its soldiers, resulting in a large number of Japanese deaths.