In 1945, the Japanese Emperor announced his surrender, and the Japanese army's aggressive evil deeds were declared a failure. After the defeat of the war, Japan began to withdraw from the country, but many people did not return to Japan for various reasons but stayed in China, many of them orphans abandoned by the war, the number of about 5,000 people, almost all concentrated in northeast China.
Faced with these homeless children, Chinese people put aside their hatred and chose to adopt them. This is unique in the history of war, what is hidden behind these abandoned orphans?
After the Meiji Restoration, Japan developed unprecedentedly, but the narrow terrain limited Japan's policy of great power, and on the eve of the outbreak of World War II, Japanese militarist ideas were unprecedentedly high, and the strategy of foreign war was determined. After the September 18 Incident, Japan targeted northeast China and organized a purposeful and planned immigration invasion. Japan had made public plans to invade 5 million people to the northeast within a year, and by 1945 there were more than 1.5 million Japanese in the northeast.
At the end of the war, Japan was gradually defeated in the northeast, the unprotected Japanese industry and commerce quickly collapsed, most of the people began to evacuate, and even millions of refugees appeared, and a small number of people were abandoned in the northeast, most of these people are old, weak, sick and disabled, not suitable for long-distance travel. Many people died of illness and starvation during the evacuation, and some Japanese parents left their children in the wilderness to escape for their lives, and the bloody fascists also took bloody measures against their compatriots and carried out mass massacres.
Many of the orphans who were abandoned were rescued by the Chinese people, who were unfortunate because they were abandoned in a foreign country because of the war, and they were also fortunate to be rescued by the Chinese government and people. We reached out to these enemies and left them with virtue, and after the end of the war China was devastated, our people still saved their already small amount of food to feed them, and tried their best to educate them and grow up.
As they get older, many orphans miss their hometowns more and more, and the Chinese government assists The Japanese diaspora to return to China to find their relatives. In the 1960s, various family visits were carried out thanks to the efforts of Chinese and Japanese civil society organizations and the government.
Later, in 1972, China and Japan put aside their hatred and established diplomatic relations, creating conditions for Japanese orphans left in China. More people can return to their hometowns to visit their relatives, all the costs are borne by the two governments, and large-scale family visits activities are emerging in an endless stream. By 2000, the government had organized more than 30 activities to help Japanese orphans find relatives and friends, and many decided to return to Japan after determining that there were still relatives in Japan.
The good deeds of the Chinese people have won the wide support of the international community, and people from all walks of life in Japan have been even more moved. In 1983, Japanese leaders publicly said to the orphans of the war: "It is a mistake to start a war, and unfortunately you have lived in China for more than 30 years.", the Japanese orphans have said that China has given too much help to the orphans left over from the war.
They have an indescribable sense of closeness to China, turning over the history of the development of China and Japan, what a close partner they were, but under the influence of militarist ideas, Japan launched a brutal war against China, causing heavy damage, and the same is true of these orphans of war, but when they are desperate, it is the Chinese government and people who have pulled them back from the brink of death, given them food, let them live, and studied and worked with the help of the government.
It is worth mentioning that many orphans returned to Japan, and some people decided to stay in China, some of them are ordinary people, some are experts and scholars, did not return to Japan because China gave them a second life, they said: "We are also Chinese, have been integrated into China." "They have dedicated their lives to the construction of our country. Compared with those "Chinese" who ran abroad, changed to foreign nationality, were indifferent to the motherland, and were selfish and selfish, these Japanese orphans were really much better.
For them, this is their home, the place where they grew up, willing to dedicate everything to China, the Chinese nation is the most inclusive nation in the world, but also the most respectable nation in the world, we use our tolerant mind to treat the former enemy, only because we are Chinese.