As early as Japan's participation in World War I, after gaining the status of a victorious power, it began to expand more aggressively, and Japan's primary goal at that time was Northeast China. In addition to not being willing to completely capture the northeast in the Russo-Japanese War, it was an attempt to gradually swallow up the whole of China with the northeast as a starting point, so in the warlord war at that time, Japan tried to support Zhang Zuolin, but after Zhang Zuolin no longer had use value, it simply got rid of Zhang Zuolin and chose to support the agent from scratch. It was also at this time that Japan began to emigrate to the northeast on a large scale, of which 120,000 women alone immigrated, so where did these Japanese women go after Japan's defeat in 1945?
First, the planned migration to the northeast
After Japan chose to support Zhang Zuolin, it began to migrate to the northeast in a planned way, but the peak period of immigration was after the Japanese army seized the northeast, with the help of the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Japan justifiably immigrated hundreds of thousands of people to the northeast, of which there were as many as 120,000 women alone, this number was once very amazing, from the back of so many women immigrating to the northeast, it can be seen that Japan had already taken the complete annexation of the northeast as a national strategy.
So many women immigrated to the northeast not only to serve the local Japanese enterprises, but also to accelerate the assimilation of the northeast, the Japanese colonists who already had the experience of ruling Taiwan were very aware of the importance of assimilation colonies, so these Japanese women were more to form families in the local area and further assimilate to the northeast.
For the purpose of completely assimilating the northeast, after the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, the number of Japanese immigrants to the northeast increased rapidly, relying on a large number of immigrants and Japanese colonial education, then the northeast could soon be assimilated into a country like Taiwan. It was under the colonial education of Japan that many intellectuals in the northeast began to resist this, which laid the foundation for the large-scale anti-Japanese movement in the northeast.
However, with Japan's all-out invasion of China and the provocation of World War II, which eventually ended up with a defeated outcome, without the prestige of the past, the Japanese authorities began to take care of themselves, began to withdraw troops from China, due to the cumbersome work of withdrawal and the large number of personnel, the limited withdrawal force naturally could not evacuate those immigrants who had immigrated to China, which made those civilians who had immigrated to China for colonial purposes also become victims, and the 120,000 women who immigrated to the northeast were also abandoned by the Japanese authorities.
Second, thorough integration into China
When these women, who had cooperated with the Japanese colonization of Northeast China, learned that they were about to face the fate of abandonment, most of them were full of confusion about the future. Although Tohoku had been away from the war during the Japanese colonial period, and it was only at the end of World War II that the Soviet Lightning Invasion felt the pace of war, but this was a huge blow to the Japanese women who immigrated to the Northeast. Because after the defeat in the war, many Japanese enterprises originally established in the northeast became the target of the victory of the victory, resulting in many of the original enterprise workers also suffered from it, including a large number of Japanese women who immigrated to the northeast, so the Japanese women who lost their sources of income and shelter began to live on the streets in large numbers, and some of them returned to Japan through various channels, but most of the women who had emigrated to the northeast could only choose to stay in China, and also became one of the victims of Japan's colonial expansion.
Most of these Japanese women stranded in China chose to actively integrate into Chinese society, and at that time, Northeast China was still China's industrialization base, and the development prospects were also very broad, especially after the founding of New China, they attached great importance to the resettlement of these Japanese post-war remnants, which allowed them to have the opportunity to fully integrate into China. In the process of integration into China, many Japanese women re-established families in the northeast, and some of them later obtained Chinese nationality, but it was still very difficult for the northeast at that time to accept these people who had been dressed as colonists, after all, the anti-war movement in northeast China reached fourteen years, and the damage of Japanese colonial rule to the northeast during this time was a pain that could not be erased by that generation. Therefore, these Japanese expatriates left over from the war naturally could not accept their integration into Chinese society in a short period of time.
In order to solve this contradiction, the local government of Northeast China at that time also adopted many policies to help the Japanese expatriates stranded in the northeast to better integrate into Chinese society in the new era, and even arranged work to give full play to their strengths and avoid long-term social discrimination. It was these positive policies that gave these women stranded in the northeast a chance to regain their lives, and after the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations, the Japanese authorities also expressed their gratitude to China for its positive acceptance of the post-war diaspora, and also showed China's leniency after the war.
Although these 120,000 Japanese women who had sacrificed their lives for Japanese colonization were basically integrated into China, Japan only expressed its gratitude for the practice of accepting overseas Chinese, but never publicly acknowledged the crime of aggression, so that women who had been forced to stay in northeast China have become victims of war, which is not a historical regret.
III. Conclusion:
In order to successfully colonize the northeast, Japan deliberately immigrated 120,000 women but after the war became the victims of colonial rule, and finally let most of them stay in the northeast, and integrated into China, as the victims of the war of aggression, they were abandoned or even forgotten by the Japanese authorities also represented a manifestation of Japan's reluctance to admit the history of aggression head-on, which made the history of aggression more imprinted in the long river of history.