Behind the 2 million Japanese expatriates occupying the magpie's nest, why is there no ethnic Japanese in China?

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Text: Little Fish

Editor|Little Fish

《——【·Preface·】——》

The influx of 2 million Japanese expatriates into China is like a ripple of history that has left a deep mark on this land.

However, what we see today is a phenomenon that is difficult to ignore: despite their large numbers and deep culture, why has China not formed a "Japanese ethnic group"?

What are the historical and social reasons behind this?

A hidden corner of Japanese colonization

In the fertile land of the Northeast, the Japanese have long been eyeing each other. After the victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan began an elaborate immigration program.

Outwardly, these immigrants were ordinary peasants, but in fact each "pioneer regiment" was armed to the teeth. In a typical Japanese immigrant village, 82 households are equipped with 120 rifles, six grenadiers, and even an underground arsenal.

Where is this peasantry, it is clearly a disguised army. There is more to Japanese immigrants than meets the eye, with basic military training and the ability to quickly change identities in wartime.

The location of the villages is also of great strategic significance, and most of them are built on transportation arteries and resource-rich areas, forming a network of military nodes.

The Japanese government provides special allowances for these "peasants", and the cost of purchasing weapons and ammunition is borne entirely by the state. Paramilitary management is practiced within the migrant villages, with regular defensive drills and shooting drills.

This precise layout reveals Japan's long-term plans for Tohoku, where immigration is not only a tool for population expansion, but also a reserve force for future wars.

A colonial dream of blood and tears

After the September 18 Incident in 1931, Japan's ambitions were completely exposed. In just a few years, 150,000 Japanese people poured into Shenyang, and the whole city became "Little Tokyo".

The Japanese government launched the "Manchurian and Mongolian Colonization Project", planning to send 5 million immigrants to Northeast China. In the countryside of Heilongjiang, Japanese immigrants used the "fire attack method" to force Chinese peasants to sign land transfer documents, pour gasoline on their houses, and watch the peasants who lost their homes in the fire.

Three Chinese villages disappeared per square kilometer and were replaced by "pioneer villages" by the Japanese.

Behind this brutality lies a systematic plan of ethnic replacement, with the Japanese even drawing detailed maps of villages marking which Chinese villages are "suitable for elimination."

The immigrants also brought with them crops and farming methods that were unique to Japan, in an attempt to fundamentally change the agricultural structure of Tohoku.

Many of the deported Chinese peasants were displaced and reduced to cheap labor on Japanese farms, working sixteen hours a day for a pittance.

The Japanese colonists also controlled the distribution of grain, and during the famine, they gave priority to the food rations of Japanese immigrants, resulting in a large number of Chinese peasants starving to death. This planned population replacement has dealt a deep blow to the ethnic composition and economic structure of the northeast region.

The identity puzzle in the shadow of the empire

Kita's "Yamato Empire" strategy and Tanaka Yoshiichi's "continental policy" revealed Japan's true intentions. Not only did they want to occupy the land, but they also tried in vain to make the Japanese one of the main ethnic groups in Tohoku through cultural infiltration.

Japanese language education is mandatory, and Chinese who speak their mother tongue are fined. Japanese immigrants enjoy zero-interest loans, while Chinese farmers have to pay 65 percent of their harvest.

This combination of economic plunder and cultural erosion has tormented the people of Northeast China. The Japanese authorities also promote a "dual legal system", in which Chinese and Japanese face completely different punishment standards for the same crime.

Japanese immigrants have their own hospitals and schools, and enjoy social benefits that far exceed those of the locals. "Yamato Kaikan" has also been established in various localities, and traditional Japanese festivals are held on a regular basis, and local Chinese residents are forced to participate.

The children of Japanese immigrants were taught to see themselves as "national pioneers on the front lines," and many textbooks directly promoted the theory of Japanese national superiority.

Tohoku's urban planning also deliberately mimicked the Japanese style, with a large number of traditional Chinese buildings demolished and replaced with Japanese-style neighborhoods. The purpose of this all-round cultural invasion is to completely dissolve the Chinese identity of the Northeast region.

48 hours from heaven to hell

On August 15, 1945, the news of Japan's surrender came, and Japanese immigrants from all over Tohoku fell into a frenzy.

In Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province, 4,800 Japanese immigrants committed suicide en masse, women crashed babies into a stone mill before jumping into a well, and men distributed grenades and detonated en masse.

Behind this crazy behavior are the terrible consequences of militaristic brainwashing. Japanese immigrants have been indoctrinated for a long time and have been taught to "die rather than give in" and "live for the emperor and die for the emperor."

On the day of the defeat, many Japanese teachers in the migrant villages organized students to line up to take poison, and the children, who were only seven or eight years old, were told that it was a "return to heaven" ceremony.

Some migrant villages even prepared detailed plans for mass suicide in advance, including poison recipes and distribution sequences.

Eyewitnesses at the scene described that in some villages, the Japanese killed livestock first, then burned the grain, and finally ended their own lives, embodying the ultra-nationalist ideology of "it is better to break the jade than to be destroyed".

Most of the surviving Japanese immigrants were orphans rescued by Chinese peasants, and after these children were adopted, many of them could not escape the psychological shadow for the rest of their lives, becoming the most innocent victims of the war.

The ultimate choice of history

After the end of World War II, the Chinese government was faced with a major choice: whether to allow the Japanese immigrants to stay? The Japanese government's request for migrants to continue their lives in their places of origin was flatly rejected.

From 1946 to 1948, 1.4 million Japanese immigrants were repatriated. In 1952, another 100,000 people were sent back, and after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in 1972, the last 15,000 Japanese orphans also left.

These people are Japanese in China, and when they return to Japan, they are treated as Chinese, and they have truly become a tragic group of "people on both sides".

The repatriation process was fraught with hardships, and many Japanese immigrants had to take their belongings with them, and all their hard-earned possessions were lost. Upon their return to Japan, they were seen as a symbol of defeat and suffered exclusion and discrimination.

Even more tragic are the Japanese orphans who have been adopted by Chinese families, who have fully embraced Chinese culture and language, but are unable to adapt when they return to Japan, and many live in the gap of identity for the rest of their lives.

Some Japanese orphans did not confirm their origins until their later years, and some even organized "root-seeking meetings" to try to retrieve their memories and relatives in China.

《——【·Conclusion·】——》

This history tells us that the ambitions of the colonizers were destined to be empty.

The 2 million Japanese immigrants have not left a national heritage in China, and have only left a heavy memory in the long river of history.

In today's Tohoku land, those former Japanese immigrant villages have long been overgrown with grass, and when the wind blows, it tells the vicissitudes of history.

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