William Meira Meira itibaren Basatpur 44400, Nepal itibaren Basatpur 44400, Nepal

Scholarly book on an interesting subject. Before and during the war, many Japanese emigrated to the colonial territory in Korea, China, and Manchuria. After the war, the US occupying forces decided to send all those people 'home' for a mix of reasons, some nicer than others. From interviews and other primary sources, this book talks about the physical details of repatriation and how repatriates were viewed/treated by themselves and 'insider' Japanese, who were not always very welcoming. Men who were POWs in Siberia were suspected of Communist sympathies/ indoctrination, and women from Manchuria and other areas had a hard time marrying because of the chance that they had been victims of sexual violence. Some number of women were even forced to have abortions upon arrival in Japan because Soviet rape babies would cause racial impurities. The book is the kind of thing written by a professor on a 1-year sabbatical and so perhaps a a little too detailed and dry for my interests, but overall pretty readable even for the layman.