What is the fate of millions of Japanese nationals stranded in Northeast China after Japan's defeat and surrender?

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has always regarded aggression against China as one of its development and strategic goals, and the subsequent aggression, in addition to armed aggression, also took armed immigrants as one of its means of aggression. So from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, a large number of Japanese expatriates lived in China. These Japanese nationals have also become the biggest accomplices of the Japanese invaders.

For example, during the September 18th Incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army in China at that time was only 65,438+100000, far less than the Northeast Army. Therefore, in order to rapidly expand its strength, the Japanese Kwantung Army armed Japanese expatriates in the northeast, so that the number of the Kwantung Army quickly expanded to more than 20,000. With the help of these armed Japanese expatriates, the Japanese Kwantung Army annexed the whole northeast of China.

Japan Pioneer Group

Especially after the all-out war of aggression against China in the future, Japanese began to immigrate to China in large numbers. By the time Japan was defeated in 1945, there were more than 2 million Japanese nationals living in China. There are 1.66 million Japanese immigrants in the northeast of China, including more than 1.00 pioneering groups and more than 300,000 agricultural immigrants.

The distribution of Japanese entrepreneurial groups

Then, after Japan's defeat, where did more than 1.6 thousand Japanese immigrants located in the northeast of China finally go? The first batch and most of them returned to Japan. I have to say that the people of China are absolutely the kindest people in the world, and they return good for evil. Although the Japanese invaders brought unprecedented sufferings to the people of China, after Japan surrendered, these immigrants who were accomplices of the Japanese invaders did not suffer large-scale retaliation, but returned to Japan.

Prisoners of war and expatriates who will be repatriated after Japan's defeat

Since 1946, after China and the United States reached an agreement, a large number of Japanese in China began to be repatriated to Japan, while Japanese expatriates in Northeast China were mainly repatriated from Huludao. It took more than seven months to repatriate Japanese prisoners of war and Japanese expatriates 1 10,000 people through Huludao. At this point, most Japanese expatriates in the Northeast returned to Japan.

Japanese prisoners of war

Second, they were adopted by China people. Most adopted Japanese refugees are Japanese orphans who have lost their parents. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, more than 4,500 Japanese orphans were adopted by Chinese mothers. Many of these great Chinese mothers even had their husbands and children killed by the Japanese, but these people gave up their hatred and adopted and raised Japanese orphans.

The third part, stay in China. Some Japanese nationals and prisoners of war who have not returned to Japan are women. They were worried that the ruined Japanese could not survive, so they stayed in China and married the Japanese. Some skilled technicians joined the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces and became the technical backbone of factories and troops in the liberated areas.