Record of the Repatriation of Three Million Japanese POWs and Japanese Civilians

Author: Mei Sangyu
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: "The policy of Japanese militarism's invasion of China not only caused great harm to the Chinese people but also deeply affected ordinary Japanese people. Think about how the Chinese treated you, and then think about how you treated the Chinese." After the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, over three million Japanese prisoners of war and civilians were detained in China! With the impact of the post-war turmoil, how many thrilling and heart-stirring stories did over three million Japanese prisoners and civilians experience? Although the Chinese authorities, without holding grudges, showed great humanitarian spirit in their lenient policies toward Japanese prisoners of war and took active measures to repatriate them, many stories still left people sighing: the Japanese army, in despair after defeat, burned military camps, hid weapons, and committed rape and murder; prisoners of war committed mass suicide or escaped; tens of thousands of female Japanese civilians desperately searched for their husbands, and lovers were separated in a foreign land; repatriation ships exploded at sea. This documentary work uses a wealth of historical facts to objectively recreate the fate of Japanese war criminals, the outcomes of prisoners of war, and the destinies of Japanese civilians; it reveals the various behind-the-scenes stories of three million Japanese prisoners and civilians from internment camps to repatriation, many of which remain little-known.