Japanese orphans in China
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Japanese orphans in China consist primarily of children left behind by Japanese families repatriating from Northeast China (then Manchukuo) to Japan in the aftermath of World War II. For the most part, they were taken in by Chinese families and raised with no knowledge of their Japanese ancestry.
In 1981, nine years after the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations and more than three decades after Japan's surrender at the end of WWII, the Japanese government began an assistance programme aimed at reuniting the orphans with their biological parents in Japan; however, as the orphans had spent almost their entire lives in China and many had little memory of their Japanese family, they experienced difficulty integrating into Japanese society.
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