Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Japanese word list; Chinese word list; Individual informant list; Family informant list; Prologue: Who are they?; 1 Approaches to the study of zanryu-hojin; Part I Structures: Zanryu-hojin acting passively in response to social changes; 2 Zanryu-hojin within the flow of historical change; 3 Personhoods formed in rural Northeast China; 4 Repatriation since 1972; Part II Families: Relationships within zanryu-hojin families over a transnational space; 5 Three family accounts; 6 Family in transition
Summary
This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan's puppet state in Manchuria ended.€€It examines their eventual repatriation, alongside issues of war memory and war guilt, and the worldviews of the zanryu-hojin, alongside Japanese society and its anti-war social movements
