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Child survivor of forced mass suicide in Manchuria still loves hero who saved her

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Ichikawa Miako
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[Beginning in the 1980s, Japan began repatriating thousands of Japanese who remained in China, many of them adopted by Chinese families, six decades ago when Japan was defeated and hundreds of thousands of farmer settlers were abandoned by fleeing Japanese soldiers. This is the story of one survivor. Japan Focus]

Harada Ikuko is haunted by the day she was marked for death. It was August 1945, and she was among a group of 200 Japanese in northeastern China fleeing the advancing Russian army.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 8 , August 2005 , e32
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