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The Oral History of a Japanese Soldier in Manchuria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Oguma Eiji
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Extract

This is an excerpt from “Return from Siberia: A Japanese Life in War and Peace, 1925-2015”. The book, which was published in May 2018, is based on a series of interviews with a Japanese man who was born in 1925 and served in the Japanese army before being interned in Siberia following Japan's surrender at the end of World War II. This excerpt describes his experience as a soldier in Manchuria and his journey to Siberia after being conscripted into the army in November 1944.

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Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 19 , October 2018 , e2
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Copyright © The Authors 2018

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Notes

1 Handō Kazutoshi, Soren ga Manshū ni shinkōshita natsu (Bungei Shunjū, 2002), pp. 231-32.

2 Nakanishi Rei, Akai tsuki, vol. 1 (Shinchōsha, 2003), pp. 57-59.

3 Handō, Soren ga, p. 354.

4 Handō Kazutoshi, Soren ga Manshū ni shinkōshita natsu (Bungei Shunjū, 2002), pp. 231-32.

5 Nakanishi Rei, Akai tsuki, vol. 1 (Shinchōsha, 2003), pp. 57-59.

6 Handō, Soren ga, p. 354.

7 Kwantung Army General Headquarters, “Washirefusukii [Vasilevsky] gensui ni tai- suru hōkoku,” 29 August 1945. Cited in Horyo taiken ki, vol. 1, Rekishi, sōshū hen, ed. Soren ni Okeru Nihonjin Horyo no Seikatsu Taiken o Kirokusuru Kai (Soren ni Okeru Nihonjin Horyo no Seikatsu Taiken o Kirokusuru Kai, 1998), p. 371.

8 “Hokuryō [Beiling] kara Maizuru made,” Chita-kai kaihō 3 (1982), pp. 29-32. According to the appended note, this chronology (which covers from September 1945 to August 1948) was compiled at a 1981 meeting of the group based on a draft by Kenji recording his own recollections, which the other members worked together to expand.