4K | Raised in China, hated by Japan: War orphans called 'welfare burden', identity crisis deepens

🇯🇵🇨🇳 1931年起，日本在中国东北推行谋划了近30年的殖民计划。近30万日本普通农民受政府号召，远渡重洋来到中国东北，试图在这里“开创新生活”。
然而，1945年日本战败投降，这些移民成了被祖国遗忘的人——滞留在异国，真相迟来，归途无望。
其中，近5000名日本儿童在战乱中失去双亲，最终被中国家庭收养，成为中日双重历史背景下成长的一代。

📺 八十年未愈的战争伤痕：本期纪录片揭开日本“残留孤儿”群体跨越四代的身份困境
战争虽已结束八十载，但其造成的创伤仍如暗流般持续涌动。
本期节目深入追踪二战结束后遭遗留中国的日本孤儿及其后代，揭示战争如何跨越世纪持续撕裂自我认同与家族记忆。
第一代孤儿已至风烛之年，而他们的子女乃至孙辈，至今仍深陷认同迷思与历史阴影之中。血统与文化的割裂、官方的沉默与社会的疏离，让这个群体在八十年来始终未能真正“回归”。

“我是中国人吗？不完全是。是日本人吗？也不是。”——战争结束近八十年后，历史的回响仍未平息，身份的裂缝仍在延续。

🇯🇵🇨🇳 Japan’s 30-Year Colonial Project & Its Human Legacy
Since 1931, Japan carried out a premeditated 30-year colonial expansion into Northeast China. Around 300,000 Japanese farmers relocated to the region under government encouragement, seeking a “new life.”
After Japan’s defeat in 1945, these settlers were abandoned—stranded in China, unaware of the truth, with no hope of return.
Nearly 5,000 Japanese children, orphaned by the war, were adopted by Chinese families—growing up between two worlds, shaped by both nations’ histories.

📺 Eighty Years of Unhealed Wounds: A Documentary
Though the war ended 80 years ago, its trauma continues to ripple across generations.
This film traces the stories of Japan’s “left-behind orphans” and their descendants—individuals caught between identities, nations, and memories.
The first generation is now aging, yet their children and grandchildren still struggle with belonging, rejected by a homeland that forgot them and bound to a history that defined them.
“Am I Chinese? Not quite.Am I Japanese? Not really.”—Eight decades on, the question remains.
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