4K | Abandoned by Japan, raised in China: War orphans' ashes nowhere to rest, life-long journey home

🇯🇵🇨🇳 自1904年起，日本于中国东北地区展开了近三十年的系统性殖民计划。此后的三十多年间，约三十万日本普通农民在国家政策推动下迁往中国东北，参与所谓“开拓团”的定居计划。
1945年日本战败并无条件投降，大批日籍平民——尤其是这些开拓团成员——被政府遗弃，滞留中国，甚至于1959年被日本政府单方面宣布“死亡”。
其中近五千名日本儿童在战后失去双亲，由中国家庭无私收养，展现出中华民族超越战争伤痛的宽容与人性之光。

📺 本集纪录片深入追踪战后四十年间，日本“残留孤儿”群体在返回日本、重获国籍过程中的重重困境。这一特殊人群承载着战争与文化的双重印记，在重归日本社会时面临制度性忽略、身份认同迷茫与社会歧视的多重挑战。
他们被迫徘徊于两个国度之间，追寻一个没有答案的问题：何为故乡？何为异乡？

🇯🇵🇨🇳 Beginning in 1904, Japan initiated a systematic colonial project in Northeast China that spanned nearly three decades. Over the following thirty-plus years, approximately 300,000 Japanese civilians, predominantly farmers, were relocated to the region under state-sponsored settlement initiatives known as the “Pioneer Emigration Plan.”
In 1945, following Japan’s unconditional surrender, vast numbers of these Japanese settlers—particularly those affiliated with the emigration program—were abandoned by their government and stranded in China. Many were even declared “deceased” unilaterally by the Japanese authorities in 1959.
Amid the turmoil, nearly 5,000 Japanese children who lost their parents were compassionately adopted by Chinese families—a profound testament to humanity’s capacity to transcend the scars of war.

📺 This documentary traces, over four postwar decades, the protracted and painful journey of the “Japanese Orphans Left in China” as they struggled to return to Japan and reclaim their citizenship.Caught between two cultures and haunted by the legacy of war, they faced institutional neglect, social discrimination, and a deeply fractured sense of identity.Their lives became a silent questioning—a search for answers that never came: What is home? And what is exile?
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