After Japan's surrender in 1945, more than 4,000 Japanese children were left behind in China and raised by Chinese foster parents. They share a common name: Japanese "war orphans" in China. At the age 19, Kunihiro Kanou first learned of his identity as a Japanese orphan. He described his feelings at the time as "shocked," "empty," and "lonely." Rather than struggling to accept his Japanese identity, he was more unwilling to accept that he was not Chinese. In those years of food scarcity, Kanou's
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