The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945-1956 by Andrew E. Barshay

The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945-1956

Andrew E. Barshay

256 pages • first pub 2013 (view editions)

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At the time of Japan’s surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow ...

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