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

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 to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destro...

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