JAPAN'S WAR ORPHANS - Abandoned Three Times: By Government, Society, and History When #Japan signed its surrender in #Nanjing in 1945, its forces and officials fled Northeast #China. State-backed pioneer corps settlers were left behind, and more than 4,000 of their children became stranded Japanese orphans—abandoned by the very government that had sent their families to colonize the region. Their life has been marked by three waves of abandonment by the Japanese government. Back in their homelan