Searching for peace -- Japan's lost war children in China
For Gao Fengqin, the worst horror of the Second World War happened in the closing days.
"I still remember the day my mother took me to a small restaurant to meet my new Chinese mother," says Gao Fengqin, now 70.
"I had noodles and when I finished, she stood up to leave. I gripped her leg, crying for her not to go."
It was 65 years ago that Gao's Japanese mother, Kobayasi, gave her away to the Chinese couple who raised her into adulthood.
Gao was one of thousands of Japanese children abandoned in China and adopted by Chinese families in the aftermath of the war.
In late 1931, Japan started its armed colonization of northeast China, which had fallen under its control earlier that year.
Gao's birth father died shortly after the family arrived in China, when Gao was too young to remember. Later Kobayasi remarried to a Chinese man, and, for an unknown reason, gave her birth daughter away....
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"I still remember the day my mother took me to a small restaurant to meet my new Chinese mother," says Gao Fengqin, now 70.
"I had noodles and when I finished, she stood up to leave. I gripped her leg, crying for her not to go."
It was 65 years ago that Gao's Japanese mother, Kobayasi, gave her away to the Chinese couple who raised her into adulthood.
Gao was one of thousands of Japanese children abandoned in China and adopted by Chinese families in the aftermath of the war.
In late 1931, Japan started its armed colonization of northeast China, which had fallen under its control earlier that year.
Gao's birth father died shortly after the family arrived in China, when Gao was too young to remember. Later Kobayasi remarried to a Chinese man, and, for an unknown reason, gave her birth daughter away....