Search by topic within "Japanese Soldier Repatriation after World War Two, as Seen in Archival Records"

You can search maps for documents related to repatriation of civilians and troops of the army and navy deployed overseas at the conclusion of the Second World War.

You can search for files from chronological tables that offer information on administration at the end of World War Two as well as information on institutions involved in repatriation and demobilization.
There is also information on imperial edicts, orders, and government organs.

You can browse references used in this exhibition, which include documents in the JACAR database touching on demobilization and repatriation from several organizations.

You can see information on the background of demobilization and repatriation.

Seventy years has passed since the official end of World War Two, although some 6.6 million Japanese were stranded overseas at its end.

Some 6.24 million military personnel and civilians abroad were repatriated to Japan by the end of 1947 and many documents in the JACAR database concern the details of this process.

With the JACAR glossary, you can easily browse official documents from institutions involved in the repatriation of civilians and troops abroad at the time of the end of World War Two.

You can search within records by brigade and with a variety of methods from map searches to those for organizational data and chronological tables.

The information online dates until 1947 and can't include some restricted documents,

for example, the documents relating to repatriation of detainees from Siberia are not covered.

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