Uragashira Repatriation Park

A few miles away from the Hario Wireless Transmitting Station is a small hilltop museum dedicated to the people who passed through the Sasebo Regional Repatriation Center, where many Japanese came home after the war was over. It’s an aspect of the war that doesn’t see much print, but after the fighting stopped the men who did it had to be brought home. In even greater numbers, the civilian colonists had to return as well. Japan had built an empire and places such as Formosa (Taiwan) and Korea had been home to Japanese colonists for decades. During the thirties, many poor Japanese farmers were offered farmland in the puppet state of Manchuko (Manchuria, China) and left in hopes of creating a better life for themselves. Like many Americans a century prior, when told “go west, young man,” they did. Their country gambled on success, and in the end they personally lost nearly everything. Source: https://japan.stripes.com/travel/beginning-end-near-sasebo