It's staggering to think that, at the end of the Pacific War, almost 7 million Japanese servicemen and civilians were awaiting repatriation in various parts of Asia.
Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers, by Yoshikuni Igarashi.320 pagesCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, Nonfiction.
That figure makes sense in light of the considerable size of the Japanese empire, which then stretched from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands, from Burma to Manchuria and Hong Kong.
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