This item is from my home collection. It is in very good condition, but being old, there is some aging on the cover, etc. I would appreciate it if those who understand this would consider purchasing it. Women's Siberian Internment by Chihiro Koyanagi Japanese women were interned in Siberia! Breaking over seventy years of silence, the women who were former prisoners of war have testified for the first time in this remarkable non-fiction work. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Women in Siberia Chapter 2: The Military Nurses of Manchuria Chapter 3: To Siberia Chapter 4: Why Were They Sent to Siberia? Chapter 5: Prolonged Internment Chapter 6: "Female Prisoners" Chapter 7: Repatriation Chapter 8: Anya, Who Did Not Return Shortly after the end of the war, nearly 600,000 Japanese, including military personnel and civilians in Manchuria and Sakhalin, were taken by the Soviet Union in what is known as "Siberian Internment." The fact that there were nearly a thousand female prisoners among them had long been buried in the shadows of history. Military nurses who worked in the Kwantung Army's military hospitals, typists, telephone operators, civilian women from pioneer groups, and prisoners were sent to Siberia, a land in the far north. Among them were women who spent more than 10 years in internment as "female prisoners," and some who had no place to return to in Japan and lived out their lives in a foreign land. Even for the women who managed to return home, the gaze of the people in their homeland was never warm. This is a full-fledged non-fiction work written by a female director who succeeded in interviewing the women who had maintained a long silence for over 70 years after the war. From a review: Although not the main focus of the Soviet internment, this book was a valuable work in showing the Soviet Union's loss of humanity in interning women. August 9, 1945. Believing that there would be no attack from the Soviet Union due to the existence of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, civilians living in the Soviet-Manchurian border area were suddenly attacked by Soviet bombers and ground troops such as tanks. The Japanese army disarmed on August 15 with the declaration of the end of the war, but as spoils of war, about 500,000 people were sent to Siberia for forced labor, and under those harsh conditions, 50,000, or one-tenth, lost their lives. Among the Japanese sent to Siberia were several thousand women. Military nurses, military personnel, telephone operators, civilians, and prisoners: nearly 1,000 women lived in internment camps in Siberia. Girls who endured internment in groups, former female prisoners who refused to return home, women who gave birth in the camps, and girls who were abducted by Soviet soldiers. This is what it means for women to be caught up in "war."