"Manchurian Refugees: Lives Blocked by the 38th Parallel" Takuya Inoue Price: ¥2,090 New, Unused #TakuyaInoue #Books #BOOK #Nonfiction #Education #WarBooks On August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union entered the war. To escape the Soviet army's invasion, 1,094 Japanese people evacuated from Hsinking, the capital of Manchukuo, to the small town of Koksan in northern Korea. Insufficient food. Harsh winters. People suffered from hunger, cold, and infectious diseases, and children died one after another.