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Never let the truth get in the way of a good propaganda drubbing...

In my last spleen vent/money shot, I took China to task for their incessant scapegoating of Japan, centered around a tag line on a promotional poster for a TV show about the Huludao reparation of Japanese citizens to Japan from China after WW2 and what a magnanimous thing it was for China to do.

I was stupid enough to look it up. Ignorance is bliss.Look what Wikipedia says:**** The Japanese Repatriation from Huludao (Japanese: 葫芦島在留日本人大送還 or simplified Chinese: 葫芦岛日侨大遣返) refers to sending back to Japan the Japanese people who were left in Northeast China after the end of World War II in 1945. In this operation, done by the American forces' ships under the auspices of the Republic of China government, over one million Japanese were carried back to their homeland, from 1946 to 1948.

Immediately after the end of World War II in August, 1945, about 1.5 million Japanese people were left in China, the largest majority of which were in Northeast China, mostly farmers and merchants.[1] Some of the able-bodied men among them were being sent by the Soviet forces to Siberia for forced labor and still other engineers and medical doctors were beginning to be asked for cooperation by the Chinese Communist forces.

To this situation, the Japanese government did almost nothing in the confusion right after the defeat of the war. The American forces which were assisting the Chinese Nationalist government sensed this dangerous situation and sent ships on a tripartite operation to:

 * carry Chinese soldiers from Southern China to north in Huludao, for reinforcement

 * repatriate Japanese to Hakata Port, Fukuoka City, Japan

 * transport to China the Chinese people who had worked in Japan mostly under forced labor

Huludao in Liaoning Province at that time was the only strategic seaport and corridor to Northeast China, held by the Nationalist forces, which were battling against the Chinese Communist forces for the control of Northeast China.

From May 7, 1946, when this operation began, till August, 1948, when it ended as Huludao was under pressure from the Communist forces, about 1,050,000 Japanese people were repatriated. Many had died in Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang during the 1945-46 winter before this operation began. Those who reached Huludao in the worst conditions, but died there, were buried in the nearby Cishan mountain (simplified Chinese: 茨山), in their simplest tombs facing east, towards the direction of their homeland.

A stele commemorating this event in the Sino-Japanese history stands on the seaport in Huludao. It cannot be easily visited because its location is in the restricted area, due to Huludao being a strategic submarine base in China.**** So what did China (at least in terms of its current government) actually do in the Huludao reparation? The same thing people here do in the bathroom.

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