The role of private charities in repatriation from the Japanese Empire

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In 2022 the main research achievements were two peer reviewed articles in international journals and two online conference presentations. ‘End of Empire Migration as Evacuation and Individual Flight: The Far North of the Japanese Empire, 1945-1947’ is about the action taken by former colonial residents from Karafuto (Sakhalin) to differentiate their circumstances from the media-driven image of the Manchurian repatriate figure. ‘National Belonging and the Production of Neglect in the Japanese Repatriate Figure, 1945-1950’ is about how government policy towards former colonial residents led to a flattening of experiences into a standardised explanation of ‘the repatriate’. This affected how former colonial residents sought to use repatriate identity in their encounters with officials.