Japanese repatriation from Huludao

Over one million Japanese were taken back to Japan from 1946 to 1948 by the American forces' ships under the auspices of the Republic of China government.

Three young men from Anshan (Kunio Maruyama, Hachiro Shimpo and Masamichi Musashi) volunteered to report the situation to Japan and met with the Japanese government in Tokyo.

They later met with General Douglas MacArthur, then the head of the Allied Occupation Forces, who immediately decided on Japanese repatriation through Huludao.

From May 7, 1946 (when the 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.

Those who reached Huludao and died there were buried in the nearby Cishan mountain (Chinese: 茨山), in simple tombs facing east, toward their homeland.