In Japan, they are known as "children of mixed blood": those born after 1945 to an American GI and a Japanese woman and abandoned due to stigma. Eighty years after the end of World War II, we went to meet some of these orphans to understand more about their painful past.
From 1945 to 1952, when Japan was occupied by the United States following its surrender, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers were stationed there. Many had relationships with Japanese women, and rapes were also committed. Many Japanese women gave birth to mixed-race children.
