That "mama" was amazing, daughter of the Mitsubishi fortune. She sure put it to good use, bless her. What one person can do to change so many lives.

I was born to a Japanese mother in Tokyo 1958. I lived with her until age 5. I was adopted by American parents and came to the U.S. My mother never prepared me. The day I was turned over to my new parents I was brought to an office building and told to wait until she walked away down the hall. I never saw her again. My adoptive parents told me the same thing she put me up for adoption because of the prejudice I would face. I don’t exhibit many Asian features I look Caucasian. Never had any issues living in America. People are very surprised when I tell them I’m half Japanese.

My wife is a child of GI who worked for MacArthur and a Japanese mother. She is very fortunate because my father in law married my mother in law and brought both my mother in law and my wife to USA where they stayed married and succeeded in life against bigotry and other obstacles. Many of the Japanese war brides who did make it to the USA were abandoned by their GI husbands. For those children who were abandoned, life was very difficult. My wife observed some of them in late 1960s sweeping streets.

That tunnel run is so sad and such a shared experience for those kids. It reminds me of spirited away… how you can be in one world, and then suddenly your life is totally different and confusing.

Man imagine getting dropped off at the abandonment tunnel

Tony seems like such a good dude. I wanna give him a hug

Yes, many of them, during Korean War, Vietnam War too.

This was absolutely heartbreaking. I was a teacher of mixed-raced children in Okinawa. It was tough to see. As a half German and half English growing up between the two countries, we experienced a feeling of being abandoned by each county. Never German enough and never English enough. That’s the hard part.

For those who got married at that time with mix-cultures were brave. Considered what happened between two countries just few years ago. For those who was abandoned, it was a tragic because children are innocent by their birth race.

What a wonderful school at the end! The students look happy and confident.

Those children are absolutely beautiful. Every single one of them.

My father was in the army and stationed in Japan during the occupation (1946 to about 1950). He was in his late teens and was a little on the wild side. Ive always wondered if he fathered any children while there. Is there somewhere where i could look into this?

People are so strange and toxic in their ignorance. Those who mistreated these children would be horrified to find themselves in a similar situation.

I'm Japanese-Brazilian and Miki Sawada's story is pretty well-known among the Japanese community. Especially because she left Japan in the early 1960s with a number of her orphans to naively found an self-sustaining utopia in the Amazon jungle. With disastrous results I must add. Still one remarkable woman who did good with her fortune.

British, Canadians and Australians left children behind.

Roberto Duran the Famous boxer was the child of a former U.S. Marine stationed in Panama.

This report makes me choked up 😭

It’s happen in every conflict

A famous actor in Japan Kusakari Masao was also half Japanese and half American. His Japanese mother kept him but faced prejudice and was otracized. He only found his American family last year by NHK.

Great report!

Josephine Baker adopted kids from Elizabeth Saunders Home and she also donated a lot. What a wonderful lady and I love her.

What's messed up about this, for those who would've liked to have lived in the U.S. who weren't adopted, is the Amerasian Homecoming Act excluded kids who were born in Japan and the Philippines. WHY?! Doesn't make any sense.

Great report. Thank you

American GI's left abandoned women & children all over the world. There are probably cases, wherever a US military base is.

wonderful video. Thank you so much.

My great grandfather and great grandmother also met during the war but in Italy. My great grandfather was a British soldier stationed there and then he met a young Italian woman. My great auntie was born in Italy during the war then when all the soldiers were returning home, my great grandmother illegally immigrated with them. My Nana was born in England and grew up very English. My great grandmother never taught her daughters Italian despite the fact she could barely speak English, I think it was because she didn’t want people to perceive her daughters as foreigners. Unlike the Japanese children, my Nana and great auntie didn’t face problems due to race as both countries were European and my great grandfather never abandoned them so I think they were quite lucky. From my understanding, many Italians didn’t support the Italian government during the war, so I think the prejudice wouldn’t have been so bad hopefully. It’s crazy to think about how manny similar stories there probably are from across the globe. So many children abandoned by their military fathers. I live in New Zealand now and during the war there was American soldiers stationed here and many of them had relationships with kiwi women then abandoned them also. I hope all those children were able to find loving homes and grow up happy.

Interesting and compelling.

Is there one of these videos on the mixed children of French soldiers and Vietnamese women?

Good story about a loving Mama.

The same thing happened during the Korean and Vietnam War. Heartbreaking. 😢

I used to work with Paul Iiyama in the 90s when he worked for a large Japanese food distributor.

I am a 76yo pure bred English born man and I have no tolerance at all for racial discrimination, as so did my parents. I have people of many races and colours married into my extended family and ALL are equal to the white family members. Having lived in Australia for the last 56 years I now have friends of many different ethnic backgrounds and religions. All have equal standing with my Australian family. My hope is that the World learns that all people are equal regardless of their background. Thank you for bringing this video to us to help progress this hope.

American watching from the State of Rhode Island in the U.S.-wow great/interesting story guys-never knew of it before-always great content guys-Peace.

All the allied troops left babies behind during WW2. Americans, British, French, and Soviets.

Crazy how this still happens

God bless the Elizabeth Saunders home. We need to love people with no discrimination based on origin, language or skin colour.

9:25 Wow! Granny definitely had a type! She gave up one kid for adoption (or more), married an American man, and never tried to find out about the child she abandoned. I guess she never told her new family that she had another child! Quite impressive!

Only registered in the US consulate in Japan. There were antimiscegenation laws in the US, they could not get marriage licenses, and they were practically just sex slaves.

I am half Japanese, born to a Japanese mother & an American GI(Marine). My father married my mother when I was 5 months old much to the dismay of the Marine Corp. We came to the USA in 1958. It was difficult growing up as a half Japanese child, but I think it would have been more difficult in Japan.

I am lost for words.

My Great Uncle married a Japanese lovely lady and brought her to the United States. My uncles side of the family treated her well and protected her from the bigotry then. She was the sweetest woman and treated us all well.

what about the french soldiers kids in north africa and SE asia.

It must've been hard growing up for them as children.

God bless these humans go have had to deal with that abandonment.

Same as during the Vietnam war, many Vietnamese women were pregnant by American soldiers.

I’m Brazilian and my father was a Japanese who immigrated to Brazil after 1960 just post war years. He told me that the Japanese children born from the Black soldiers and Japanese women were sent abroad for adoption because at that time the Japanese society would not accept them in Japan. There are many mixed children left behind In Okinawa by the American soldiers. I went there and I saw some “hafu” or half which means mixed kids in Japan. They look mixed but they’re Japanese. The governor of Okinawa is one.

GIs are still abandoning mothers and kids today. I live near Yokota and this happens often.

I think this happens now all over the world by many countries and I see it all the time here in Japan too

The same thing happened with my father in Australia, his father was a US soldier and left my grandmother.

The aftermath of war… 😞

The same thing happened in Australia, England and more with mixed race children. Today, they can use Familial Genetic Search.

Please make a movie about this please 🙏

1. BOMBASTIC SIDE EYE 2. On a more serious note, Mama Sanders had a big heart. Goodness bless every heart she touched. May her blessing reverberate for many generations.

Racisme is unfortunaly everywhere in the world also in Japan. The world is not a perfect place. We are all humans with red blood

My late wife Yoshiko and I were married in Tokyo in 1958. We spent 50 wonderful years Together and had 2 sons.

JFC that Japanese guy is 60 and looks two decades younger than the American two. 🤣

To say Japanese society is insular is a vast understatement. Look up KZfaqr "Ask Shogo" he's got some heartrending episodes about how badly he was treated in Japan as a 100% Japanese who merely spent *some* years of his childhood in the US.

Reminds me of the story of Junichiro Hill. The son of Cotton Hill and Michiko.

My grandfather brought my grandmother back to the us. I remember being told when my dad decided to marry my mom that his parents werent happy about her being half japanese at first.

Beautiful people

Same happened with German soldiers and French women bearing their children..public humiliation was quite common for those women

They are not orphans have both parents dead, these are abandoned children whose mothers were spurned by there families and society.

Crazy that these children born from US GI's from World War II are in their '80s now.

I would love to find my Japanese cousin. We know his name but not sure how to find him. Our uncle was with J Force from NZ.

When stationed in Korea our unit sponsored an orphanage; and of the 400 kids living there not a single one was fathered by a GI, yet embedded Korean soldiers refused to aid in any tasks for the orphanage: their reason these are mixed kids.

And UK soldiers are doing this in Kenya

😢😭

The United States Military should add this Slogan to their Brand: “Have Sperm Will Travel”.

I tell you what that woman called Mom I cannot pronounce the rest of it sounds like a woman of Great character

Dude I'm the middle kinda looks like Stan Lee or hefner

Did this channel do a video about the children born from the rapes that their soldiers committed in Algeria?

God bless from the Philippines 🥰💟🙏

A lot of us are born because of the 2nd world war both my grandfathers fought my maternal one was in Egypt firstly against the Italian army that was probably rough the Italians fighting in these parts were hardened from the war in Ethiopia my grandfather later was station in Back then British Palastine Jerusalem where he met my Greek Grandmother who was born in Jerusalem, my other grandfather fought as a R.A.F. Sgt pilot his task and the 1st Sgt Adam Mcraig was to fly over France and go to Germany to bomb I believe munitions factories over in Mannerheim, I think he achieved what was asked but on the way back through France the plane had sustained damage and the main pilot Mccraig wanted to do an emergency landing over France my Grandfather said we should just fly back to England we could make it but nah was not my grandfather's call most the men wanted to emergency crash land so landed in St Omer and all 6 survived the crash and I don't know if they were immediately caught by German forces but they got send to a war camp first in France but from him and the other mens escape attempts which was at least twice before they got pushed from France war came and got put in a war camp in Poland as I understand it.

Fast forward to what's happening today. When a Japanese spouse abducts their child from the foreign spouse. I'm an American and I recently had this happen to me with my daughter. I did not abandon my child and love her very much. Her mother had taken my daughter and cut communications after empting our bank account in Japan. I was forced to leave Japan. I have not seen my daughter for 2 months. She is 9 months old now.

He really looks like a mexican, colombian or peruan. But seems like such a sweet guy i hope he the best. Its cool to see how mixing ethecities can make you appear as a complete different ethenicty

Fortunately this tragic story was not repeated in Afghanistan or Iraq.

The British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) was assigned to Japan from 1945 to 1952. It was composed of soldiers & sailors from UzK, Australia, New Zealand, and India. At one point 40,000 Commonwealth troops could be found in southern Japan demobilizing military industries. By 1948, BCOF was primarily Australian units. Fraternization with Japanese women was more restricted than with US troops, but a number of Aussies married Japanese women and published books about their relationships. Undoubtedly there were also “Hafu” children born to unmarried Japanese mothers in southern Honshu & Shikoku where BCOFwas quartered.

We cannot be judged for the sins of others, nor for what our ancestors have done. Only for our own acts are we responsible, our acts, and whatever influence we may have on the affairs of the world. Having said that, I wish to God that our people had done better than this. This is pain that rips through the center of childrens' hearts and souls. I pray to whatever gods there are that I may never, ever, cause suffering like this...

Mixed race children are so beautiful and special, they should be proud and reap the benefits of belonging to two diverse cultures.

2024 Philippines love japan.

Soldiers and abandoning children overseas. Name a more iconic duo!

Nice to see a happy school of Amerasian children in Okinawa. 75% of US armed forces are stationed there, so mixed relationships between soldiers & local women, then as now, are not uncommon. 😺

That man´s father had strong native american genes

They are very good looking.

Masao's father must be from South America fo sure.

Instead of saying 'many' why doing you give atleast ball park figures?

I'm not crying!!! I'm doing face exercises godamn it!

Wow he doesn’t look 61 to be fair

Now do orphans from Japanese soilders in ww2 there’s has to be a lot more

That’s so tragic in a way that American men servicemen Mary over there and then when the water is all or some of them go but the majority of them stay it’s not right, but who am I to say?

Konketsuji isn't used in Japan anymore, except in private conversations, and really shouldn't be used in a documentary like this except to point out it's a bad label for us mixlings, in this case, haafu (ハーフ).

It pains me so much to be reminded of the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of some people. There are indeed different cultures, different countries, languages, religions, mindsets and personalities but there is only ONE HUMAN RACE and we’re all part of it, regardless of pigmentation! Treat others the same way you want to be treated.

Shame on these American men who presently abandon their children in Okinawa. If the military doesn’t have rules to enforce child support, it should.

Every War has them..

We are all mixed , nobody is pure

I need to go to Japan 😂

Ancestry is the best to test by, The most members too. 🙂

When will we realize, "One Race, the Human race'. 😇

one earth

It is ludicrous that half Japanese still face such discrimination today. There are quite a few hapas representing Japan in judo like Aaron Wolf and Sanshiro Murao. You also have Christa Deguchi who is half Canadian who represents Canada but could have easily played for Japan if things had gone differently.