A book exploring the history of young people from the colonies who were mobilized into the Japanese Imperial Army. - Title: Korean Soldiers of the Northern Units - Author: Michiko Kitahara - Publisher: Gendaikikakushitsu - Language: Japanese - Published: 2014/3/26 From conscription and enlistment to repatriation and internment after the war, this book traces the reality of Korean soldiers mobilized in the Northern Units (Karafuto, Chishima, Hokkaido) using the "Absentee Rosters" of the Japanese Imperial Army as a clue. "How many young people from the Korean Peninsula were mobilized into the Japanese army during the Asia-Pacific War?" This book is the result of over 20 years of careful investigation and research, starting from a question that arose by chance. From each name of the Korean youths recorded in the unpublished Japanese military rosters, unknown facts related to the war and colonial rule are revealed one after another. Michiko Kitahara Born in Tokyo in 1947. In the early 1970s, she began to study the Korean language and Korean history and culture at the "Kobe Mukuge no Kai." She has been studying the Korean language at the "Gendaigogakujuku" from the mid-1970s to the present. Since the 1990s, she has been researching Korean soldiers mobilized in the former Japanese Imperial Army units in Karafuto, Chishima, and Hokkaido, and has been conducting interviews with former soldiers in South Korea and other places. She is a member of the Association for the Study of the History of the Korean Residents in Japan. Thank you for viewing. This is the first edition, first printing. This is a truly remarkable work that I was deeply moved by. It has not been reprinted, and it is becoming difficult to obtain.