Editing Second Sino-Japanese War (section)

===Japanese women left in China===
{{Main|Japanese people in China}}

Several thousand Japanese who were sent as colonizers to Manchukuo and Inner Mongolia were left behind in China. The majority of these were women, and they married mostly Chinese men and became known as "stranded war wives" (zanryu fujin).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://japanfocus.org/-Rowena-Ward/2374/article.html|title=Left Behind: Japan's Wartime Defeat and the Stranded Women of Manchukuo|work=The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus|date=March 2007 |access-date=13 August 2016|archive-date=12 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112110754/http://japanfocus.org/-Rowena-Ward/2374/article.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fDCsD-1zitUC&pg=PA59 Mackerras 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012014429/https://books.google.com/books?id=fDCsD-1zitUC&pg=PA59 |date=12 October 2022 }}, p. 59.</ref>