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Children left behind by Japanese troops in 1945 tell how 'ordinary Chinese families' raised them

A tour to meet "ordinary Chinese families" who provided extraordinary care to thousands of children left behind by Japanese troops in 1945 left many in tears on Wednesday at a meeting in Beijing between China's vice-president and some of the survivors.

"Unfortunately, we are the victims of that war. But we are also the lucky survivors, and witnesses of history," Sumie Ikeda, head of the delegation of the Japanese who were left behind as children and raised in China, told Vice-President Li Yuanchao at the meeting at the Great Hall of the People.