Thursday, September 20, 2012

"he preached Christ in the synagogues" - Relatives of the Last Emperor in the US

Tokyo Tramcar...

Relatives of the Last Emperor in the US

A Japanese woman was born in the US in 1917, so that she was given US citizenship.

But as her Japanese father committed a suicide, she returned to Japan with her mother and other family before WWII.

Then in Tokyo she met a grandson of the prime minister of Manchuko.
Manchukuo was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy. The region was the historical homeland of the Manchus, who founded the Qing Empire in China. In 1931, the region was seized by Japan following the Mukden Incident and in 1932, a sympathetic government was established, with Puyi, the last Qing emperor, installed as the nominal regent and emperor.[1] Manchukuo's government was abolished in 1945 after the defeat of Imperial Japan at the end of World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchukuo
The man she married had an elder brother who married a younger sister of the Emperor of Manchukuo, namely the last emperor of China and the first emperor of Manchukuo.

When the Empire of Japan surrendered to the US and pulled out all the Imperial troops from China, Manchurian, and the Korean Peninsula, the great civil war was set off in China between communists led by Mao Tse-tung and nationalists led by Chiang Kaishek.

With this turmoil further going on, the Japanese woman who had moved to Beijing with her husband and daughter felt danger on herself who was Manchu (Chinese), Japanese, and also American.   Her husband and his relatives lost power they had enjoyed in Manchukuo as the Chinese Communist Party occupied the region north of Beijing.

In addition, all the Americans who came to live in Beijing and other part of China after the surrender of the Empire of Japan decided to leave China as the Chinese Nationalist Party the US supported militarily was losing the civil war.  So, the Japanese woman with the US citizenship decided to leave Beijing for Japan with other Americans to avoid capture by Chinese communists.

When Mao Tse-tund declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, there were almost no Americans in China, including the Japanese American woman.

In Japan she decided to divorce, since there was no perspective of the situation in China changing for her benefit.  And, as she started to work in the General Headquarters of allied forces led by US General MacArthur in Tokyo, she met an American officer to marry him.

Then, she and her husband went back to the US; the American Occupation of Japan also ended.

Decades later, she found that her daughter having been left in China wanted to see her.  It was the era of President Nixon, and the relationship between the US and China was getting improved over the Cold War.

So, she made the best effort to call to the US her daughter and her husband with their daughter.  But it was help from her brother working in New Jersey that actually found the way to take her daughter out of communist China through Hong Kong.  It was also advantageous for them that then Chinese Premier Chou En-lai had promoted a special diplomatic measure to keep useful Chinese in society of Western countries, such as the US.

However, the American husband of the Japanese American woman got ill and died at the time.  Then her Chinese daughter came to the US.  The husband of the daughter started to work in a firm the brother of the Japanese American woman ran in New Jersey.

So, in the US since the era of President Nixon, some relatives of the Last Emperor of China have been living, though they are actually Japanese or half Japanese.



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Act 9:20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.