The Japanese attitude toward these soldiers, who had fought for Japan but were accepted by a "hostile" China, was that they had ceased to be Japanese and were therefore no longer Japan's to care for. Meanwhile, the Nationalist government saw them as enemies of the Chinese people who had assisted a foreign nation during wartime.
這一群為日本出征，卻被「敵對」中國所接收的老兵，日本那邊認為「你已不再是日本人了，不應由我們照顧，」國民政府這邊則認為「你為異族出征，和中國人民為敵，」最後落得兩邊都不是，成為無人照料的時代棄子。