A woman born in China shortly after the war and left there as an infant by her Japanese family has come to Japan in search of relatives.
The woman, identified as Qu Meiqin, presumed to be 64, plans to meet Thursday with a man in Ibaraki Prefecture who may be her older brother.
She is the only person to be brought to Japan by the welfare ministry this fiscal year. The ministry began organizing trips to Japan in 1981 for war-displaced Chinese of Japanese descent.