Michiko (2018)

Children Born of War (CBOW) are children fathered by foreign soldiers and born to local mothers. The physical and social impact of armed conflict on children is immense; particularly so, if these children are associated with the “enemy”. In addition, evidence suggests that children born of war have been and continue to be a major obstacle to successful integration of both their mothers and themselves into post-conflict societies.

Michiko is an animation based on the research of Kanako Kuramitsu, an early stage PhD researcher with the Children Born of War Network, based at the University of Birmingham. Her work examines "Forgotten Voices of Children Born of War during and after the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)”.