title: Transethnic adoption and personality traits: a lesson from Japanese orphans returned from China to Japan.
abstract: The authors interviewed 25 Japanese who had been left as orphans in China at the end of World War II and who had recently returned to Japan with their Chinese spouses after almost four decades. It was found that even though they had been raised as Chinese culturally for almost their entire lives, most of these subjects had retained certain Japanese personality traits and social behavior from early childhood, and these characteristics distinguished them from their Chinese counterparts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Honolulu 96813.
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ebata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miguchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Egawa
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality