Abstract: In Early Postwar, in order to urge the Japanese government to return captive labors’ remains, Executive Committee of Mourning Chinese Prisoner Victims that was composed of 14 Japanese non governmental organizationscarried out investigations, held memorial activities and negotiated with the government. As a result, some of thecaptive labors’ remains were returned. Compared with thesenon governmental organizations,the Japanese government adopted perfunctory attitudes of “non recognition”, “inaction” and “anarchism”. The movement of returning captive labors’ remains have made positive effects on China Japan relationship normalization. Because of the special international situation and China Japan relationship in early postwar,returning captive labors’ remains gradually became a remnant of war problem.

Key words: captive labors, Executive Committee of Mourning Chinese Prisoner Victims, returning remains, ChinaJapan relationship