The Engagement of the repatriated writers in post-war Japan This article studies the postwar phase of repatriates who are being integrated into Japanese society, and sheds new light on the nationalism of postwar Japan. To this end, this study reviews various discourses surrounding the repatriation project and examines the existential consciousness of repatriates in postwar Japanese society. In particular, it presents an analysis of the meaning of ego identity which Ituki Hiroyuki, Uno Kouitiro, and Miki Taku, a representative writer of modern Japanese literature, began to study after his repatriation from colony to Japan, and defined as a “stranger.” After the defeat, Japan has endeavored to build a “New Japan” by reeducating its people. It can be said that the repatriation project has formed the basis for the great unification of the people. The “Personal Experiences of Repatriation” which record the journey of evacuation experienced by repatriates of the ex-colony act as the history of ordeals of the Japanese people, victims of the war. However, repatriates, while perceiving a sense of incompatibility with the Japanese who were invaders of the colony, also feel discriminated against in postwar Japanese society, as though they were strangers. Furthermore, in the perception of repatriates, there is a sense of disjunction between the identity of colonial Japanese and the identity of “pure” mainland Japanese, causing them to experience an existential confusion.