and South Korea. A Korean comfort woman named Kim Ch'un-hui stayed behind in Vietnam and died there when she was 44 in 1963, owning a dairy farm, cafe, U.S. cash, and diamonds worth 200,000 U.S. dollars. A number of Japanese soldiers stayed behind immediately after the war to stay with their war brides, but in 1954 they were ordered to return to Japan by the Vietnamese government and were "encouraged" to abandon their wives and children. The now abandoned Vietnamese war brides who had mothered children would be forced to raise them by themselves and often faced harsh criticism for having relations with members of an enemy army that had occupied Vietnam. Korean War 6,423 Korean women married U.S. military personnel as war brides during and immediately after the Korean War. Vietnam War 8,040 Vietnamese women came to the U.S. as war brides between 1964 and 1975. Iraq War War brides from wars subsequent to Vietnam became less common due to differences in religion and culture, shorter durations of wars, and direct orders. As of 2006, about 1,500 visa requests had been made by US military personnel for Iraqi spouses and fiancées. There have been several well-publicized cases of American soldiers marrying Iraqi women. Notes References See also War Brides Act Eswyn Lyster (1923–2009), a British-born Canadian author best known for writing extensively on the Canadian war bride experience War children Brides of ISIL GI Brides, a narrative non-fiction book about British war brides of World War II War Brides, a 1916 silent film by Herbert Brenon and starring Alla Nazimova I Was a Male War Bride, a screwball comedy film featuring Cary Grant as a male war bride Roger Charlier (1921–2018), inspiration for the film Japanese War Bride, a 1952 film by King Vidor featuring Shirley Yamaguchi and Don Taylor Madame Butterfly, a 1904 opera by Giacomo Puccini about a Japanese child bride who is abandoned by her husband, a US Navy lieutenant, redone in 1989 as Miss Saigon External links "American War Bride Experience; Fact, Stories about American War Brides"; American War World II GI Brides. website Luxembourg War Brides; "The Meeting of Anni Adams: The Butterfly of Luxembourg"; American War Brides. website Australian War Brides website Canadian War Brides of WW II website Newfoundland & Labrador War Brides website Canadian War Brides from Veterans' Affairs Canada website CBC Digital Archives – Love and War: Canadian War Brides