Looking at the migrations accompanying the collapse of the Ottoman Empire (especially the 1878-1923 Balkan migrations) and the Japanese migrations that took place during the collapse of the Japanese Empire (1946-1949) obliges a total comparison. Comparing these two post-imperial migrations provides comparing political systems, population composition and distribution, identity politics, and international balances. Despite the profound differences between these two migrations that are so far apart geographically and historically, such a comparison helps us understand Ottoman migrations (muhacir) better. The absence of the phenomena encountered in Japanese repatriations (hikiagesha) in Ottoman migrations led to questioning not only the existing ones but also the ones that were not. Such a comparison will also help to place the Ottoman migrations within global history. In this presentation, where I will share the first findings of the research, I will discuss the ways in which the two migrations are remembered by comparing migration monuments as a sampling.