＂When I filled out the form, I filled in Chinese.＂ A Japanese said

Written by Guo Xin, North Korea Forum

"Xiao Zhang, who are you?"

"I am Chinese, a soldier who was born as a farm laborer."

"No, are you Japanese?"

"accomplice of the aggressor"

At the age of five, Sha Keiichi Hara’s family came to Fuxin, Liaoning Province from Fukuoka, Japan, with his father who worked in Manchuria Railway. As a child, it’s hard for Hayahara to understand what it means to be in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression on this land. His side is basically Japanese, and only his father’s China apprentice will take him to find some China children to play with.

It’s nothing for children to play together, but the world of adults is much more complicated.

Like Sha Keiichi Hara’s family, there are not a few expatriates who moved from Japan. They are the product of Japan’s aggressive policy.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan invaded Taiwan Province and Penghu Islands, and then immigrated to Taiwan Province on a large scale to strengthen its occupation of Taiwan Province and plunder its resources.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Japan began to plan immigration to the northeast of China. After the war, Japan established the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., which is the "Manchuria Railway" where Shayuanhui’s father worked. Goto Xinping, the first president of "Manchuria Railway", explicitly stated in his inauguration letter that,One of the four core ideas of "Managing Manchuria" is to emigrate to the northeast of China.Later, the Japanese Foreign Minister even proposed a million-person immigration plan.

After the September 18th Incident, the issue of immigration set off another wave of climax.

At that time, although the Japanese army occupied the Northeast, Chinese, who didn’t want to be conquered people, rose up everywhere in Baishan and Heishui, and the anti-Japanese war between the volunteers and the anti-Japanese coalition forces in Northeast China became an important obstacle to Japan’s colonial rule. As a result, Japan began to let Japanese immigrate to the northeast of China on a large scale for permanent settlement, and assisted the Kwantung Army in suppressing the people in the northeast and consolidating colonial rule.

For example, the Manchu-Mongolian Pioneering Group, in order to "Japanize" the northeast of China, expelled and killed the local residents, and then forcibly took the land away from farming, and also called it "exploiting wasteland".

While colonizing the northeast of China, these Japanese expatriates also provided soldiers and logistics for the Japanese Kwantung Army, and served as the eyes, ears and mouthpiece of the Japanese invaders. Under the protection of the Japanese army, they have always held their heads high in Chinese. It is recorded in Mr. Lao She’s masterpiece "Four Generations under One Family".Japanese expatriates don’t give money to buy things, but they take them and leave. If Chinese pursues him, he will be beaten or put in jail.In the northeast, Japanese expatriates control various institutions and enterprises, such as coal mines in Liaoning.Japanese foremen also like to blow their noses into China workers’ pots. Facing Chinese’s angry face, they even said cheekily, "You have great strength after eating Japanese snot!"!When the Japanese invaders acted, many Japanese expatriates followed suit, and some county towns were even occupied by several Japanese ronins …

By the time Japan surrendered in 1945, the number of Japanese in China had reached millions. According to the statistics of the documents of the Sino-US Joint Repatriation Conference of Japanese Prisoners and Overseas Chinese at that time, there were more than 2 million Japanese in the Guanzhong area except the three northeastern provinces, and more than 1.1 million in the three northeastern provinces.

These people can be divided into three categories. The first category is the so-called "unarmed officers and soldiers", which is the name used by the Kuomintang to win over Japanese fascists. These Japanese troops were only partially disarmed, and their main task was to hold the territory for the convenience of the Kuomintang’s receiving officials to "rob". The second category is the real prisoners. These Japanese prisoners usually stay in prison camps and work as road builders and coolies.The third category is these Japanese expatriates, who have the largest number and the least available value. What awaits them will undoubtedly be the punishment of fate.

"Swine swineherd and farm labourers"

With the Japanese invaders signing the surrender book, the arduous 14-year war of resistance finally ended with the complete victory of the people of China. In the cheers of the people in China, Japanese expatriates can only hide in a dark corner and shiver, and try their best to escape back to Japan or seek asylum.

Sha Yuanhui was in middle school in Dalian at that time. His father, who worked in "Manchuria Railway", had realized the end of Japan’s imminent defeat, so he sent Sha Yuanhui to Dalian, hoping that once the situation changed, Sha Yuanhui could return to Japan quickly. However, people are not as good as the sky.One month before Japan announced its defeat and surrender, Sha Yuanhui’s father died in Fuxin, Liaoning. Sha Yuanhui also lost the opportunity to return to Japan because he went home to visit relatives.

Shayuanhui drifted from place to place with her mother and finally settled down in Goubangzi, Beizhen, Liaoning Province. My mother worked as a tailor, and she worked as a swineherd in a landlord’s house. Later, she also spared the cattle to the landlord. Most people in the village know that they are Japanese, but they have never bullied them. Although life is hard, compared with most Japanese expatriates, their life is not satisfactory.

With the final defeat of the Japanese, the "Takeshi Yamato", who had been rampant in China for more than half a century, finally discovered that,Without the protection of guns, their so-called "Yamato national superiority" is just an illusion.Chinese’s anger, which had been accumulated for a long time, erupted like a volcano. In many places, the people of China raised their farm tools and sticks, and chased after the Japanese expatriates who bullied them on weekdays.Japanese foreman, who likes to blow his nose for Chinese on the construction site, left his wife and children and fled without a trace.

Those Japanese officials who are always imposing and ready to "slap in the face" to Chinese (Japanese Chinese: slap in the face) are scared to pieces when they meet China officials, and they try their best to curry favor with powerful Chinese.

For Japanese expatriates, they have no thoughts of compatriots at all.For example, when a group of Japanese expatriates fled from Zhangjiakou to the northeast and passed through Tianjin, the Japanese officials who led the team unexpectedly left the hungry Japanese expatriates and went to a Japanese restaurant to eat and drink. The hungry Japanese expatriates shouted to kill these conscienceless people. After Japan surrendered, the staff of Nanjing Airlines in Japan flew away a large amount of property privately, but left other Japanese overseas Chinese to die.However, the relief supplies issued by the Japanese military command in China were sold to Chinese in large quantities by Japanese officials, which led to the starvation of a large number of Japanese nationals.

The same thing happened in the northeast. Kato Wanji, a Japanese who is known as the "father of development", once strongly incited Japanese young people to "develop" in the northeast, but at this time he secretly ran back to Japan with money. Jiubao Tianfeng, the county magistrate of the pseudo-Jining County, embezzled the money, left the overseas Chinese and fled back to Japan, and continued to be the village head in Jiushan Village, Japan.

As for the Japanese expatriates abandoned by those Japanese officials, their fate is even more tragic. In addition to facing the anger of China people, there are former puppet troops and other "two devils". After seeing the "Taijun" arrested, they rushed into Japanese homes to rob and extort money. Even Japanese expatriates who managed to escape to shelters in big cities were searched by Kuomintang officials and "two devils" in front of various roads, and some even took their daughters away.

Many Japanese expatriate women are unable to make a living, and are forced to live by prostitution. As a result, they are tortured and blackmailed by Kuomintang officials and hooligans.At that time, in Shanghai alone, hundreds of Japanese expatriate women were forced to join the ranks of prostitution. Many people end up suffering from various diseases, and after death, they are just buried in the graves. In the northeast,Many Japanese women and children, left behind by their husbands and fathers, died of hunger and cold in the snowstorm.

"They are all Japanese devils."

In the city of Beiping on the eve of liberation, several children are crowding round a vendor selling candied haws. The peddler was so annoyed that he clumsily gave them candied haws. Unexpectedly, the more children gathered around, and before people left the city, the candied haws were already scattered. This peddler, Zhang Rongqing, is a scout of our army. He came to town to inquire about the protection of the Kuomintang troops. Zhang Rongqing had just participated in the battle of Liaoshen and won many awards for his meritorious service.

In 1950, Zhang Rongqing followed the troops to the Korean battlefield. He submitted an application for joining the party, was prepared for sacrifice, and even wrote a suicide note.

Until one day, the political commissar talked to him.

"Xiao Zhang, who are you?"

"I am Chinese, a soldier who was born as a farm laborer."

"No, are you Japanese?"

It turns out that Zhang Rongqing is Sha Yuanhui.

After working as a farm laborer for the landlord for several years, the "land reform" once again changed the fate of Sha Keiichi Hara’s family. According to the composition, Sha Keiichi Hara’s family, who concealed the Japanese identity, was classified as "farm labourers". "It’s worse than the poor peasants. At least the poor peasants still have their own means of production and a place to live. We are so poor that we don’t even have any means of production."

The great changes in life have greatly touched Sha Yuanhui.

"I have seen the Kwantung Army, the Central Army of the Kuomintang and the Eighth Route Army of communist party, and experienced the changes of the old and new times. After experiencing such great changes in the times, I want to liberate others when I see that others have not been liberated. "

Regardless of her mother’s opposition, Sha Yuanhui resolutely decided to join the Northeast Democratic Coalition led by the Communist Party of China (CPC).When Sha Yuanhui signed up, he gave himself the name of China-Zhang Rongqing, Zhang Fei’s Zhang. Because he is too young, he also deliberately wrote his age.

"When I filled out the form, I filled in Chinese."Sha Yuanhui said that the troops did not know their own situation at that time.

Due to the political particularity of the Korean War, the Japanese were not allowed to appear on the battlefield. A small number of "Japanese PLA veterans" in medical care, air force, railways, machinery and other technical categories in the People’s Liberation Army have all stayed by the Yalu River. Therefore, when Shayuanhui’s true identity was discovered, he also had to leave the Korean battlefield.

Sha Yuanhui was transferred to the Northeast Old Aviation School, where there were many Japanese technicians. Unexpectedly, as soon as I reported to Sha Yuanhui, I started a hunger strike.

"I have a look at the Japanese, and I can’t accept it if I give the devils white rice. What are we eating on the Korean battlefield? They are all Japanese devils! "

In the end, the political commissar got through his ideological work and made him understand the significance of this cause.

In 1955, Hayahara returned to Japan. Since then, he has been committed to promoting friendly exchanges between China and Japan and has returned to China many times.

In 2013, Sha Yuanhui found the place where the family was exiled that year. He asked the villagers if there were any Japanese in the village many years ago.An old lady on the lookout recognized Shayuanhui and affectionately called out his nickname "Xiao Sanyuan" at that time. This made Sha Yuanhui feel deeply. "How many years have passed, and some people still remember me."

Someone wants us to forget, so we can’t forget.

In fact, descendants of Japanese expatriates like Kei Sha Yuan and "veterans of the Japanese People’s Liberation Army" are not in a good situation after returning to Japan. Because of their affection for China and their support for Sino-Japanese friendship, the Japanese government suppressed them in all directions. Even in the 1980s, Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations had been normalized for a long time.When some Japanese orphans in China returned to Japan, they were still secretly censored and monitored by the Japanese government.

In recent years, there have been a lot of fallacies and fallacies in Japanese society that right-wingers are engaged in invading China. The rightwing of the Japanese government is even more obvious. Not only did former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit the Yasukuni Shrine recently, but also many cabinet ministers in Japan, including the current defense minister, recently engaged in "ghost worship" activities at the Yasukuni Shrine.

In recent years, however, some Japanese film and television animation works have used various methods to "whitewash" Japan’s aggression in those years and cover up the militaristic core of "anti-war" with the skin of "anti-war".

History is conclusive. As Japanese expatriates under Japan’s policy of aggression against China, they undoubtedly acted as accomplices of Japanese fascists and should be punished after the defeat of the war. But from another point of view, the Japanese fascist war of aggression also brought profound disasters to its own people. Japanese expatriates who were sent to China by them as cannon fodder finally tasted the bitter fruit of participating in the war of aggression.

Countless tragic lessons only prove one thing: when the imperialist butcher’s knife is cut at others, it will also be cut at its own people.I hope the Japanese can have a clear understanding of this bloody lesson.

After all, "the people of China are the same as the Japanese people, and there is only one enemy, that is, Japanese imperialism and the scum of the China nation."