Every battlefield has the danger of dying in battle. If I die in battle, I will be reduced to ashes. Even if there is still a breath left, it is impossible to bring me back to Japan.On the battlefield I have seen all the misery of the common people, the evils of war. Because I was deeply moved and had an extraordinary experience, I wrote the good and the evil truthfully. We have been taught that "the Sino-Japanese war is a holy war". "Loyalty to the emperor is more important than Mount Tai, and your lives are as light as a feather. You would rather be a ghost protecting the country than be humiliated by a living prisoner!" Since one's own life is lighter than a feather and is not worth mentioning, isn't the life of a Chinese person even lighter?So they slaughtered them without conscience.

The Japanese army armed with militaristic ideology has no human love and no humanitarianism. The purpose of fighting is victory, and victory is justice.We soldiers have become "living weapons of war."Our teaching is: "Loyalty to the emperor, honorable death!" Militaristic education processes our soldiers into combat weapons, blindly following our superiors indifferently.In the heart of "Living Weapon", there is only loyalty to the emperor. However, human love and compassion are inherent in human nature.Once, Second Lieutenant Nishihara ordered me to say: "Tomorrow morning, I will kill them all, and guard them well to prevent them from escaping!" I thought, "What crime did these five women commit? Why do they have to be killed?" So I resisted. The military order let them go.They kowtowed to me and disappeared into the night.In my "Nanjing War", there is an article about this matter.In addition, in the early hours of December 5, when five young men and one young woman were arrested, they were identified as spies because they were carrying radio transmitters, and they were killed one after another.At that time, the young people's mutual friendship and women's pure love and their noble deeds deeply moved me. I wrote in my diary: "The power of love is greater than death!"

I also recorded that due to the war of aggression launched by us, the local people lost their jobs and their livelihoods.In Handan, there is a family that relies on their wife and a fifteen-year-old girl to prostitute themselves, struggling with hunger and cold.With tears in my eyes, I wrote down the tragic scene after the Yellow River embankment was bombed in my diary.Not only people are killing people, but also the horrible scene where piles of white maggots are killing the old woman alive.I am weeping for the victims of the Japanese army's aggression, but I am also a part of the aggressors.

I am a blind follower who is loyal to the emperor's edict "A soldier's vocation is to face the enemy in battle, and he must not forget the word brave for a moment"; I am a soldier who invaded China; Loyal soldier. The love of humanity and the sense of mission of the warrior made me wonder, for which I kept a diary.After each battle, preparations for the next attack are started, and the troops have to rest and reorganize. I used the rest period to write down the situation on the battlefield.Since it was written in a hurry, it is an overview.In September 1939 I returned to Japan.

In 1940 and 1941 I reviewed the situation in the field and compiled the field diary while I still remembered it. Because I ran eight movie theaters at that time, I couldn't clear up all the diaries. At the beginning of the cleared diary, I wrote: I want to record the truth on the battlefield here. To record the beauty and ugliness on the battlefield. Only record it truthfully from the standpoint of one person. What is war? The word "war" is a general pronoun for cruelty, misery, tyranny, arson, massacre, etc., which are inhuman and extremely evil. The so-called war is an incomparably huge devil's pocket that includes all inhuman evils. It poisons creatures, destroys fertile fields, destroys houses, tyrannizes wantonly, destroys culture, turns the world into a hell, and turns countless souls into lonely souls. ghost.

The real situation of war... seems to be the greatest pain, and it seems to be endless sorrow, and it seems to be the sentimentality of the cry of eternal resentment. During my second expedition, Japan was defeated and surrendered in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province.I led my men to load the weapons and ammunition of our independent brigade on eight sailboats and transport them to Shanghai.At that time, a Chinese military officer above lieutenant officer said to me: "During the war in Nanjing, I was massacred by the Japanese army at Xiaguan Wharf. I escaped by lying under the corpses of my comrades and pretending to be dead. I escaped quietly at night and met with The hateful Japanese army is desperate to this day. When I think of the hatred at that time, Dong Juncao! I wish I could kill you and throw you into the Huangpu River! But because there is an order from above to repay hatred with virtue, I let you live today." He didn’t retaliate against me. Repay the debt of blood.Thanks to the generosity of the Chinese soldiers, I am lucky to be alive today.The magnanimity of the mainland ethnic Chinese who "continuously flows, does not compete for priority, and the river flows day and night" makes me very grateful.Thinking of this, I feel that the Japanese army was not only defeated militarily, but also morally.The Chinese people forgave me with kindness to their sworn enemy, the Japanese Army, and I want to be grateful!

Human progress comes from learning, Knowledge and culture come from writing. Chinese characters were taught to Japan by China. The origin of Japanese culture is China. The paper and ink for writing are also taught in China. Gunpowder was also invented in China, and later spread to Japan, but Japan ungratefully used this gunpowder to wantonly invade the master of gunpowder—China.In the fifteen spring and autumn years, China won the final victory through hard work and bravery. We should never forget the kindness of the Chinese people to us, because they did not retaliate against the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese militarism-warlords, but "repayed us with kindness".

During the Sino-Japanese War, Japan occupied Taiwan and demanded a large amount of compensation from China.However, after Japan's defeat this time, China did not occupy an inch of Japan's land, and did not demand a penny of compensation from the Japanese. Instead, it said to us: "We must always work hard for friendship!" We must repay this kindness. Confucius said: "If you make a mistake, don't be afraid to correct it." Because we are wrong, we must reflect on ourselves, and we must not become ungrateful and despicable people.I want to repent, but white sin, reborn.It's a pity that the group of guys who still linger on militarism even sued: "Toshiro is speaking ill of the Japanese army, which is destroying the reputation." "What reputation does the disgraceful aggression and brutal Japanese army have? ! "I refuted them sternly, and fought with them for two thousand days and nights in the past six years.Three million men went to war, and I was fighting militarism to clear myself of my sins.

In the plaintiff's law firm, the "Nanjing Massacre Fictional Committee" was set up, which was the plaintiff's purpose.Because I confessed the brutality of the Japanese army during the war, they threatened and attacked me and put me on trial.However, the hard historical facts cannot be denied, and we must reflect on them!The despicable militarists who want to deny the Nanjing Massacre desperately use the trial, and their target is me. "Never forgetting the past is the guide for the future." On March 8, 1998, Director Zhu Chengshan and I unanimously agreed to donate the entire volume of the battlefield diary to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, and agreed Published in Chinese, in order to make the "Eastern Diary" which records the actual situation of the war play its due role as a "teacher for the aftermath".In addition, I also donated the Golden Harrier Medal and Ruibao Medal issued by the Emperor, the military medal and its certificate, and the signed military flag to the museum to express my repentance.