Chapter 35 5. Indestructible Evidence

About half a century after the "Nanjing Massacre", Katsuichi Honda, a reporter from Japan's Asahi Shimbun, visited China.Katsuichi Honda’s father was also a reporter. He went to Nanjing with the army during the Japanese invasion of China. He didn’t believe there would be any survivors in the Caoxixia Massacre. He wanted to check it out himself, but he was over 80 years old , it was really difficult to make the trip, so he entrusted his son to come to China for a detailed interview. When Ben Duosheng saw Tang Guangpu, he asked: "Can you still remember the house where you were imprisoned by Shogun Hill? What material was it made of? What were the walls like? What was the roof made of?"

Tang Guangpu replied without hesitation: "The house where we were imprisoned in Mufu Mountain consisted of more than a dozen rows of simple barracks. The roof was covered with straw, the beams were made of bamboo, and the walls were made of split and woven bamboo. The inside was covered with yellow mud, but the outside was not. , all bamboo." Katsuichi Honda kept flipping through the photo album in his hand, and finally found the photos of the barracks on Mufu Mountain. To his surprise, the barracks shown in these photos were exactly the same as what Tang Guangpu described.The reporter's heart was shocked, the evidence!Iron evidence!At that time, the Japanese militarists destroyed the corpses and wiped out the traces, and tried every means to destroy the evidence.However, as long as they committed heinous crimes, the evidence of history will never be wiped out.

Niu Xianming, another witness of the Caoxie Gorge Massacre, was the engineer battalion commander of the Nanjing garrison. After losing contact with the troops during the retreat, he went down the river to Yongqing Temple in Shangyuanmen, disguised as a monk, and was able to escape. Escape bad luck and witness the crimes of Japanese massacres.Mr. Niu later wrote an article in the Hong Kong "People" magazine describing his adventures in the "Nanjing Massacre" (reprinted in Guangxi "Overseas Nebula" No. 32, 1986).When he talked about the massacre, it was completely consistent with Tang Guangpu's narrative.

Regarding the Caoxie Gorge and other massacres by the Japanese army on the banks of the Yangtze River, it has also been confirmed in the confessions and diaries of the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army who invaded China. On December 27, 1954, at the Fushun War Criminals Management Office, the former Major of the Japanese Invasion Army, Toshio Ota, confessed as follows: "When I received the order, I carried out tasks on the Xiaguan Wharf in Nanjing, divided into two areas, east and west. Anda handled it in the east, and I handled it in the west. A total of 30 steamships, 10 cars, and 800 transport personnel were used in the two areas. Bing. From December 16th to the 18th in two days (should be a 3-day mistake - the author's note), I processed more than 19,000 corpses, and Anda handled more than 16,000, plus the first two days Anda handled it himself Of the more than 65,000 corpses, the Anchorage Command handled a total of more than 100,000 corpses. Except for more than 30,000 corpses that were buried and burned, the rest were thrown into the Yangtze River. I think other troops have disposed of at least There were also 50,000 people, a total of 150,000 people, the vast majority of those killed were citizens, men, women, old and children, and some anti-Japanese troops, estimated to be about 30,000."

A report by Japan's "Mainichi Shimbun" on December 14, 1990 also confirmed the above facts.The report said that Tomoo Ota, a former major in the Japanese Imperial Army, kept a 44-page photo album about the destruction of corpses in the "Nanjing Massacre". "It can be seen from this album that tens of thousands of corpses were destroyed after the notorious 'Nanjing Massacre'." "Ota was a major at the time, and he and about 800 Japanese Transferred to the Yangtze River." "After that, he helped to burn 30,000 corpses." "These soldiers destroyed 100,000 corpses, and another army destroyed 50,000 corpses." These figures are from Ota August 3, 1954 He was 57 years old at the time and was detained at the Fushun War Criminals Management Center in China.

There are many similar examples. For example, in the September 1984 issue of Japan's Asahi Weekly, Katsuichi Honda interviewed 73-year-old Saburo Tanaka from Fukushima Prefecture. Confided to reporters the truth about the massacre of Chinese prisoners by the Japanese army in the Mufu Mountain area on the banks of the Yangtze River. On February 5, 1991, the evening issue of Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" published another article "New Materials on the Nanjing Massacre" written by Kazusai Motota. “Precious first-level information” was discovered during the investigation of the historical fact of the massacre.This is a 20-volume battlefield diary written by a Japanese officer who participated in the capture of Nanjing. The diary describes many situations of "disciplining" (that is, massacre-author's note) Chinese prisoners on the banks of the Yangtze River at the foot of the Shogunate Mountains.

The Japanese fascist militarists did everything possible to destroy their corpses and wipe out their traces in an attempt to cover up the heinous crimes they committed against mankind.However, as long as the world exists and human beings exist, truth and justice will never stop fighting and shouting. Many victims and witnesses bravely stood up and stepped onto the judgment seat of history.What the fascist invaders never expected was that the junior officers and soldiers who trained themselves and personally participated in the "Nanjing Massacre" would also issue sincere atonement and repentance once their conscience returned.A lot of detailed historical materials and conclusive testimonies have finally nailed the ferocious and ugly face of Japanese fascist militarism, with its bloody claws, to the pillar of shame for mankind forever.

History is so severe, history is so ruthless!