Chapter 170 Asakusa Park in Japan

This spring, several of us Chinese representatives who participated in the emergency meeting of Asian and African writers, accompanied by a famous Japanese playwright, visited several "famous places" in Tokyo.I saw Asakusa Park for the first time, and I was very impressed.No wonder when I casually asked a playwright before arriving at Asakusa Park, "Do you often come here to get materials?" He frowned and replied, "No, I come here only once a year. ..." When we arrived at Asakusa Park, it was still early, and there were not many people at the gates of the theater and dance hall, and there were huge posters of robbers and obscenities that were stacked in front of your eyes .The face with lewd smiles floating around, the masked face with fierce light shining from the hollowed out eyeholes, these are the American or American faces that corrupt and corrupt people's hearts, alluring and forcing Japanese young people who have nowhere to go in their spiritual life have embarked on a degenerate road willing to be enslaved!

I once heard a Japanese friend say sadly, "Asakusa Park, during the US occupation, was one of the centers where they made troubles and played with 'bang bang girls'. Here, I don't know how many young women are forced to make ends meet. They were devastated, got sick and died. They endured humiliation silently and were buried silently by their companions." Although Americans in military uniforms are not often seen in the garden today, "American culture", "American "Lifestyle" has been deeply entrenched in Tokyo's entertainment venues for more than ten years.No, it should be said that it has been deeply and widely entrenched in entertainment venues across Japan.I have seen such posters in front of many movie theaters all over Japan.

In Asakusa Park, like other "famous places", disabled soldiers in white clothes, with a piece of paper hanging on their chest, stand silently by the roadside with their heads bowed, waiting for donations from time to time.It has been 16 years since Japan surrendered, and the lives of these disabled soldiers who died for the militarists have not been resolved. At the same time, I heard that the widow of the first war criminal, Hideki Tojo, received 20,000 Japanese gold every month from the government. Pension fee!When I saw disabled soldiers begging for begging in Enoshima, a Japanese writer friend described to me a cartoon in a newspaper.In the painting is a Japanese self-defense force, wearing American uniforms, with a young girl hanging on his arm, walking proudly on the street, and behind him is a disabled soldier begging for money, looking at their backs and smiling pitifully.

We walked on the road leading to Guanyin Hall, and there were rows of small shops on both sides, selling daily necessities, food, clothing, tourists and customers, in an endless stream.Those few days were the spring break season in the school. The front of the Guanyin Hall was crowded with primary school students on spring outings. They were led by the teacher and marched in a team. When they passed by the big incense burner in front of the hall, they also smoked cigarettes one after another. disease can be eradicated.The Guanyin Hall was bombed during the war, and the tower behind it has not been restored so far. The rebuilt Guanyin Hall is full of incense.When we went to the hall to look, we found that there was a large piece of ground in front of the incense table, which was inlaid with hollow copper bars. When the people who entered the incense threw incense money at the table, the money fell from the gap under the copper bars. went.A wide conveyor belt is installed under the copper bar, which automatically and continuously collects incense coins one by one to the back.I have also seen conveyor belts for transporting pebbles at the Miyun Reservoir construction site and the Sanmenxia Reservoir construction site, which was not a novelty to me.But this is the first time I have seen this manpower-saving scientific tool applied to collecting incense money.

The patriotic people of Japan, under the influence of the "culture" of the U.S. imperialists, are deeply saddened by the filthy entertainment venues that have grown like viruses and bacteria.More than one of them said to me more than once: "Japan's obscene and low-level entertainment venues are ten times worse than Shanghai before liberation and Hong Kong today. Drug trafficking, prostitution, alcoholism, murder, and gambling are all involved here. Yes! This is only when the people feel that their future is dark, they will abandon themselves in this way, and what the imperialists welcome most is the self-denial of the colonial and semi-colonial people, so that they can be blatant and do whatever they want. But The Japanese people have awakened. Our friendly Chinese people have set a shining example for us. On the land of New China, we have not seen any ruins defaced by the imperialists. We have already seen our bright future.

We can build a truly The land of beautiful and bright flowers, the land of the rising sun..." These angry, firm, sincere, excited and confident faces who talked to me on the train at dusk, in the warm small room, on the spring mountain in the early morning, under the snowy cherry blossoms, brought back my memory The lewd smiles and fierce faces that I saw on the Asakusa Park poster in the middle are all reflected in a dim light!Under the ocean of Japanese people's anger and resistance, majestic waves are rolling.These bursts of waves, one wave higher than the other, are constantly boiling towards the surface of the sea, brewing a thunderous explosive force.

(This article was originally published in "Guangming Daily" on November 18, 1961, and later included in the collection of essays "Cherry Blossom Praise".)