Chapter 17 Chapter 3 Devil!

Yoshio Suzuki——At that time, he was the leader of the 110th Battalion of the 59th Division of the Japanese Invading Army Anji Kaneko——Second Class Private of the Tenth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Forces of the Japanese Invaders Kawamura Taimixiong——Second Lieutenant of the 34th Infantry Company of the Central China Expeditionary Army of the Japanese Army Mr. Cui Yongyuan, our chief planner, once said: "I am very worried, whether the young children have the perseverance to watch this film, we are even confused, should we tell them the truth like this? In the end we chose to tell. Because we don't Say no. That's real history."

I think that in the few episodes that "confuse" him, "Devil! " almost bears the brunt of it.Because I have also had this kind of "confusion" - how should the truth be presented? Of course, the first element of our program is truth, but the "truth" that "confuses" us refers to something else, that "truth" is full of blood, cruelty, loss of humanity and morality... In the program, I emphasized a fact: Yoshio Suzuki and Yasuji Kaneko were just two of the most ordinary Japanese soldiers among the more than 4 million Japanese invaders!

How much truth has been forgotten, concealed, and lost! The Japanese military reporters who accompanied the Japanese army once recorded that the Japanese soldiers were brave, capable, sunny and kind. They are the angels in the hearts of the Japanese people.The emperor's army is the best in the world.In fact, until the end of the war, most Japanese people still held to this view, even after the trial of Japanese war criminals by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. But the Japanese military reporters also took another part of the photos, all of which were stamped with the stamp of "not allowed", and the images of the Japanese soldiers in this part of the photos were completely different from those circulated in magazines and books back then. Cruel and inhuman.

When these realities are deliberately covered up and forgotten after the passage of time, the "truth" we want to present is endowed with a sense of mission. On the other hand, another meaning of "confusion" is, what kind of attitude should be used to face him when these bloody facts are in front of him? Mr. Cui Yongyuan emphasized more than once: We are not intensifying ethnic conflicts, but just telling everyone not to forget history. If telling the truth can only lead to such results, it also loses the value of "truth". While flipping through the material tapes of the program, there was a detail that made me both unbearable and very confused: when two Japanese veterans told the stories, especially Yoshio Suzuki, even when he told the bloodiest and most inhuman acts, he would not He kept laughing, laughing hard.I specifically consulted our Japanese translator, Mr. Wang Fan, and he told me that this is actually the Japanese showing his courtesy.

This answer added to my confusion. In the film directed by Jiang Wen, when Kosaburo Hanaya yelled "Happy New Year, big brother and sister-in-law, you are my father and I am your son", Yu'er was confused. How can the Japanese say good things?Dong Hanchen's explanation is that the Japanese are like this, otherwise why are they called devils. But whether it is my confusion or the confusion of the fish in the movie, only when we understand it a little bit, can we gradually approach the reality.This is also our purpose. On December 3, 1940, Yasuji Kaneko, a 20-year-old Japanese fisherman with a smile on his face, gathered in Ueno Park, Tokyo, together with thousands of conscripts of his age.

Kaneko Yasuji couldn't forget the scene when he left home.His mother stood in front of the stove with her back to him.He said: "Mother, I will come back as a private." His mother said: "I don't want Jinpingtang, you must come back alive." Kaneko Yasuji was very upset when his mother said this, and even looked down on her a bit—for the recruits who went to war, everyone didn’t say "come back alive", but "die for the country". "My mother actually said such things... I have been dazzled, thinking, look at my heroic triumph!" Kaneko Anji, who felt that he was not a hero if he was not a soldier, resolutely left.

Among the recruits gathered at Ueno Park was a young man named Yoshio Suzuki.At that time, Anji Kaneko didn't know him, let alone think that 60 years later, he would sit on the witness stand of the International War Crimes Tribunal for Violating Women's Rights with this person. The recruits put on military uniforms and military boots and lined up to Shibaura Port.On the side of the road, people cheered and waved national flags to see them off. In a crowded port, recruits board the ship.Kaneko Yasuji looked around on the boat and saw his father in the crowd. He was holding a large banner with the words "Kaneko Yasuji-kun, celebrate the expedition", and his mother stood beside him.

"They want to tell me that my mother is here. There are too many people. If you don't hold a pennant, you won't be able to find it in the crowd." Kaneko Yasuji said that at that time, the army stipulated that recruits were not allowed to wave or speak, but could only salute. "Maybe it's a farewell, some kids are waving desperately." The marching band began to play "Long Live Friendship."Kaneko Yasuji, who saluted his parents, became very sad. The ship weighed anchor, and the people seeing off were getting smaller and smaller. Kaneko Anji thought to himself: "We must come back alive."

The ship sails to China.The recruits had already heard that the Chinese common people, who were used to using "ghost" to describe ferocious and terrifying things, hated to call the Japanese soldiers "ghosts".They didn't think much about the meaning of the word, they just thought about being a hero and coming back alive. The ship docked in Qingdao.The recruits arrived in Jinan by train and were transferred to their respective units.Anci Kaneko reported to the 44th Brigade of the North China Expeditionary Army's Independent Mixed Tenth Brigade (later reorganized into the 59th Division of the Twelfth Army) in Yanzhou.

In the barracks of the 44th Battalion, Kaneko Yasuji and others began to receive recruit education-in Kaneko Yasuji's words, it was all murder training. Every morning at 6 o'clock in the morning, before dawn, the bugle sounded, and the recruits got up in a panic and rushed to the playground. "If you are late, you will be beaten first at this time." Kaneko Yasuji said, and everyone was exercising together topless. Anci Kaneko recalled that the textbooks used in indoor classes were "Infantry Exercise Code" and "Battle Order".In terms of international law, such as the Hague Rules of Land Warfare, there is no mention in the handouts, and soldiers are not aware of the existence of these treaties.

Every night before going to bed, the recruits will be called by the instructor and asked to recite the "Soldiers' Edict", and those who cannot recite will be beaten. The "Soldiers' Edict" is written in ancient Chinese, and between the lines, it is full of respect for the emperor. In the minds of the recruits, the emperor's status is sacred.Anji Kaneko remembers that since he was in elementary school, the school implemented the education that "the emperor is a living god, and Japan is a country of gods". When students pass by, they must perform the "most salute"—bow at right angles with their whole bodies. "If you forget to salute carelessly, you will be regarded as disrespectful and you will be hit by the teacher." Since childhood, he firmly believed in the idea that the emperor is a god. Even if there are exceptions, there is no detachment. Kawamura Taimio, who enlisted in the army in 1943, wrote in his memoirs when he was studying at a normal school: For the militarized school life, some people are honestly not enthusiastic about pursuing it; some people have doubts: "Is this right?" Some people think that other methods should be used.These people have all been targeted.But in such an environment, everyone is forced to bear militarism and take the lead: "I want to be the vanguard of the soldiers of the imperial army." From the heart, the real pursuit of difficulties is closed, and those who seem to be able to do it easily Obsessed with personal gain.With the background of power, the domineering military department preemptively infiltrated the normal school with the theory of state system and aggressive policy as sacred things.Under banners such as "Training the citizens of the Imperial Kingdom" and "Returning to the Emperor", the personality, talent, and human rights of teachers and students are all denied.The educational world at that time was unimaginable today. The militarization of education, of course, is carried out from elementary school to universities and research institutes, and most liberal professors are arrested and imprisoned.Those innocent teenagers who know nothing and have no ability to doubt and criticize are irresistibly transformed into militaristic teenagers. The recruits always heard the instructors say that the Chinese are an inferior race, and if they kill the inferior race, their souls will be saved.Day after day, the recruits gradually believed that it was their own sacred mission to conquer an inferior nation for the emperor.Kaneko Anji said that when recruits write suicide notes before going to the battlefield, they will write "for His Majesty the Emperor". The last part of recruit education is combat education, including camping, looting, slaughtering looted livestock, etc., and there is another item, which is killing. The recruits, all armed with rifles, assembled in a town square.Several Chinese were tied to a tree.Kaneko Anji remembered that one of them was a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old. The recruits came to about 10 meters in front of the tree and lined up.The instructor ordered them to load their rifles with bayonets and stab the man tied to the tree in the chest. "If you don't obey the order, you will definitely be beaten, and you will be scolded: 'Are you still a soldier of the emperor?' However, stabbing people with a knife is such a terrible thing. Everyone is unwilling to do it, and they are all beaten there. His nose is bruised and his face is swollen," Kaneko Yasuji said.As a result, under the threat of the officer, they stabbed the bayonets into the chest of the Chinese one by one while shouting loudly. After Kaneko Anji's bayonet pierced into a person's body, the tip of the knife suddenly got stuck between the ribs. He couldn't use his hand at all, and the gun dropped from his hand.The instructor immediately punched him a few times and ordered him to line up to do it again. "He told us to look at the other person's face, but I didn't dare to look at it. The other person didn't wear a cloth blindfold, and when we looked at his face, we saw his staring eyes." Kaneko Yasuji looked around, only one recruit squatted down, and that was Gonda, who had been a monk in Japan. "He said that he is a monk, so he can't kill anyone no matter what." The instructor pulled Quan Tian by the collar, forced him to stand up, and shouted: "Sting him!" Quan Tian cried and said, "I can't do it, I can't do it. "In the end, Quan Tian still didn't kill him, but he was beaten to death and almost died." Kaneko Yasuji said, "It's really impossible to kill people with bayonets. How can ordinary people do these things? The opponent is still innocent. The power of resistance." The veterans demonstrated to the recruits: in order to prevent the bayonet from getting stuck in the ribs, as soon as the bayonet was pierced into the chest, immediately turn the blade sideways. Assassination of prisoners of training is often carried out. The theory that "only by killing yourself can you train your courage and effectively produce a large number of mature soldiers in a short period of time" has been widely spread in the Japanese army. Kaneko Anji said: "At first I was very resistant to killing people, but when I went to the battlefield, I gradually didn't feel that killing people was such a big deal. Instead, I felt that it was impossible not to kill people in war. When I went out to fight, I killed people every day. It's also very interesting, so I came up with many ways to kill people. Torture to death, humiliate and kill women... In the end, even Quan Tian also killed people." "The commander's order is the emperor's order." Kaneko Yasuji, who was instilled with this concept, set foot on the battlefield after completing the training of recruits. At that time, the Japanese army divided China's land into three types of areas: "law and order areas", "quasi law and order areas", and "non-law and order areas". "Public security areas" are areas that are completely under the control of the Japanese army; "quasi-public security areas" are areas that are half under the control of the Japanese army and half of which are controlled by the Chinese army; "non-security areas" are areas that the Japanese army cannot control. "After we entered the 'non-law and order zone', the army commander publicly instructed us that you can do whatever you want in the 'non-law and order zone'." Joined the army at the same time as Anji Kaneko, the same as the fifty-ninth Yoshio Suzuki of the division recalled. In the autumn of 1941, Anci Kaneko's troops entered a village between Laiwu and Xintai, Shandong, and fought against the Eighth Route Army.After entering the village, the Japanese army searched house by house. Anji Kaneko and a veteran broke into a house, and they found someone in the corner, a woman in her 30s and a boy about 4 years old. The veteran excitedly said to Kaneko Anji: "Take the child out and stand guard outside, and come back after I finish my work." Kaneko Anji recalled that he took the child from the woman's arms and took it outside.The child was crying and fussing.A woman's roar came from inside the room. The veteran pulled the woman by her hair and pulled her out of the house.The woman kept screaming and resisting.The veteran said angrily: "I want to show you some color." The veteran dragged the woman to a well about 20 meters away.He asked Kaneko Anji to help, and together they threw the woman into the well.The old soldier grabbed the woman by the head, Kaneko Anji grabbed her by the legs, and threw her headfirst into the well.After the woman's scream, there was the sound of water breaking from the bottom of the well. According to Anji Kaneko's recollection: The veteran lit a cigarette.The child cried loudly, shouted "Mom, Mom", walked around the well platform, and jumped into the well with a plop. The veteran was silent for a while, and said to Kaneko Anji, "Anji, you must have the spirit of a warrior and throw a grenade down." Kaneko Yasuji took out a grenade, pulled the fuse, and threw it into the well.There was a loud bang from the well. "At this time, there was a great psychological impact. The other party was just a child, and the impact was great." Anci Kaneko described his own psychology at the time. After the psychological shock, Anji Kaneko gradually felt relieved amid the wanton laughter of the veteran. He knew that to sympathize with the Chinese would be considered a coward.He also laughed, although the expression on his face was a little distorted. In the flames of war, recruits become veterans, and people become ghosts. Kaneko Yasuji said in his own words: After staying in China for 5 years, only the first and second years when he was a recruit did not rape women. "As long as you go out to fight, you will rape women, and the soldiers will compare with each other. You raped two people, and I raped three people." Kaneko Yasuji recalled his psychology at that time: "Maybe I will die in battle today or tomorrow. Anyway, if you want to die, it’s better to do everything a man can do, which is to satisfy your own sexual desire. In addition, we Japanese called Chinese people "Chinese people" at that time, and even called Chinese people "Chinamen" and raped Chinese women. It is also a matter of course.” Kaneko Anci said that at that time, he traveled with the troops to Jinan and Tai'an to fight the Eighth Route Army. As soon as the veterans entered the neighborhood, they searched everywhere for women.If a woman is found, two or three people will work together, some will stand guard, and some will rape. After undergoing the same psychological transformation as Anji Kaneko, Yoshio Suzuki gradually had no scruples on the battlefield. Suzuki Yoshio said that after his troops occupied a village, they established a stronghold, and then sent small teams to "sweep" the surrounding villages.Suzuki Yoshio, who became a non-commissioned officer, told his 15 soldiers that they could do whatever they wanted and rape women at will. Suzuki Yoshio said that during a "sweep", he and his men found a large house in a village. Seven or eight old women, with black pot ash on their faces and dirty bodies, cowered in the corner of the room , trembling all over. Yoshio Suzuki found a woman about 30 years old among them, and threatened the old women with pistols and sabers, trying to drive them away. Seven or eight old women trembled even more, but their bodies were still standing in front of the young women, refusing to leave no matter what.It took Suzuki Yoshio and his soldiers a long time to drive away these old women with bayonets. "When I came back and wanted to rape the young woman, I found that she was missing. I searched everywhere, but I couldn't find her." Suzuki Yoshio said that the soldiers were crazy, screaming and smashing around, and finally found her in a pigsty. the woman.The poor woman was covered in feces all over her body and had feces smeared on her face just to avoid being raped. "If ordinary people saw that she wanted to protect herself so much and made her whole body so dirty, they might let her go. But at that time, I was the opposite. I just pulled her out of the pigsty and dragged her into the room." Suzuki Yoshio mentioned that at that time, as long as she was a woman, no matter how old she was, the Japanese soldiers would not let her off.Recalling the past, the gray-haired Yoshio Suzuki's voice trembled: "I can say with certainty that all the soldiers at that time committed crimes of raping women." Yasuji Kaneko admitted that, according to the military discipline regulations of the Japanese Army, those who raped innocent civilian women would be punished, but in fact, "the Japanese army raped innocent women in China in the occupied areas of China, but none of them were imprisoned or punished by the military. court punishment." The impunity of bestiality engulfed the Japanese soldiers.Under the blue sky and broad daylight, they became ferocious ghosts one by one. In wartime China, whether it was a city or a village, the sound of artillery became a part of the rhythm of life.Of course, life always goes on. Kawamura Taimio wrote in his memoirs what he saw in Youhe City in the northwest of Xinyang, Henan: On the river beach from the east gate to the south gate of Youhe City, there are hundreds of stalls lined up close to the city wall.Some are surrounded by mats, some are not, some are covered with sheds, and some are piled on the ground.Although it is a bit disorganized, it is a stereotyped market, a place where various materials are bought and sold. As the war moved to other regions, the market size gradually expanded and became more and more lively.There are people coming and going in the market, as if they are rushing to a temple fair.Walking in the crowd and watching people haggling makes one forget that this is the front line of a war between two countries. Young Japanese soldiers also feel homesick.Kawamura Tamio remembers the appearance of his hometown and the warmth of his home. "Although the children are not rich, everyone is very happy at dinner time every day. Although poor, my mother always tries to cook something that suits the season: rice cake mountain bean soup, rice cake with bean paste, curry rice, sukiyaki , pork soup and so on. She often runs around the dining table to help serve dishes. In addition, every morning we can see six or seven packed lunch boxes on the wooden shelf of the stove. , and saw a row of straw sandals, clogs, etc. neatly arranged in a room with a skylight but no floor.” But this scene is no longer.Only the mother, pregnant sisters, and nephews and nieces who have not grown up are left at home, and the days become deserted. Kaneko Yasuji remembers that during the war, the Japanese government encouraged women to have more children, and those who gave birth to more than 10 children would be rewarded by the government—if a boy was born, he could serve as a soldier or a strong labor force when he grew up; Can have children.The government publicized that now is a time full of crises, and the Japanese should not think too much about other things, but should fight bravely to the end with countries that oppose Japan. "However, when we arrived in China, Japan's policy suddenly changed. They ordered us to massacre women and children, because women can bear children, and children will rise up to rebel against the Japanese when they grow up. If they are resistant, they can be spared, but all women and children must be killed." Kaneko Yasuji said. The same woman, the same child, they are relatives over there, but they will be killed by themselves here.The children in the hometown have become devils in foreign countries. My hometown is thousands of miles away, and the appearance of my mother and sisters is gradually blurred.The devils knew that there was no way out but to go back with the medal on their chest. American writer Donovan Webster interpreted the psychological characteristics of Japanese soldiers in this way: The Japanese have absolutely no fear of their own personal apocalyptic salvation - and very few have a physical fear of death.Every soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army knows that medals and honors are only awarded to those who successfully win battles for His Majesty the Emperor, and no one is rewarded merely for bravery on the battlefield.Every soldier is but a small part of the whole army, and if he does not make the best effort, then his squad, battalion, regiment, and even division will suffer disgrace.He was also well aware that while he was away on an expedition, his parents, siblings, and other family members were never permitted to do, say, or write in letters that might make the soldiers slightly hesitant to commit themselves to the Emperor. things.This is the idea that the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army who are full of offensive thoughts have been indoctrinated for a long time. Yu Ge, a military writer, analyzed: "The bravery and toughness of the Japanese soldiers are mainly derived from the collective concept and culture of shame formed by the Japanese nation in the living environment of the island country. However, it cannot be said that it is based on rational self-consciousness at the level of spiritual belief. Many Japanese Cultural scholars all admit that the Japanese nation is precisely the one that lacks the most thought and belief and is easily incited and bewitched." He believes: "In fact, the 'bravery' in the ignorant state is not real bravery, but a kind of pathology. Just as After the war, Kawabe Shozo, the commander of the Burmese Front Army, quoted an evaluation from an American military officer in his book "A History of Spiritual Education in the Japanese Army": "Although the Japanese soldiers are strong, they are very pitiful." Of course, the Japanese soldiers on the Chinese battlefield were unaware of their sickness and pity. They stabbed the bayonet into the child's body with one hand, and stretched out the other hand to the woman. Kaneko Yasuji said that he and the veterans took a beautiful woman back to the barracks, gang-raped her with seven or eight Japanese soldiers, and someone even asked her how she felt in an extremely obscene manner.At this time, the woman lay on the ground unable to move, dying. Kaneko Anji also talked about another cruel crime he participated in: a veteran raped a woman, the woman resisted desperately, the veteran ordered him and several other soldiers to hold the woman down, the veteran stuffed cotton doused with gasoline into the woman's vagina The genitals were ignited, and the flames shot up very high, burning the woman to death. Suzuki Yoshio, who also committed numerous crimes, analyzed his own mentality in the following years: "I was originally a very honest and responsible person, but when I was approaching the year of defeat, I realized that Japan was no longer viable, and the Japanese army was no longer possible. Win this war. So I came up with this idea: Anyway, if you lose the battle, you will die in the battle sooner or later. As a man, you should fight it out before you die, and do whatever you want." Because of the crazy rape and gang rape, many Japanese soldiers were infected with venereal diseases.Suzuki Yoshio said that at that time, there was a regulation within the Japanese army. Once a military doctor found out that he had a venereal disease, the junior officer would be demoted two ranks in a row, and the soldier would never be promoted.Soldiers suffering from sexually transmitted diseases did not dare to seek medical treatment from military doctors, so they went to hospitals in the city to buy expensive injections and inject them secretly.Acupuncture and medicine are too expensive, and military pay alone is not enough. "At that time, the Chinese always carried some cash with them, and the Japanese soldiers openly robbed passers-by of their money in broad daylight, and then went to buy medicine for treatment, without feeling guilty at all." Back then, not only Yoshio Suzuki, but almost all the devils were the same, and they didn't feel guilty at all. "The atrocities and despicable acts of Japan today are complementary to their pre-war atrocities and despicable acts, and they all stem from the same racial character." Lin Yutang said in "Why Japan Must Defeat": "Japan's technological and military Has reached the level of the imperialist powers, yet it remains utterly unqualified morally." The Japanese are "pathetic ignorance of China" and "hope the pressure from this barbarism will force the Chinese to become morally Corruption, to the point of giving up resistance. Of course, the result is just the opposite.”He believes that "the Japanese are too determined and too lacking in sense of humor to give up the irrational mission of bombing, massacring, and ravaging China to make them abandon their anti-Japanese attitudes, and before they really exhaust themselves, How sad that these actions will not stop until the entire nation commits seppuku!" In 1945, Japan was defeated. Kaneko Anci, together with other prisoners of war, was sent to a labor camp in Siberia, the Soviet Union, for five years. "I became a prisoner because I fought for the emperor. I thought the emperor would come to save me. However, after 3 or 4 years, he still hasn't come. I couldn't bear the malnutrition and forced labor, and almost lost my life." .” In July 1950, as one of the 969 war criminals repatriated to China and imprisoned, Kaneko Yasuji entered the Fushun War Criminal Management Center. Here, war criminals are treated humanely.According to Yasuji Kaneko, based on the policy of "treating prisoners as human beings and respecting their dignity", the Chinese government strictly forbids all corporal punishment and insulting words and deeds against war criminals by the staff of the management station.The relatives of many employees were killed by the Japanese army. Facing their enemies, they did not beat or scold them.The meals of the war criminals are higher than those of the staff: the staff eat sorghum rice, and the war prisoners eat rice. As for the humanitarian stance of the Chinese, "At that time, I was most grateful for this. None of us would deny it. We never thought that they would treat us like this. We really felt that the warmth of the Chinese people seeped in." Kaneko Yasuji said, however, here, he never really faced up to and reflected on his past from the bottom of his heart, and did not confess all the crimes he had committed. In July 1956, as one of the 328 war criminals released back to China, Kaneko Yasuji returned to Japan, where he had been violating for 16 years.At the same time, Yoshio Suzuki, who was reformed at the Fushun War Criminals Management Center, also returned to China. Returning to their own country, the war criminals felt a chill in their hearts. Kaneko Yasuji said that people around them looked at them who had returned from the "red country" with colored glasses, thinking that they had been brainwashed. "For about two years, there was constant police surveillance. Everyone." He lost his job as a result.Amidst police surveillance and social prejudice, it is difficult to rebuild one's own life. Kaneko Yasuji started a small business, became a family, and finally settled down. When the youngest daughter was 5 years old, she was hospitalized with a fever. In the dead of night, Anji Kaneko remembered the child who jumped into the well, and the memory lingered. "When I was a soldier, what did I do in China? That's when I woke up from a dream." Kaneko Anji began to be condemned by conscience. "I will never forget the things in China. I can't mention these things in China to my children and my wife." He said, "When my children gave birth, I remembered that well My child. Anyway, whenever I see a child, I think of this incident, and it hurts very much.” All the past is buried deep in his heart, and everything seems to be unknown.His wife, who was always by his side, didn't ask any questions. In fact, the wife understands everything.When the reporter visited Anji Kaneko's house for an interview, his wife hid in a small room and knelt in front of the Buddha statue to chant sutras. Yoshio Suzuki's wife didn't know about the crimes her husband committed in the war until her husband was interviewed for the first time.Later, whenever the husband was interviewed, the wife would hide from the house because of embarrassment. Suzuki Yoshio said slowly: "For a long time, this kind of guilt caused by the discovery of conscience has been tormenting me deeply. I did something bad. Although I didn't think I had done something bad at the time, afterward, I felt that I It’s a really heartless thing to do.” "I feel the same way as Suzuki. If they (war victims) are in front of you, you must apologize to them." Kaneko Yasuji lowered his head. In December 2000, at the International War Criminals Tribunal for Violations of Women's Rights in Tokyo, former Army Chief Cao (Sergeant) Suzuki Yoshio and former Army Corps Chief (Corporal) Kaneko Yasuji sat on the witness stand, discussing the sex crimes committed by the Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield. Violent crimes, forced summoning of comfort women, etc. to testify.Anji Kaneko finally said: "The same mistakes cannot be made again. To prevent the same mistakes from happening again, we can only tell everyone that we are still alive." An old man who was forced to work as a comfort woman said after listening: "Now, I can forgive the Japanese soldiers, and I can finally live for my own life." In November 2001, in Tokyo, at the testimonial meeting of Liu Mian, who was forced by the Japanese army to be a comfort woman, for the elderly, Kaneko Yasuji spoke: "I am a war criminal, and I was already prepared to be sentenced to death. No matter what, we killed so many The Chinese people, rape, and arson should of course be sentenced to death. But China has never mentioned the death penalty. In order to atone for our sins, we must make public the actual situation of Japan’s aggressive war at that time, so we confess our crimes in front of everyone.” Kaneko Anji said: "We are indeed extremely evil people. The victims see us as if they are seeing ghosts. But who turned us into ghosts? No one likes to be ghosts." Some of the devils in those days refused to repent and justified their crimes. Some of the ghosts of those days kept silent and took the shame to the grave. Some devils from that year used actions to atone for their sins in the second half of their lives and became human again. In August 1937, Dong Shiro, who was recruited into the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, used the publication of war diaries as a way of atonement. Toshiro participated in the Nanjing Massacre which began in December 1937, and returned to Japan after surrendering to the Chinese army in Shanghai in August 1945. In 1987, he compiled the diaries he wrote during his stay in China into "Diary in the Battlefield" and "Notes". In December of the same year, he published "Our Nanjing Infantry Regiment--A Convoy to Experience the Nanjing Massacre" based on his diary. " was published in Japan and later in China, that is.In the book, Dong Shiro exposed the brutal acts of the Japanese army and apologized to the Chinese people.He wrote, "The fact that the Japanese army has harmed the Chinese people is clearly revealed, and we should reflect on it." "Toshiro may always be hated by the Chinese, but I believe that clarifying the truth and deeply introspecting are the basis of Japan-China friendship , that’s why I made the diary public.” Since December 1987 when Higashishiro rushed to Nanjing from Japan to participate in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, Higashishiro went to China seven times to apologize.In Japan, he was besieged by right-wing forces, calling him a "traitor", a "traitor", "a disgrace to the old soldier", and "deserving death". Devil, lingering. The veterans of the Japanese invaders who are still alive are all senile. 70 years have passed, and some people still keep the enlistment postcard that year.The postcard of Tamio Kawamura reads: "Notice of Enlistment: Limited to reporting to the Third Army in the Central Region at 8:00 am on April 1, Showa 18th Year (1943)." Each word travels through time and space, as if mixed with gunpowder smoke, Gore and sigh. "From this day on, I and my everything were handed over to this postcard of 15 cents." Kawamura Taimio wrote in his memoirs, "On the day of enlistment, the weather was very sunny. When I came to the camp gate When I was walking, an indescribable emotion stopped me. Is it because of fear? Is it because of the majestic sentry standing in front of the camp gate? Or the shouts from the barracks, or because the bridge in front of me is The door to death?" can't have lust forget about your family never show emotion do everything the hardest way possible don't make yourself easy punish your own desire for comfort, food and water Silently endure pain and hardship so you will be a son of heaven Born without the humiliation of captives Die without the stigma of guilt According to the "Investigation Form on People's Losses During the Eight-Year Anti-Japanese War in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region", 363,000 women were raped in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region, and 122,000 of them suffered from sexually transmitted diseases. The Japanese army committed an unprecedented mass rape of Chinese women in Nanjing. In less than five weeks, more than 20,000 Chinese women were raped by the Japanese army.At that time, Tiansuo Kozo, a first-class soldier in the 114th Division of the Japanese Army, confessed: "Women are the biggest victims. No matter they are old or young, they all suffer. The women are loaded on the coal truck from Xiaguan, locked in the village, and then Distributed to the soldiers. One woman can be used by 15 to 20 people." "There is no soldier who does not rape, and most women are killed after they rape." As soon as the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, the Fushun and Taiyuan War Criminals Management Centers were established, accommodating 1,109 Japanese war criminals in total. In 1956, most of these war criminals were released and returned to Japan. In 1957, they established the Liaison Association of Chinese Returnees (hereinafter referred to as "China Guilian"). Through symposiums, exhibitions, street publicity, writing memoirs, testimonials, etc., they reported their killings, plundering, War crimes such as rape, arson, and sabotage came out to express their introspection.The Japan-China Friendship Association once produced a video film "Testimonies - War of Aggression (From Humans to Ghosts, From Ghosts to Humans)" which included their testimony.The China Guild was disbanded in 2002.

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