Chapter 2 Prologue (2)

Write down our war and life experiences in notes.This proposal was put forward by some friends in the Fushun War Criminals Management Office at the end of 1955. There are seven houses in Fushun's management office, plus the wards.Each building is assigned a number, and they are called "One", "Second". Each "station" has 8-16 cells.At that time, each prison cell in the prison could freely travel, but there were certain restrictions on the movement between prisons. Learning, cultural activities, sports activities, etc. are all organized through consultation and joint cooperation with the institution as the unit.Therefore, the learning progress, living system, etc., are different from each other.

The war criminal management centers in Fushun and Taiyuan housed a total of 1,062 war criminals.They have worked in various jobs such as soldiers, police officers, local officials, and secret agents in the past.Age, personality, health, appearance, etc. all have their own characteristics, and their birthplaces, environments, and educational levels also vary widely; their status in the army or institutions varies greatly from generals to privates.In terms of religion, there are Christians and Buddhists of the Hua Sect. From this point of view, their outlook on life is also different.Dissatisfaction with abstinent life, deep love for relatives and family members, old national concepts and natural principles and human relationships, awareness of the responsibility and crime of war, views on life and death, as well as ideological views, labor views, etc. all have materialistic ideas. On the difference between idealism and idealism.All these differences are great disadvantages. They have thousands of different opinions on various issues!

During this process, we saw the ever-changing post-war world situation on the one hand, and on the other hand, we learned about the situation in our motherland, Japan, and finally realized that it is time for us to admit our crimes in the war to the Chinese government. During this period, we broke the habit of living in units.With the approval of our superiors, we have established a study committee that has the right to independently arrange various activities such as study, life, culture, and sports in the entire management institute.This incident made us extremely happy, and it also encouraged us to build confidence in moving forward.

Writing notes was developed in this environment and mental state. After a long period of introspective life, we have increased the depth of our understanding of war in various senses.To record the true mood and actions at that time, in other words, to liberate myself from the shackles of the fascist war of aggression that put people in the dark. It can be said that this is the result of our war criminals who have lost their humanity. . As a war criminal, our responsibility is to confess our guilt before the people's trial, and to write out our true thoughts without any disguise, so that the people of the world can learn a certain lesson. This is a more or less contribution to peace.At that time, according to our crime, even if the sentence is death, we can rest in peace.

In this way, the matter of writing notes was extended to the entire management office. In any case, after finishing elementary school, we seldom even wrote letters, and when it came to writing articles, we were even more inexperienced. As soon as I started to write, I felt very difficult.Even the person who wrote the article first felt that it was not an easy task. First, these experiences are extremely terrifying things that make people tremble all over as long as they are recalled. It would be a shameful thing for relatives to see and talk about it as a topic! Second, if these articles are published, family members in Japan may be implicated. We also have concerns about this.

There are also problems in the way of expression.Some articles write people as people without thought, flesh and blood, and emotion; some articles, in order to describe the extremely brutal Japanese soldiers, are written with emotions, wolves, tigers, lions, monkeys, hungry dogs, and wild cats. , snakes, green ghosts, red ghosts, etc. all came up, and it was written like a zoo. As soon as I write it, the pain in my heart is unbearable.Sometimes, I was so angry that I dropped my pen and lamented that I had personally committed such a serious crime, lamented the deep-rooted poison of militarism, and unknowingly, I had become such a heartless and insensitive person.

What is recorded in the diary is all Japanese, and it is also a shame for mankind.It takes a lot of courage to write this.We have met several times to discuss this issue and try to dispel our worries. This is indeed the case. However, didn't we call this ferocious and ruthless behavior "jihad" in the past!We still remember the scene at that time clearly without exaggerating, so what is there to worry about? It will please our friends and relatives if they see that we have become truth-tellers. Notebooks are for us the field of serious repentance and self-reformation. This notebook is a natural product of our own enthusiasm for ideological transformation, without any external coercion, and it is not a literary creation or communication report, and it does not correspond to any literary genre.This is a true record that we have written down with a pen we are not used to under the domination of an involuntary force. It is our personal experience and a confession about the war of aggression after reflection.

The dozens of articles collected here are all facts.In particular, it should be pointed out that those content based on the actual war, if compared with the real scale and disaster of the war, it is just a drop in the bucket. However, despite this, readers can still understand how the Japanese militarism and us war criminals inhumanely and brutally exercised tyranny and power over the Chinese people.These tragic facts are by no means solely caused by the abnormal character of a certain person. The root cause is precisely the aggressive nature of war.When we hear those fairy tales about the "strict military discipline" and "mercy" of the "imperial army", we must realize that, from the standpoint of the people who have suffered aggression and watched their relatives being slaughtered at will, this is not true. Everything is hatred, and the "imperial army" are all demons in human skin.

We both regret and hate our past, so we swear that we will never commit such a crime again.Among the Japanese people, no one is willing to send their relatives to the battlefield again to experience the sorrow and pain, to experience the disaster of the atomic bomb. We will never allow our motherland, Japan, to push our lovely young people into war again, and never allow their youth and happiness to be used as bait for atomic weapons. Our wish now is: to return to the land of Japan and live a peaceful, happy and hardworking life with our parents, brothers, sisters and children.We will establish solid friendship with the peace-loving people all over the world, especially the new Chinese people who suffered directly from our aggression and now extend a warm hand to the Japanese people for the sake of peace, and jointly build The eternal paradise of mankind.

It is from this desire that we all wrote this notebook.