Chapter 12 10. Murderer Ishii Shiro

There is a Pingfang Railway Station on the Labin Line in the southeastern suburb of Harbin. On the large piece of cultivated land to the south of the bungalow, a group of black and purple tall buildings that make people feel eerie from the outside have been built. High walls were built around the buildings to tightly isolate them from the outside, and a barbed wire fence was specially installed outside the walls.Seeing these buildings from the train, the first thing people are surprised is that there are extremely tall chimneys that are very inconsistent with the environment.This is the Bacteriological Research Institute known as the "Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply"-the Ishii Force of the Japanese Army.

This is a special military zone. Like a military fortress, it is a forbidden area where no one is allowed to set foot without the permission of the commander of the Kwantung Army.When the Japanese army was defeated, they were afraid of revealing their secrets, so they razed it to the ground with explosives. Japanese imperialism has always refused to sign international treaties banning the use of bacteria and poisonous gases.They believe that bacteria and poisonous gas are the cheapest and most effective means of killing, and they began to prepare for bacterial attack at the Tokyo Army Medical School a long time ago.At the same time, an experimental base using Chinese as experimental materials was established in "Fengtian Medical University".The one who guides this conspiracy is the public enemy of mankind - Shiro Ishii.

After the "September 18th" Incident, the Emperor of Japan ordered the establishment of Unit 731, the Ishii Unit, in order to prepare for a large-scale bacterial attack.When a wounded beast struggles for the last time, it often shows unprecedented cruelty and savagery. In January 1942, before going to Pingfang to inspect the bacteria experiment, Shiro Ishii said this to Hara Mori, Commander of the Kanto Gendarmerie, and Yoshiba Torao (the author of this article—translator’s note) Speech: "The first characteristic of bacterial attack warfare is its great effectiveness. Cannonballs and bombs made of steel can only kill people within a certain range around them, and the injured will soon heal and can participate in the battle again. Bacteria Not only can its effectiveness be spread from person to person and from village to village, but its poison can penetrate deep into the human body, and its death rate is much higher than that of artillery shells and bombs. In addition, once injured, it is very difficult to heal. It's hard to expect these guys to go into battle again."

What a ferocious face of a bloodthirsty hungry ghost!He went on to say: "The second characteristic of germ attack warfare is that it is the most suitable method of warfare for Japan, which lacks iron and steel, and requires the lowest expenditure. Of course, many problems still need to be studied, but there are insufficient experimental materials. It is absolutely impossible!" After hearing these words, Ji Fang, of course, was overwhelmed with admiration, saying yes again and again.He believes that preparations for participating in the germ warfare is one of the important tasks that the military police should complete at the important moment when the Pacific War just broke out.

Commander Yuan Shou asked Ji Fang in the car on his way home: "How is it? It's an eye-opener!" Ji Fang replied: "Yes, this is too important. As soon as I go back, I will definitely order to strengthen cooperation with Ishii's troops!" After Ji Fang finished speaking, Yuan Mamoru said: "Okay, it's decided like this!" He gave the order on the spot. For the Japanese military police who have completely lost their humanity and conscience, humanitarianism and international law are irrelevant. After the "September 18th" Incident, the Japanese imperialists claimed to impose "severe punishment" on Northeast China, and openly authorized all local troops to massacre the Chinese people at will.However, due to the persistent struggle of the Chinese anti-Japanese fighters, in 1937, the Japanese army had to announce the cessation of "severe punishment" on the surface.

Since then, the Kwantung Army Commander Ueda Kenkichi, Chief of Staff Hideki Tojo, Military Doctor Ishii Shiro, Staff Officer Yamaoka Michitake, Kwantung Gendarmerie Commander Tanaka Seiichi, Police Minister Kaji Eijiro, and member Matsuura Katsumi. A new plan to massacre the Chinese people was secretly formulated to replace this "severe punishment".That is, Chinese people should be regarded as living materials for cultivating bacteria. At the end of 1937, the Kwantung Army Command issued the secret order "Regulations on Special Transfer Handling".The so-called "special transfer treatment" means that Chinese people are illegally arrested by the gendarmerie and puppet Manchukuo police. As long as anyone is identified as a "felony criminal", they can be transferred from the gendarmerie to the Ishii army without trial, and they can be used as bacterial experiments material and tortured to death.

In August 1941, Lieutenant Colonel Ji Fang, the newly appointed Chief of the Third Section of the Kwantung Gendarmerie Headquarters, wanted to "make achievements" desperately in order to overcome the obstacles on his way to being promoted to Colonel.He is determined to use this visit to Ishii's troops as a good opportunity to climb up, and try his best to increase the "special transfer treatment" score.Therefore, he ordered the strengthening of radio reconnaissance under the pretext of "foreign espionage". He not only encouraged the gendarmerie to do so, but also issued bonuses and certificates, and asked the following to increase the number of "special transfers" by various means.

Regarding Ji Fang's order, the subordinate gendarmerie captains stared at the bait like a leopard looking for food.The gendarmes were also red-eyed.They "contributed meritorious service" one after another in order to obtain "certificates" and "bonuses", as well as "promotion" and "promotion". In 1941, Masao Horiguchi, captain of the Jixi Gendarmerie, and Tsuda, the captain of the Banjiehe Detachment, fabricated a charge of spying on secrets in order to promote themselves, and imposed them on three kind-hearted ordinary Chinese people near the border. Special Transfer Treatment".

In 1943, Kiichi Kobayashi, chief of the Special High Section of the Mukden Gendarmerie, arrested two patriots under the pretext of spying on the Japanese army. After failing to "instigate rebellion" against them, they were sent for "special transfer". In 1944, Mudanjiang Gendarmerie Captain Takeshi Hiraki arrested his subordinate, Major Imabeppu, according to the rumors of the traitors, saying that he was an intelligence officer of the Chinese Communist Party, and tortured him brutally for a long time, leaving him injured and disabled. He couldn't leave, so he was finally sent for "special transfer treatment".

In 1940, Lieutenant Colonel Jiao Wufu, captain of the Jiamusi Gendarmerie, wanted to build a ladder for himself to be promoted to a senior colonel earlier than others, so he thought hard about the idea. In particular, "teaching at home" has been thoroughly researched.So, starting from here, he fabricated an anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese blacklist that included quite a few Chinese.Then, he arrested these dozens of peaceful residents in one fell swoop.All kinds of torture methods have been used, but because there is no basis in the first place, of course the expected results cannot be obtained.So, according to the plan he had already made in his mind, he sent more than a dozen people to Ishii's troops as "special transfers" through the hands of the military police.Needless to say, this so-called "excellent achievement" laid the foundation for him to become the section chief of the gendarmerie headquarters and be promoted to a colonel.

In August 1944, Lieutenant Colonel Shangping Tieyi, who became the captain of the Jining Gendarmerie, thought about his future promotion day and night.At the beginning of November of that year, he finally arrested 15 people, including Ms. Zhang Yuhuan, a kind-hearted farmer living in Pingyang, and her father, under the pretext of spying on the military situation and conducting anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese activities. Shangping urged his subordinates, asking them to grab the "things".Lieutenant Zeng Chang, the head of the Pingyang branch, led 30 gendarmes under his command. It took more than a month to neither let the "prisoners" eat enough, nor let the "prisoners" sleep, and brutally tortured them day and night. Neither caught.Shangping couldn't bear his temper, so he came to Pingyang in person to direct the torture. Ms. Zhang suffered from sunken eye sockets, thin cheeks, disheveled hair, and bruises all over her body.However, she only said one sentence: "I went to the Soviet Union and told them the pain of the Chinese peasants in a desperate situation. What's wrong with that!" Besides, she didn't say a word. As for her old father, his face was bruised and purple from the beating, and he was completely out of shape.He resolutely said: "I was born and raised in China, and I worry about the future of the Chinese people. What's wrong with that? Why do you have any reason to arrest me?" He still had bright eyes and was full of confidence.Seeing the patriotic enthusiasm of these Chinese people like a burning fire, Shangping trembled with anger.He thought that the interrogation had been conducted for a month without any results, so it seemed that it could not continue.However, it would be impossible to let them out with such scars.What's more, he had already reported this "major incident of reporting 15 people" to the headquarters.In any case, make this matter your own "achievement".Therefore, he sent Ms. Zhang and the 6 people with the most severe wounds, including her father, to Ishii's army as "special transfer treatment". In this way, the gendarmerie teams from all over the country continued to communicate with the Harbin gendarmerie under the name of "special transfer processing", using code words such as "send a few logs (Marutai)" and "send a few pieces of luggage".Patriots treated in this way came to Harbin Railway Station, were sent to the Harbin Gendarmerie, and then to the Harbin Secret Service, where they were beaten to death in the detention center for interrogation, and were sent to Ishii in a special truck until late at night. Force this last hell. In 1942, there were at least 150 Chinese patriots who were "specially transferred" by the gendarmerie in this way. In addition, including the patriots sent by the Secret Service and the Puppet Security Bureau, in the nine years from 1937 to 1945, at least 4,000 people were killed by Ishii's troops. These 4,000 patriots were brutally murdered in the house of the Ishii troops that I visited in January 1942. During that visit, I followed Ishii and Hara Mori and walked in with trepidation. Starting from the main entrance of the Ishii Army, we walked through several thick and strong doors in succession, and then walked through a corridor about 1.5 meters wide and 15 meters long.Turn right from here, there is a small corridor.On both sides of the small corridor were cells side by side with iron bars.This is the place where people are specially infected with the plague.In the first cell, a man of about forty years old, who looked like a Chinese worker and was dressed in light blue, was lying on his back to receive the plague infection.In the dim light of the cell, his pale, blind face looked like a wax figure.I don't know if he was tied tightly and couldn't move, or he was injected with anesthesia, but he lay there like a dead body. In an adjoining cell, a skinny man in his mid-thirties sat with his hands tied behind his back.A military doctor in rubber clothes, rubber shoes, a gas mask, and rubber gloves was holding the man's fist-sized buttocks, allowing fleas to bite him and infect him with plague bacteria.The man was so thin that his shoulders seemed to be falling off, and he was wearing a torn and thin dress.From the holes in his clothes, he could clearly see that there were five ulcers with a diameter of about one inch on his corpse-like chest, and the entire chest was red and swollen. "This is the trace left by Yersinia pestis infection," Ishii explained to us.Then he added: "The plague patient is characterized by a tottering gait." The man was whipped by the military doctor with a whip and stood up. He only took two or three steps forward, and then fell down with a thud, letting out a long cry. We came to the end of the small corridor, turned to the right, and saw three men dressed as peasants.They were about thirty-five or sixteen years old, and they sat there in handcuffs and shackles, with their knees together and their hands on them.All three were emaciated, but their six eyes were burning with anger, and their gazes shot at our faces like arrows. Their eyes reflected the faint light that came in through the small dim window, and they stared at me like will-o'-the-wisps, which made me feel like a bucket of cold water was being poured on my head, and I shivered all over. "This is where the frostbite experiment was performed," explains Ishii. The five fingers of those people were all rotten from the second joint. At the place where the severed head was severed, they were red and white, rotten and sticky.This is the experimental result caused by pouring water at zero temperature or water at the same body temperature after the hands were frostbitten first. The three people who sat there with extreme anger and extreme pain stared at Ishii, as if they were about to pounce on him. We walked along this corridor for about 3 meters, turned left, and came to the dissection room.There are three military doctors standing at the door and looking into the room.When they saw Ishii, they saluted together. In the center of the room about 3 meters wide is a large dissecting table.The torso of a human body was placed on the stage, the ribs were clearly visible one by one, and the blood dripped onto the concrete floor, emitting a dark black light.The skull was sawed open, and the head with the brains flowing out was placed on the right side of the human torso.The severed limbs were piled up in the right corner of the room.The unpleasant stench of blood in the room went straight into his nose. "After dissection, the corpses were thrown into the furnace and burned. In order to reduce the smell of burning corpses, the chimney was specially built high. Some of the military doctors who worked in this dissecting room later became lunatics." A sneer appeared on Ishii's face, explaining this. In this way, some of the 4,000 patriots were implanted with germs such as cholera, plague, typhoid, and dysentery, and died of illness; Some people died from gunshot experiments. In short, they were forced to die with the greatest pain in the world. Those few tall chimneys are belching white smoke high into the sky day and night.The white smoke was filled with the silent and solemn protests of the patriotic martyrs who sacrificed their lives with infinite hatred for Japanese imperialism.That white smoke has turned into a precious cornerstone for the Chinese people to successfully build a peaceful and happy life for mankind.On this cornerstone, the crime of Japanese imperialism's invasion of China was also engraved. Author bio: Born on July 26, 1897 at No. 991, Hisamacho, Isahaya City, Nagasaki Prefecture. In August 1921, he graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy. In October of the same year, he became a second lieutenant of the 6th Cavalry Regiment of Kumamoto. In May 1932, he served as a gendarmerie at the headquarters of the Kumamoto Gendarmerie, and later served as the captain of the gendarmerie in Gangjie, North Pyongan Province, North Korea.From June to December 1932, served as the captain of the Kurume Gendarmerie of the border guards of the Korean Army that invaded Ji'an and Linjiang, China.Later, he served as a member and adjutant of the Tokyo Gendarmerie Command, and was later transferred to the Kanto Gendarmerie Command as a member, third section chief, Dalian Gendarmerie Captain, and adjutant of the Kanto Gendarmerie Command. In August 1944, he served as the captain of the Pyongyang Gendarmerie until the defeat. This article was written when the author was a member of the Kwantung Gendarmerie Command and head of the third section.