Chapter 34 postscript

The summer in Tokyo, Japan is similar to the summer in Shanghai, China. It is already late September, and the heat is still not abating in the slightest. It was September 28, 1990, and I took the subway from Yokohama to Ginza, Tokyo for more than an hour.This is the busiest business district in Tokyo.The colorful and grotesque billboards dazzle the eyes, and the samples in the shop windows are displayed in various poses and with different expressions, making people dizzy.I didn't go into any of the stores, but focused on looking for the Fukuhara Building of "Ginza 3-chome 12-12-banme".

After searching for half an hour, I finally found it.Walk into the building, take the elevator to the third floor.An office on the third floor was divided into two halves, one half of which was the "China Returnee Liaison Association" that I wanted to visit. As soon as I entered the room, two thin old men stood up and shook hands with me enthusiastically, asked me to sit down, and offered me tea.I saw that there was only a writing desk, a bookshelf, four chairs, and two sets of filing cabinets in the room, and the arrangement was very simple and plain. Through mutual self-introduction, I found out that the smaller old man is Mr. Tominaga Shozo, the chairman of the Liaison Association, and the taller old man is Mr. Takahashi Tetsuro, the director of the Liaison Committee's affairs bureau.

After the two old people knew my purpose of coming, they warmly introduced to me the work of promoting Japan-China friendship carried out by the Liaison Club as if they were old friends. The China Returnees Liaison Association was established in the autumn of 1956, and its members are former Japanese war criminals released from China. Over the past 30 years since the establishment of the Liaison Association, members have carried out various activities against war, striving for peace, and promoting Japan-China friendship under difficult conditions, and have achieved great results. The bookshelves are full of various books, audio tapes and video tapes written, edited and published by themselves.

Most of the books are memoirs, recalling the crimes they committed during their participation in the aggressive war in China. These books, audio tapes, and video tapes have caused huge repercussions in Japanese society.They revealed the truth about the war of aggression launched by Japanese imperialism to the Japanese people, especially the younger generation, so that the Japanese people would not forget the lessons of history, and served as a lesson for the past and a guide for the future. Just a month ago, NHK, the largest TV station in Japan, broadcast the video edited and published by the Liaison Committee.Since another guest came, I stood up and said goodbye. The two old people enthusiastically took 5 books from the bookshelf and presented them to me. "What We Did in China" and so on.

When I said that I would translate these memoirs into Chinese and publish them in China after returning to China, they were very happy. They thought it was a very meaningful thing and welcomed me to do so.Then, they sent me outside the building and took a group photo with me. Two new visitors, Ms. Tomoko Yamazaki and Mr. Kanai, a famous female writer, also participated in the group photo. Afterwards, I wrote a few words on the back of the photo: In June 1992, Comrade Yang Guizhen and I started translation work after returning from Japan.We successively translated "Sanguang—What the Japanese Did in China" (published in August 1982), "Aggression—Confessions of Japanese War Criminals in China" (1984) written, edited, and published by the China Returnees Liaison Association. Published in July, 1990), "Aggression—A Record of Experience and Reflection" (published in 1990) and three memoirs, and then selected more than 30 most valuable articles from them and compiled this book.

The "Preface 1" and "Preface 2" of this book are translated from the "Preface" and "Postscript" of "Aggression - Confessions of Japanese War Criminals in China". Thanks to the strong support and enthusiastic help of the Military Editorial Office of PLA Press, this book was successfully published. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks!At the same time, I would also like to express my gratitude to Chairman Tominaga Shozo, Director of Affairs Tetsuro Takahashi, and former Director of Affairs of Yamanaka Morinosuke. 1995 is the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.This book is dedicated to the countless martyrs who died heroically in the Anti-Japanese War and the tens of thousands of people who were brutally killed by the Japanese invaders!