There are 4 Japanese soldiers buried in the Chinese Martyrs' Cemetery, and Japan's demand for their return was rejected.
Although history is moving forward, what has happened in history should be kept in our hearts and never forgotten. Just like the Japanese war of aggression against China that took place in China's modern history, Through the barbaric and bloody war of aggression, Japan brought endless pain and disaster to the Chinese people, not only swinging a butcher's knife at the unarmed civilians, but also wantonly committing adultery and plunder on the land of China, and looting many precious cultural relics of China to the Japanese mainland.
For this tragic period of history, Japan not only did not face up to the heinous crimes it committed, but even wantonly tampered with Japanese textbooks and historical records, distorting history into another "peaceful" appearance. Speaking of this, we have to remember that in a martyrs' cemetery in China, there are also 4 Japanese soldiers buried, and Japan has repeatedly asked for it to return, but it has been rejected by China, and many people in China have said: Let them continue to kneel.
As for why Japan's request was rejected, the main reason was that the crimes committed by Japan during World War II could not be easily forgiven, and our descendants had no right to forgive them. Since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Japan began to brutally occupy Chinese territory, and although China lost many patriotic soldiers in the resistance, it still could not extinguish the determination of the Chinese to drive out the invaders.
With the sound of a gunshot on September 18, Japan once again launched a war of aggression against China, in which Japan not only used extremely cruel means, but even used to destroy humanity, and the bloody crimes of Japan's 731 unit, the Nanjing Massacre, and so on, were simply too numerous to read, and the whole country united in Japan's aggression and expansion to resist Japan, and people bravely stood up one after another to resist Japan's erosion of China's land.
In Tengchong, Yunnan, which is far away on the southwest border of China, a very tragic war broke out with the Japanese army, in which the Chinese army finally won the war through unremitting efforts for more than a hundred days, and thus ended the history of Yunnan being occupied by the Japanese army. However, in order to achieve this victory, the Chinese army also paid a tragic price of casualties, and after the war, in order to commemorate these sacrificed soldiers, people specially built a martyrs' cemetery here, so that future generations will always remember these heroes of the War of Resistance.
In this cemetery, there is a very special place, that is, there are also 4 Japanese soldiers buried inside, in fact, when burying them, they were opposed by many people, and later after consultation, it was finally decided to bury these 4 Japanese soldiers, kneeling down, which is also a punishment for the crimes they committed.
In the end, the war ended with Japan's unconditional surrender, and after the war, Japan repeatedly made demands that the kneeling Japanese army be returned to Japan, but it was rejected, and the reason was that Japan did not deeply reflect on the war crimes it had committed, and now it was even more afraid to face up to that period of aggression and cover up the war crimes it had committed.
But in the end, everyone knows that Japan has always had that attitude and has never taken the initiative to assume historical responsibility, so these 4 Japanese troops are even less likely to let them take them away, and even many Chinese people say: Let them continue to kneel.
There are 4 Japanese soldiers buried in the Chinese Martyrs' Cemetery, and Japan has repeatedly proposed to return it, but it has been rejected.