Former U.S. Army captain Chiang Matthew Bunker Ridgway wrote in his book The Korean War: "We later realized that Chinese were strong and fierce fighters who often attacked regardless of casualties. However, we find that they are more civilized enemies than the Koreans. On many occasions, they shared what little food they had with their captives and took a friendly attitude towards them. ”
The Geneva Conventions have detailed provisions on how to treat prisoners of war, but the Convention lacks strong restraints for violators. Just as the atrocities committed by Japan and the United States against prisoners of war were condemned only morally and publicly.
However, China has done a very good job in this regard, adhering to the nature of a peace-loving power, and without any constraints, China has achieved preferential treatment of prisoners.
China once captured the niece of a Japanese division commander, and after she was captured, she gave birth to a son, who for 30 years searched for relatives.
The captive japanese couple turned out to be the niece of the commander of the Japanese division
In early 1941, Huang Kecheng, commander of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, sent the third brigade to attack the Japanese stronghold at the Nianzhuang Station of the Longhai Railway, with the intention of pulling out this tumor that endangered the base area.
In the middle of the night on March 14, the three teams sent an 11-man plainclothes team into the station house and quickly eliminated the six ghosts in the station. In the freight room on the east side of the platform, they also caught a pair of young Japanese men and women.
After interrogation, they learned that the young man and woman, the man's name was Yamanaka Seiichi, a student at Waseda University in Japan, and his father was the head of the Xuhai section of the Longhai Railway. The woman's name is Nobuko Ota, a 22-year-old student at Kyushu University in Japan. The two are a couple who come to China for tourism.
It is worth mentioning that this Ota Nobuko's background is not ordinary, and his uncle is the commander of the Isoya Ryosuke Division of the Japanese army invading China in Xuzhou. This Isoya Rinsuke was one of the four major Chinese masters during the Showa period in Japan, a lieutenant general in the army, and the first governor of Hong Kong during the Japanese rule.
According to the "Jongyama Wind and Rain 2019.04 Issue" record: Ryosuke Isoya, who invaded China, was born in 1886 in the family of the old Shinoyama clan in Hyogo Prefecture, and graduated from the 16th class of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in 1904... He came to China in 1917 and served as the commander of the Lieutenant General Division of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army invading China.
After the Japanese youth married in Xuzhou, they went to Nianzhuang to visit Ota's cousin. His cousin, who served as the squad leader at the station, had been killed in previous battles.
The Japanese retaliated, and the soldiers had no choice but to kill Aoichi Yamanaka
After learning that the Japanese youth had been captured, the Japanese army in Xuzhou was greatly annoyed. They gathered more than 10,000 people, carried out a major sweep of northern Jiangsu, and divided their troops into 4 roads to surround the base area, in an attempt to eliminate the New Fourth Army in one fell swoop and save 2 prisoners.
As a result, the New Fourth Army was in contact with the Japanese army. In order not to let the two prisoners escape, they were held separately. Unexpectedly, while escorting Yamanaka Aoichi, he suddenly attacked the escorted soldiers and snatched a gun and injured a soldier.
Therefore, the crowd had no choice but to kill Yamanaka Aoiichi. The Japanese swept for 11 days and finally returned without success.
Ota was given preferential treatment and gave birth to a son with her husband, who was a member of the Anti-War Alliance
On the other side, Ota Nobuko was escorted to the headquarters of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army in Yuhong County. At the division headquarters, she received preferential treatment, and slowly she integrated into the life of the New Fourth Army. Under the repeated enlightenment of the Japanese anti-war activist Isamu Goto, Ota Yasuko also became an anti-war ally.
In the winter of 1943, Nobuko Ota married Shoji Yari, a Japanese member of the Anti-War Alliance. In May 1944, Ota Gave birth to a son, named "Magada".
On September 15, in order to prompt the emperor to surrender early, the leader of the Japanese Anti-War Alliance, Noizaka Sanzo, ordered all members of the Anti-War Alliance to return to Japan secretly. For the sake of convenience of action, no one is allowed to bring their families and children, and the remaining problems can be solved.
Therefore, Ota Anderson and her husband secretly returned to Japan, and before leaving, they were arranged by the underground organization to give their son to a man named Liu Fengying to raise. Liu Fengying's husband, Liu Yifu, is an underground worker. Later, they named the Japanese child Liu Taishan, and the tai character in the name was the first word of his birth mother, Ota Nobuko.
The Liu family endured the white eyes to raise Liu Taishan and help him find relatives for decades
In the coming decades, the Liu family will be blinded by the Japanese adopted son. For this Japanese adopted son, the Liu family once asked for food, escaped the wilderness, and also ate wild vegetables.
In 1972, his adoptive father, Liu Yifu, was promoted to deputy political commissar of the Yangzhou Military Region. Therefore, he told him about the life of his adopted son Liu Taishan, and asked him to return to Japan to find relatives. When Liu Yifu died in 1988, he also wrote in his will: "Please organize yourself to come forward and continue to search for Liu Taishan's Japanese relatives."
More than 70 years have passed, and Liu Taishan has also become an old man. After returning to Japan, Ota wrote only once to tell Liu that they had settled in Osaka. But since then, there has been no more news. Therefore, Liu Taishan is not sure whether he still has relatives in Japan.
brief summary
Nowadays, if Ota Nobuko is still alive, then she is already more than a hundred years old, if she did not inform Liu Taishan's descendants before she died, or if there were no descendants at all, then Liu Taishan's search for relatives for half a lifetime is likely to be empty, hoping that he can find his lost relatives in his lifetime!
References: "Korean War", "Zhong ShanFengyu 2019.04"