The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was the most tragic war in our modern history and caused deep suffering to our people. However, in the War of Resistance Against Japan, countless national heroes and geniuses emerged in our country. Today we will talk about a code-breaking genius in China during the War of Resistance Against Japan, whose name is Chi Buzhou.
Chi Buzhou was born in 1908 and is a native of Minqing County, Fujian Province. When he was a child, his family was very poor, and he did not go to school until he was ten years old, and it was his fifth brother and fifth sister-in-law who provided him with school when he was ten years old. Chi Buzhou is talented and has completed the primary school curriculum in three years. After that, Chi Buzhou was admitted to Fuzhou Yinghua College, and after graduating from high school, he went to Japan to study mechanical and electrical majors. After graduating from high school in Japan, Ikebushi was admitted to the Industrial Department of Waseda University.
Japan's Waseda University is a very famous university in Japan, and it can also be seen from here that Ikebushi is definitely a genius, although he went to school at the age of ten, he was admitted to the most famous Waseda University in Japan, and his IQ is certainly not ordinary.
While in college in Japan, Ikebusu met his Japanese wife, Hideko Shirahama, and married her. On July 7, 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Japan began to invade China in an all-round way, and Chi Buzhou was a Chinese, although he married a Japanese wife, he did not forget his country. After the Japanese invaded China in an all-round way, Chi Buzhou demanded to return to China immediately, and his wife had no choice but to accompany her husband to China.
Chi Buzhou's first stop after returning to China went to Nanjing, when Nanjing was the capital of the Republic of China, but Chi Buzhou was unaccompanied in Nanjing, and he could not find his classmates studying in Japan, and his life could not go on immediately, fortunately, Chi Buzhou was finally taken in by the Nanjing National Government, and the Nanjing National Government was in urgent need of talents who deciphered the Japanese code. In this way, Chi Buzhou became a codebreaker in the organs of the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Although Chi Buzhou did not engage in related work, he was smart and good at summarizing the rules in the process of work, and soon discovered the laws of Japanese military codes and tried to crack Japanese military codes. This was a remarkable achievement at the time, but because of the particularity of code-breaking talents, the Nationalist government covered up Chi Buzhou's exploits, both to protect him and to hide the killer skills for the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In December 1941, Chi Buzhou deciphered the Japanese secret telegram preparing to attack Pearl Harbor and told Chiang Kai-shek, who later told the United States. The United States did not take this information to heart, and four days later the Attack on Pearl Harbor broke out, and the United States suffered heavy losses. Since then, the United States has gradually paid more attention to the intelligence deciphering work of the Central Bureau of Statistics.
In 1943, Ikebushu deciphered an information that Japanese general Yamamoto Fifty-Six was going to inspect, and then he informed Chiang Kai-shek, who in turn informed the United States that the United States had sent fighter jets to intercept Yamamoto Fifty-Six's special plane. During this interception operation, the U.S. military shot down Yamamoto Fifty-Six's special plane, and Yamamoto Fifty-Six died in the jungle. It can be said that Ikebusu was the one who indirectly killed the Japanese general Isoroku Yamamoto.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chi Buzhou opposed the civil war, and he returned to his hometown in Fujian to live a dull life. In 1952, Chi Buzhou was identified as a member of the Central Unification Committee and sentenced to 12 years in prison. In 1963, Chi Buzhou was released from prison and returned to live in Shanghai. In 1983, the Shanghai Municipal High People's Court restored Chi Buzhou's honor and found him not only innocent in the War of Resistance Against Japan, but also credited the country and the people.
However, in the later years of Ikebushu, he left his country and followed his Japanese wife to Japan and lived in Kobe, Japan. In 2003, Chi Buzhou died at the age of 95. After his death, in accordance with his last wishes, the ashes were sent back to China and buried in his hometown.
Resources:
"The Legendary Life of Chi Buzhou", "Chinese Cryptography Genius Chi Buzhou"