War is the means of careerists, the profit is a minority, but the wounded are the majority. In many countries that wage wars, their people did not all like war, but under the influence of fanatical ideas, they gradually went to extremes, but there were also some sober people, such as the Anti-Japanese "Japanese" Nationality of the Eighth Route Army, which was one of the few Japanese who retained reason at that time, and his name was Kobayashi Hirosumi.
1. From monk to aggressor
Kobayashi was not actually a soldier, he was only an abbot of a Japanese temple before he became an invader, and his ancestors were all monks, because in Japanese religious culture, there is no prohibition on monks marrying and having children, and the temple can be maintained in the form of family inheritance. Therefore, as long as Kobayashi Waits until he reaches adulthood, he can inherit the right to operate the temple and live a simple life of abundant food and clothing.
Unfortunately, however, Japan's war of aggression led to a shortage of regular soldiers on the mainland, so they wanted to expand the recruitment of Japanese men, and many people who were originally just students and monks were sent to the battlefield without good formal training, and Kobayashi Hirosumi was one of them.
After being recruited into the Japanese army, Kobayashi was sent to the front line after only six months of training. During the training, Kobayashi Was constantly brainwashed by militarist ideas, and soon he changed from a mild-mannered monk to a machine gunner, burning and looting on the land of China like other Japanese troops, and doing all kinds of evil, until he met the Eighth Route Army.
2. The benevolent nature is awakened
Kobayashi Is not a villain who likes to kill, and it was during a patrol mission that he was arrested by the Eighth Route Army and began another part of his life. The captives thought that he was in a hostile position and would be mistreated, but instead of being treated with any cruelty, kobayashi was taken care of by the Eighth Route Army, which was in stark contrast to the brutal and unscrupulous behavior he had seen in the Japanese army in the past, which made Kobayashi Hirosumi deeply reflect on the behavior of the Japanese army.
On the way to escort Kobayashi Hirosumi, Kobayashi Saw countless people who were brutalized by the Japanese army, and only then did he know how shameful the Behavior of the Japanese Army was, so he quickly decided to break away from the Japanese army and surrender to the Eighth Route Army, hoping to resist the Japanese invasion with them and become a real Eighth Route Army soldier.
After joining the Eighth Route Army, these people became members of the anti-war alliance. Among all the Japanese troops who surrendered, Kobayashi Hirosumi was the one who was the most opposed to the war of aggression against China, and even conducted anti-war education for other soldiers who surrendered in ordinary days, cursing the shameless atrocities of the Japanese army in order to awaken the frenzied mood of the surrendered Japanese army.
After the founding of New China, Kobayashi Hirosumi remained in China to work and live, and did not return to Japan until 1982, when he often wore clothes with the words "serving the people", and then returned to China as long as he had time, participated in various anti-War commemoration activities, and once burst into tears in front of the bronze statue of Chairman Mao and performed military salutes.
Kobayashi Hirosumi was one of the few anti-war Japanese in history, but despite this, China could not forget the pain of aggression, and only by maintaining an enterprising spirit of self-improvement and self-reliance could China enjoy peace forever in the future. In 2019, Kobayashi died in Japan at the age of 99.