In the 1930s, Japan launched an unprecedented war of aggression against China, accompanied by plunder and massacres, a nightmare that lasted for 14 years, pushing the history of the Chinese nation being slaughtered and bullied to the peak. This war showed the world the animalistic nature of the Japanese nation, and its cruelty was embedded in the soul of every Chinese. Regarding Japan's invasion of China, why do Chinese hate it so much?! Countries that have not experienced it cannot be experienced at all, because they have never really felt empathy.
There is a kind of hatred that never diminishes with the passage of time, and this is the hatred of the country and the family, but the practice of one Chinese peasant family has been questioned for a long time. After Japan's surrender, a Henan farmer took in a wounded Japanese soldier, and as a result, he took care of it for 47 years.
After Japan announced its surrender, the Japanese army in China began to retreat one after another, and due to the large number and the urgency of retreating, many Japanese disabled soldiers were regarded as a burden, and Japan abandoned them as if they were our own. One of them, Ishida Higashishiro, a graduate of Tokyo Agricultural College, was sent to China in 1942 to fight in the war, and after the Japanese army retreated, Ishida Higashishiro, who had lost his memory due to a head injury, was reduced to a wandering beggar.
In the autumn of 1946, Sun Bangjun, as usual, got up early to sell mountain goods in the town. A beggar in tattered Japanese military uniform came to him, his hands racing against what he wanted to eat. The people around him angrily said, "This guy is an old man (Japanese), don't give him, starve him to death!" Looking at this trembling Japanese wounded soldier, the kind Sun Bangjun gave him two nest heads.
Who knew that this Japanese wounded soldier devoured and did not leave, but followed Sun Bangjun to his home, and threw himself on his knees, full of tears. The soft-hearted Sun Bangjun took him in despite his hatred of Japan.
At first, the villagers did not understand and blamed him, but later they slowly accepted this "old day", and when the village distributed relief or set aside land for themselves, they would leave a copy for the "old day". Soon Ishida suffered from hemiplegia, and the Sun family raised money everywhere in order to treat him, and finally cured Ishida's illness, but the Sun family owed a huge debt of 100 yuan. In 1964, Sun Bangjun died, and on his deathbed, he instructed his son Sun Baojie and grandson Sun Lufeng: After I pass away, I must take good care of my Japanese uncle and find a way to help him find japanese relatives in the future.
In 1991, when a Japanese division visited China, Sun Baojie gave them a photograph of Ishida, which was brought back to China and published to search for his relatives. In 1992, when the Japanese delegation visited Nanyang, the persevering Sun Baojie took Ishida to meet the visiting members of China, and Yasumichi Tsuda, a veteran of the Japanese army who invaded China, excitedly recognized Ishida, who was Ishida's boss at that time.
It turned out that Ishida still had a younger brother in Japan, and he was thrilled to learn that the countries that had been "killed" for centuries were still alive. The brother who was exiled to a foreign country was taken care of by three generations of Chinese for 47 years in the case of losing his memory, and now the healthy return of Ishida in his 80s makes his brother more excited than touched, 47 years of care, how many people can do it!
Sun Baojie later came to Japan and received unprecedented welcome and courtesy, and the kindness of the Sun family touched countless Japanese people, and almost every day groups or individuals invited him as a guest. When invited to a city tour, the Japanese on the train bowed to Sun Baojie in full carriage to thank him. When the county magistrate of Akita Prefecture saw him, he specially expressed his remorse and apology for the crimes of the Japanese army that invaded China. Later, Japan donated a botanical garden and a primary school in Sun Baojie's hometown, and provided funds to train many groups of students who went to Japan for study.