History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
In the 1930s and 1940s, China was caught in a protracted war against aggression, and after a bitter struggle, China finally won the victory, and after the end of the war, many war criminals were tried, one of whom was originally sentenced to death, but was acquitted after showing a thing.
The war criminal's name was Li Xianglan. Although she was born in Liaoning, China, her parents are Japanese, and she also has her own Japanese name, Shuko Yamaguchi. She took the Chinese name Li Xianglan at the age of 13 and began to learn to sing systematically. A few years later, Li Xianglan completed his studies.
At that time, the puppet state of Manchukuo packaged her as a singer and pushed her to the people. She sang beautifully, and she was sweet-looking, and she was soon welcomed by people and became a hit. Four years later, she went to Shanghai to shoot films, and soon became a famous movie star at that time.
However, in Li Xianglan's acting career, many works are propagandized for the Japanese and whitewashed their crimes of aggression. It is also for this reason that after Japan surrendered, the government sentenced Li Xianglan to adultery and planned to execute him.
While she was waiting for her execution, a Japanese man sent her a certificate of nationality. She showed it to the government of the day, which saved her from the death penalty. This nationality clearly states that Li Xianglan is Japanese, and that her involvement in aggression against Japan is a work for her own country, and naturally she cannot be tried according to Chinese law, and finally she was released by the government.
Li Xianglan then returned to Japan and changed back to her real name, Shuko Yamaguchi. During her life in Japan, she gradually realized the crimes of Japan's invasion of China and regretted what she had done in the past. In her later years, she devoted herself to Sino-Japanese friendly exchanges and visited China many times. She lived until she was 94 years old and made her own contribution to Sino-Japanese diplomacy.