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This is an absurd, horrifying event that has really happened in history.
"A desert island", "1 woman", "32 men", "2 pistols"...
The key words of the event, just extracted, are enough to come up with a pretty exciting story in your mind.
And the real events are far more absurd than we think.
Anantahan Island, a small island located in the Mariana Islands of the Pacific Ocean, is 177 km from Saipan.
This small island is not an uninhabited island, on the contrary, before it was discovered by modern civilization, it was inhabited by an indigenous group called the Chamoros.
Because of the abundance of coconuts, after Spain was ruled in 1695, the island became a "dried coconut" manufacturing plant.
In 1944, when World War II broke out, a Japanese company named Nanyang Xingfa operated coconut groves on the island.
At this time, the protagonist of the incident, Kazuko Higa, appears.
At the age of 16, Kazuko came from Okinawa to Saipan to join her brother, and then went to Bakan Island to work as a waiter in a coffee shop on the island.
Kazuko is young and beautiful, capturing the hearts of many young men on the island.
In the end, she selected a handsome teenager, Also born in Okinawa, and married him at the age of 18.
Zhengyi was an employee of Nanyang Xingfa, who was later transferred to Anatahan to supervise and manage the coconut cultivation work of the indigenous people, and the son migrated with him.
At that time, there was another Japanese man on the island, Shoichi's boss, Nakazato (pseudonym).
At this time, Japan and the US military went to war in the Pacific theater, and China's battlefield was gradually defeated and retreated, with internal and external troubles, and it seemed that the defeat was decided.
The lives of Kazuko, Shoichi, and Nakasato in Anatahan can also be called "no han, no matter Wei Jin".
After spending a long time on the island, Kazuko and Nakasato have an ambiguous relationship.
Soon after, Saipan became the center of the fierce battle in the Pacific War, because he was worried about his sister on the island of Pagan, and masaichi left Anatahan.
Less than two days after Zhengyi left, the U.S. military launched an air raid on Anatahan. Kazuko and Nakasato flee to the jungle to escape, saving their lives, but the house has been bombed into a mess.
Fortunately, the 40 pigs and 20 chickens they raised are still alive and can survive on them.
Due to the outbreak of the war, her husband heard nothing, and soon, Kazuko and Nakasato began to live as a couple on Anatahan Island.
The story ends here, so this is just the most boring of the countless bizarre stories of the war.
On June 12, 1944, a fishing boat attacked by American troops came to shore at Anatahan, and 31 Japanese men came down from the boat.
Since there were no return ships, they had to stay on the island.
At first, seeing his compatriots, Kazuko and Nakasato, were extremely excited, so they distributed their food to them and took the initiative to help them treat their injuries.
But this small island, which was originally small, had to bear so many people at once, and the difficulties faced could be imagined, whether it was food or daily necessities, it was under the threat of shortage.
The original pigs and chickens were quickly consumed.
But after all, Robinson alone can domesticate goats, grow food, practice basket weaving, make bread and pottery on a desert island, and presumably these 33 big living people will not starve to death.
They used large metal cylinders that floated together to catch water, ensured drinking water, and began to fish, catching coconut crabs, lizards, rats and other animals to fill their hunger, and quickly grew into the grandfathers of Beiye.
Even, these big masters also learned to make coconut wine and drink from time to time.
The basic diet is solved, like clothes, makeshifts, all fall to this point and pay attention to what.
But the problem is that after drinking and eating, it is easy to think about lust.
At first, this desire can still be curbed a little, after all, there are still indigenous people on the island, and they can't always do something indiscriminate in front of the indigenous people.
But in August 1945, Japan was defeated.
Since then, the US military has repeatedly informed these people that the war is over by going to the island, handing out leaflets, and amplifying loudspeakers, so let's pack up and go home.
Interestingly, these people are very firm in their stance, unmoved, and have always believed that this is a trick of US imperialism to lure the enemy and cannot go out alive or dead.
Even the natives were better than their brains and moved out of the island early to enjoy life.
Well, now there are only 33 of them left.
A desert island, a woman, thirty-two men, well fed.
The next plot direction we have already guessed well -
Rob women.
At first, everyone was able to maintain the dignity of civilized people, so Kazuko and Nakasato immediately held a marriage and suggested that they move away from everyone and see nothing.
But after some time, the group found the wreckage of the US B29 fighter in the mountains, and found 6 parachutes and some canned and other daily necessities, as well as 4 pistols and 70 bullets.
Kazuko used a parachute to make herself two slightly more decent clothes, and also took the initiative to help others sew and mend.
And that bad luck is on those four guns.
Originally the guns were broken, but one man who was proficient in guns fixed two. Then, this man and his other fox friend immediately took the two guns and became powerful.
Friends, classes are born at this time, and guns are equal to power.
With the gun, the two men's status went up, and they naturally stood at the top of the pyramid and took Kazuko as a "trophy".
Since then, the war over Kazuko has officially begun.
Men died one after another bizarrely, from assassination to mingdou, from single-handedness to mass beatings, and the order and legal principles of modern society completely collapsed here.
In just five years, of the original 32 men, only 19 remained.
And Kazuko, just passing between men.
Seeing that the infighting continued like this, there was no benefit to everyone being killed or injured, so the remaining men got together and began to discuss: How to stop the killing?
Interestingly, they didn't look for reasons from themselves, but followed a historically long-standing male mindset —
Red face curse water.
It is because of the existence of Kazuko that we kill each other! Wouldn't killing Kazuko purify?
They were determined to kill Kazuko, but fortunately Kazuko learned the news in advance and escaped, getting help from the American ships.
After returning to Japan after many hardships, Kazuko did not bear to abandon the men on the island, but said their names and circumstances in as much detail as possible.
After that, the men's parents, brothers, and wives were notified one after another and began writing letters to them, writing more than 200 letters in total to be dropped onto the island by U.S. troops.
At the same time, the US military is still getting them out through various means.
Even so, it took the men a whole year to believe that Japan was really defeated and that the war was really over.
Finally, on June 26, Showa 26, all the men on the island surrendered, and all were rescued and returned to Japan.
The story of the desert island's survival was hyped up by the media, so on the day they returned to Japan, a large number of people gathered at Haneda Airport to wait, just to see them.
Two years later, the incident was also filmed by the famous American director Sternberg, called "Anantahan".
The last paragraph of the movie Anantahan is the moment when the men get off the plane.
In the film, one by one, they get off the plane. Waiting for them were smiling faces, singing voices and footage of a large number of reporters, and even security personnel.
Heroic return, isn't it?
But in reality?
Although these men live on desert islands, they can still drink and eat, far from the savages, but they still kill each other in order to compete for women, and finally blame women.
The masses saw him as a hero.
And Watako?
At the end of the movie, when the men are warmly welcomed, Kazuko stands alone, watching silently, without even anyone noticing her presence.
In reality, Kazuko is known by the media as "Queen of Anatahan Island", "Woman with 32 Faces", "Queen Bee", "Bestiality and Slave", "Woman Who Seduces Men"...
The vast majority of reports are slandering and criticizing the son. As if as a woman, she could have the initiative to choose at that time.
If history is a little girl dressed up, then women in history are just tools to be trampled on at will.
Historically, Because of the great deal of attention she received, her portraits and portraits exploded, and Japan set off a "Anatahan fever.".
Later, Kazuko was mobilized to star in a play called "Anatahan Island".
Between 1952 and 1954, the play toured japan nationwide.
At the same time, "This is the Truth about Anantahan Island" starring Kazuko! The film was released, and Sternborough's "Ananthahan" was also filmed, and for a time, Kazuko became a prominent figure.
But being famous does not mean that this fame is a good thing, because it is almost all negative evaluations, and Kazuko is still the red face that deceives men and invites killing.
After that, Kazuko moved several times because of the discussion of others, worked as a stripper, opened a small shop selling takoyaki and smoothies, and died of a brain tumor at the age of 49.
Looking back at the anantahan island incident now, hunger, sexual desire, power, it is not a cruel human drama.