After a Japanese soldier was rewarded with a heavy reward and committed suicide with a gun, why did the Eighth Route Army want to recover his body?
In 2014, China announced the names of the first batch of anti-Japanese heroes, a total of 300 people, including a name that is different from Chinese - Hideo Miyagawa. That's right! He was a Japanese, after the 918 Incident in 1931, he was conscripted by the Japanese army and came to the battlefield of the invasion of China, and he was a soldier of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army.
In July 1941, the Eighth Route Army captured Hideo Miyagawa while fighting the Japanese at Shuangniu Mountain in Changqing County. After entering the Japanese army, Miyagawa Hideo was also seriously affected by militarist ideas, and his whole heart was to "be loyal to the emperor" and "be loyal to the country". After becoming a prisoner of the Eighth Route Army, he, like all Japanese soldiers, had to seek death or go on hunger strike every day to show his determination. However, after the Eighth Route Army took good care of him and did a lot of ideological work, Miyagawa Hideo began to change his mind and understand this unjust war of aggression.
Miyagawa Hideo's upbringing played a big role, he came from an ordinary peasant family, when he was a child, he was often bullied by landlords and nobles, and after entering the army, he was repeatedly beaten and scolded by his superiors. The atmosphere and discipline of the Eighth Route Army are fundamentally different from those of the Japanese army, where officers and men are equal, do not scold, and take the initiative to help the common people carry water and split materials to do farm work. Under the influence of the Eighth Route Army, Miyagawa Hideo's sense of justice was also stimulated, and he took the initiative to become an Eighth Route Army, imparting the advanced theoretical knowledge learned in the Japanese army to the Eighth Route Army, and personally teaching the Eighth Route Army to carry out machine gun shooting.
Hideo Miyagawa proved with his actions that he was an excellent soldier of the Eighth Route Army. The superiors also took into account national feelings and did not arrange for Hideo Miyagawa to fight the Japanese army, but let him do anti-war work in the rear. Every day, Hideo Miyagawa made anti-war leaflets in Japanese and distributed them in places where the Japanese army often appeared. He was an ordinary farmer, and he was also a Japanese soldier, he knew their inner thoughts very well, and the anti-zhang leaflets he made were very targeted, and the Japanese soldiers wanted to pick them up and see.
Hideo Miyagawa's work was useful, no less powerful than that of a gun, and many Japanese soldiers secretly fled the troops after reading the anti-war leaflets. The Japanese high-ranking officers were very worried after being angry, so they posted a notice with a heavy reward, in June 1945, there were still 2 months to be victorious in the War of Resistance, in the execution of the mission, the Japanese army surrounded Miyagawa Hideo, in order to cover the retreat of the Eighth Route Army companions, he resolutely did not take prisoners, with a pistol to commit suicide.
After Hideo Miyagawa died heroically, his body was taken away by the Japanese army. As soon as the news broke, the Eighth Route Army ordered local troops at all levels to snatch The body of Hideo Miyagawa from the Japanese army, no matter what the price. On a rainy night, the Eighth Route Army's armed engineering team snatched his body from the Japanese stronghold and buried him in the anti-Japanese base area. In 1980, Hideo Miyakawa's martyrs' tomb was moved to the Shilinshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery, and his ashes were returned to Japan in 2006 and included in the list of martyrs of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 2014.