"Heaven's sins are still against you, but you can't live by your own sins." - Shang Shu Taijia
Some people always pretend to be calm and do nothing after doing bad things, but in fact, they are always condemned by their conscience, some of them choose to be silent and bury the wrong things they have done in their hearts, and some of them let their conscience be comforted by means of atonement. Many of the executioners who slaughtered civilians during the war narrowly escaped sanctions because of the chaos of the war. However, there are also those who take the initiative to apologize for their evil deeds because of the discovery of conscience.
Akaken Kashiwakura (1920-2007) was a Japanese soldier who participated in the invasion of China. After being drafted into the army in January 1940, Chijian Kashiwakura was incorporated into the cavalry company of the 20th Division of the Army, and after receiving short training, he went to the area around Xi'anyi, Shanxi, China. There, he committed an unforgivable crime. After Japan's defeat, he became a prisoner of war and returned to Japan in 1956.
In the last days of his life, Akaken Kashirakura once said: It was the criminal war of aggression that made me lose my humanity, lose my personality, lose my dignity, and become a murderous devil... In the "Record of Repentance" written by him, the criminal facts of the Japanese militarism launching a war of aggression were made public to the world.
In Chijian Baicang's "Repentance Record", scene after scene, pile after pile of tragic and heinous killing of innocent Chinese people makes people feel cold, trembling, disgusting, and angry! Chijian Baicang said that he had raped 33 Chinese women, killed 8 women, and maimed 3 women, and I still can't forget or disperse the way they died.
In fact, Chijian Kashiwakura was just a soldier in the Japanese army invading China, and he alone committed such a serious crime, so the serious crimes committed by the nearly 2 million Japanese army invading China can be described as indescribable.
For example, in this confession, Chijian Baicang wrote about his experience of sweeping: once I went into the village to sweep, I went into a farmhouse, and saw a woman with a towel lying on the kang, and a pink baby who had just been born was sleeping next to her... The woman screamed loudly and trembled with fear. The old lady of her house came to beat me like crazy, and I turned around and shot her. When I was done, I set fire to the house, and the women, children, and old ladies were buried in it.
After returning to Japan, Akaken Kashiwakura, at first, he did not dare to mention to others that he had participated in the war, and he desperately wanted to delete this memory from his mind. As he grew older, not only did he not completely forget his past experience, but the shadow of war had always hung over his heart, and his children and grandchildren had all died unexpectedly in a car accident.
Akaken Kashirakura's wife said: "My husband has been living in the dark night of the spirit since he returned to Japan. He has severe insomnia, uses drugs to help him sleep at night, and even if he falls asleep, he often has nightmares, always dreaming of the Chinese who were killed by him, and seeking revenge on him. Whether he is awake or asleep, he can't get rid of the sense of guilt, his mood is restless... Before he died, he cried out to me in tears that he must send his ashes to The Chinese House for burial, and that he would atone for his sins by torturing his soul. ”
In the summer of 2007, Chiken Kashiwakura's wife came to China to bury her husband's ashes. Although chiken Kashikura was deeply sinful, at least before his death, he was able to wake up, take the initiative to bear the responsibility for his sins, and bravely apologize to Chinese, from this point of view, he was at least better than those unrepentant invaders.
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