In World War II, Japan launched a war of aggression against China, and many Japanese people, driven by militarist ideas, joined the eight-year-long war of aggression.
Among these Japanese invaders who invaded China and brought great disasters and endless pain to China, there was a Japanese soldier named Hiroshi Yamazaki, who did not want to be an executioner with his hands covered in blood, chose to flee his troops away from the battlefield and no longer participate in this war of aggression.
Yamazaki Hiroshi, who left the Japanese army, became a deserter, and Yamazaki Hiroshi, who was in China, had no way to leave China and flee back to Japan, and even if Yamazaki Hiroshi could not return to Japan, because Yamazaki Hiroshi knew very well in his heart that after he returned to Japan as a deserter, what awaited him would be a trial and sanction by a military tribunal.
Since Yamazaki did not want to participate in the war of aggression, why did he join the invaders in invading China with the Japanese army?
Born into a family of doctors
Born into a Japanese family that has been practicing medicine for generations, Yamazaki learned medicine from his father and hoped to one day become a doctor who can save the world and save lives.
In the 1930s, Japan's militarist ideology had entered a white-hot stage, and the fanaticism of war controlled all the people in Japan, who shouted about the joint construction of the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and actively joined the unjust war of aggression against China.
In 1937, Yamazaki received a conscription order from the Japanese Emperor, who asked Yamazaki to go to China to participate in the peaceful construction of the two countries. When Yamazaki arrived in China and saw the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army in China, Yamazaki realized that he had been deceived by the Japanese emperor.
Participation in the peace-building between the two countries is only a hoax set up by the Japanese authorities, and it is a complete war of aggression against foreign countries. This deception transforms Yamazaki's identity dramatically, and Yamazaki transforms himself from a life-saving doctor into a killing tool in the hands of the invaders.
Hiroshi Yamazaki could not accept becoming an executioner, and in order not to become a tool for killing in the hands of others, Yamazaki Hiroshi, who did not want to kill people and did not want to be killed by others, chose to be a deserter. After Yamazaki escaped from the army, he disguised himself in order not to be captured by the Japanese army.
Become a refugee
Hiroshi Yamazaki disguises himself as a Chinese refugee, and Hiroshi Yamazaki, who does not speak Chinese or listen to Chinese, pretends to be a deaf and mute person and communicates with the people around him by hand comparison in order not to be discovered.
In this way, Yamazaki Hiroshi fled to Shandong, where he lived in seclusion to marry and have children, and no one recognized Yamazaki's true identity.
It was not until 35 years later, when China and Japan re-established diplomatic relations, that Yamazaki Hiroshi dared to tell his wife his true identity, and Yamazaki's wife learned that her husband, who had been married for 35 years, was a Japanese soldier living in seclusion in China.
The Battle of Injustice
In 1931, the Japanese army launched the "September 18 Incident" in the northeast to start the war of aggression against China, occupying three northeastern provinces of China, and in 1937, the Japanese army planned the July 7 Incident (Lugou Bridge Incident) and began to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China.
The Japanese imperialist aggressors killed Chinese people in China, frantically plundered China's resources and property, and implemented the three-light policy of "killing, burning, and robbing the light" in the occupied areas; the lives were ruined; the butcher's knife was aimed at, and the corpses and bones were turned into mountains, which brought great disasters to China, and in order to resist the Japanese aggressors, the Chinese people paid heavy sacrifices and prices.
At the beginning of the war, Japanese soldiers continued to pour into China, Yamazaki Hiroshi was one of them, before the war began, Yamazaki Hiroshi's identity was a famous doctor in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, Yamazaki Hiroshi said that his lifelong desire was to be able to hang the pot and become a doctor who saved the lives of others.
Born in 1908, Hiroshi Yamazaki was not yet 30 years old, and as a young man, he had no idea that he was about to be sent to the battlefield and turned into a butcher who burned and plundered.
In 1937, Japan prepared to launch a war of aggression against China, and Japan recruited troops throughout the country, and Yamazaki Hiroshi was conscripted.
In order to pretend to be a benevolent and righteous teacher, the Japanese authorities disguised the Japanese army as a righteous party in the war, deceived the Japanese people, and claimed that the Japanese army came to China to participate in peace construction and liberate the Chinese from Western hegemony.
Yamazaki Hiroshi, who thought he was the righteous party, came to China, and when he stepped on Chinese soil, Yamazaki was frightened by the sight in front of him, and he saw many innocent people whose families were destroyed and displaced by the war, and the corpses were everywhere.
I realized that it was because of the arrival of my own national army that the land of China would suffer such a big disaster. Yamazaki's heart could no longer be calm, it turned out that he had been deceived, it turned out that he was an intruder. Thinking that he is a doctor, saving lives and helping the injured is his job, but now he has become a killing tool, Yamazaki Hiroshi is very painful in his heart.
Thoughts were struggling, until one day in August 1937, Yamazaki's unit was stubbornly blocked when attacking Tianjin, and the fierce war made the soldiers on both sides of the war fall one by one, seeing the soldiers who could no longer get up in the pool of blood, the collapsed Yamazaki Hiroshi dropped his gun, turned around and desperately fled, escaping from this nightmarish battlefield and never looking back.
At this time, the border crossing had been closed, and Yamazaki, who had no hope of returning home, disguised himself as a Chinese refugee and evaded the Japanese army. Disguised as a Chinese refugee, Hiroshi Yamazaki joined the fleeing Chinese refugees, and Yamazaki fled south with the fleeing Chinese refugees.
Hiroshi Yamazaki could not speak Chinese when he fled, but could only pretend to be deaf and mute, relying on hand analogy to communicate with people, and received help from many Chinese during the escape.
Hiroshi Yamazaki fled south/to Shandong, met Japanese expatriates, and found a job and a place to stay. Here, Yamazaki studied Chinese while working, and was later expelled for stealing things to help refugees while working as a reservoir manager.
Hiroshi Yamazaki, who lost his job, became a refugee again, and he concocted a new identity for himself, using this new identity to live in China, and Yamazaki began to integrate into the life of a Chinese refugee.
New life
Later, Yamazaki Hiroshi also met a girl who fled to Shandong, and after a period of time together, the two had a good feeling for each other, and then they got married. After getting married, Yamazaki gave up the idea of returning to Japan and lived in China with his wife, but for 35 years, Yamazaki was afraid to tell his wife his true identity.
Having been helped by Chinese and participating in wars of aggression that brought endless suffering to the Chinese, Yamazaki Hiroshi wanted to repay Chinese and atone for his sins, Yamazaki opened a small clinic in Shandong, using his medical skills to repay Chinese and atone for his sins.
35 years later, when China and Japan established diplomatic relations, his wife learned that Hiroshi Yamazaki was originally Japanese.
Yamazaki also applied to donate his body because he was a Japanese who had been blocked from donating his body, and his application was approved again, and later Yamazaki's body was donated to Shandong Medical College a hundred years later.
brief summary:
There will always be people who go to war for their own selfish desires, and there will always be people who will stop war in order to protect peace. For the rest of his life, Yamazaki has spent his own way atone for the mistakes he had made before.
Hiroshi Yamazaki once said: "Fighting a war in someone else's country is definitely guilty, the emperor has made a mistake, and those who participate in the war are also guilty, they are all sinners." ”
Faced with the mistakes of the past, Yamazaki Hiroshi did not excuse himself from the crime, but faced the problem head-on and admitted the mistake. Although Hiroshi Yamazaki did not start the war, Hiroshi Yamazaki participated in the war.
War can make people lose their minds, but Yamazaki Hiroshi, under the influence of Japan's fanatical militarist ideas, still maintains his sanity and chooses to be a kind person, although Yamazaki Hiroshi did not stop the war, he chose to flee the war and not participate in this unjust war.
Disgusted by war, he finally spent his life making up for the mistakes he had made. In 2010, at the age of 103, Hiroshi Yamazaki completed his life and passed away peacefully.