During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and World War II in China, the female spy Yoshiko Kawashima was famous in Japan and notorious in China. So, who is this mischievous female spy? After China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, where did she go?
Yoshiko Kawashima, also known as Kawashima Dongzhen, Han name Jin Bihui, was originally the fourteenth daughter of prince Su of the Qing Dynasty.
In 1912, after the establishment of the Republic of China and the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Zenqi wanted to restore the country with the power of Japan, so he gave his daughter Xianxuan to Kawashima Nanasu as an adopted daughter. Since then, Yoshiko Kawashima has been renamed Yoshiko Kawashima and sent to Japan to receive militarist education.
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As an adult, Yoshiko Kawashima returned to China and worked as a spy for Japan for a long time. In 1927, Yoshiko Kawashima married Kangyur Zhabu, the son of the Mongol bandit Babuzabu, as a means of political aggression against Inner Mongolia. In 1928, Kawashima Yoshiko transferred to Shanghai, engaged in secret service activities, successively served as the puppet Manchukuo "Commander-in-Chief of the Anguo Army", "Commander-in-Chief of the North China People's Self-Defense Army" and other important positions in the secret service organs, and successively participated in secret military operations such as the Huanggutun Incident, the September 18 Incident, and the Manchurian Independence Movement, and personally directed the Shanghai 128 Incident and the transfer of Wanrong and other major conspiracies that shocked China and foreign countries, and was known as "men's female spy" and "Oriental female devil".
After Japan announced its surrender on August 15, 1945, Yoshiko Kawashima was first imprisoned in a warehouse at an army headquarters in Peiping. Two months later, she was transferred to a former Japanese army prison in Kita-Shinbashi. Soon after, she was transferred again and held in Cell No. 3 of the Women's Prison of Yaojiajing Hebei First Prison on the outskirts of Beiping. Subsequently, she was sentenced to death for adultery. On March 25, 1948, at 6:40 a.m., she was secretly shot at the age of 41 on the field in the southwest corner of The First Prison of Beiping.
However, there have been different theories about whether Yoshiko Kawashima was executed or not.
It is said that Yoshiko Kawashima wrote a suicide note to the warden and her adoptive father before the execution, and asked to wear a black jacket and white silk pants, but was not approved. Journalists from various newspapers were also informed that they could be interviewed before the execution, but in fact, all but one Associated Press reporter from the United States was blocked.
Afterwards, a female corpse was parked on Ziqiang Road, where the back door of the first prison was located, and it was not until 7:30 that the prison guide reporters to visit the female corpse. The corpse was head-to-south and feet-facing north, dressed in a gray prison coat, wearing a red sweater and blue sweater pants, and the bullet shot in from the back of the head and then from the bridge of the nose, at this time the hair was scattered, and the face was covered with blood, and it was impossible to distinguish its true face.
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Later, various questions were raised about the truth of Yoshiko Kawashima's execution.
One theory is that Yoshiko Kawashima made a female prisoner named Liu Fengling herself as a substitute for the death penalty at the cost of ten gold bars. In this regard, It is said that Liu Fengling's sister testified that their mother did sell Liu Fengling's life to Yoshiko Kawashima, and that when Liu Fengling's mother went to ask for gold bars after the shooting, she was severely beaten.
Nearly 60 years later, in 2006, Zhang Yu, a female painter who wrote the book "New Evidence of the Mystery of Kawashima Yoshiko's Life and Death", actually came out to break the news. According to Zhang Yu, one day in late 1948, Zhang Yu's grandfather Duan Lianxiang's family welcomed three mysterious guests, of which the middle-aged woman was Yoshiko Kawashima. Since then, Kawashima Yoshiko has lived on the outskirts of Changchun under the arrangement of Duan Lianxiang, who has declared to the outside world that she is a distant relative of his, Mrs. Fang. Zhang Yu has been referring to her as "Fang Yao" ever since.
Ryūsatsu Watanabe, a Japanese expert on Yoshiko Kawashima and a professor at the University of Tokyo, has also raised a series of questions about Yoshiko Kawashima's death. These doubts are roughly similar to our doubts, such as: Why is the execution scene so mysterious? Why go against the usual practice and kick journalists out of the scene? Why not clean up the dirt and blood stains on the faces of executed people? Why was it executed at the dim dawn?
According to Watanabe Ryusatsu, Yoshiko Kawashima's brother later revealed to him that Yoshiko Kawashima was not dead, had gone to Mongolia, and then went north to the Soviet Union. He was also told that Yoshiko Kawashima had moved to the United States.
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Regarding the death of Yoshiko Kawashima, there are many opinions, and the author is not easy to assert. However, the author can be sure that the phrase "Liu Fengling died for her" basically excludes its possibility. At that time, China was in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the situation was turbulent, if Kawashima Yoshiko really found someone to die, after success, she would definitely kill people and destroy her mouth, and how could she leave such a weak mother and daughter as insiders? You know, Yoshiko Kawashima is a big spy who is used to doing this.
In recent years, there have also been different accounts of Yoshiko Kawashima's life. Some say she is a folk girl in northeast China, while others say she is Japanese herself. As a result, the origin of Yoshiko Kawashima has also become a mystery. This female spy really did "come without a shadow, go without a trace", which can be said to be very "competent".