In the years when the Japanese army invaded China, they committed countless crimes. Countless compatriots died tragically, and countless otherwise happy families were torn apart. The evil deeds done by the Japanese army on the land of China represent blood and darkness in Chinese history, and after their declaration of defeat in the war of aggression against China, all kinds of acts of denial or prevarication have made us extremely angry.
The Buddha said, "Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil; it is not that the hour has not yet come." "Some of the Japanese who have committed atrocities on Chinese soil believe in Buddhism and naturally know this sentence. Therefore, after returning home after defeat, some of them still did not take the previous evil deeds seriously, and some of them realized their mistakes and wanted to ask for Chinese forgiveness and make their conscience more comfortable! But can we really forgive these murderous demons on behalf of the martyrs?
Today, we want to talk about a veteran of the invasion of China who did countless cruel things in China, but regretted it in his old age and begged someone to scatter his ashes in a livestock market in Shanxi, China, and let the livestock trample on his ashes--Chijian Baicang!
Pictured| veterans of the Japanese invasion of China knelt down to repent
First, the family was poor at an early age, and they were brainwashed into the army
Akaken Shirakura was born in 1920 in Kawasaki, Japan. Before he was born, his parents had a son named Akaken Murano. When they were young, their mother died of illness. Originally, the mother was not a serious illness, but because the family was poor and had no money to buy medicine, the illness on her body became more and more serious, and in the end, the mother of Chijian Kashiwacang could only die.
Akaken Kashirakura's father was a somewhat skilled worker in the Japanese Postal Ministry. Because of the poverty of the family, the father did not have the money to marry another wife, so he had to raise two brothers alone to grow up, and his life was very difficult. However, his father believed that reading could change his fate and let his children be knighted later, so he saved money and tried his best to send both of his children to the local school.
Father thought that even if in the end they could not change their fate, nor could they be promoted to the rank of knight, but entering the academy would allow them to gain more insight and increase some knowledge, at least not to become illiterate people who could not read a big word. A little knowledge can also find a good job in the future, and it is not difficult to live an ordinary life with meals to eat.
The father's idea was excellent, but his wish was ultimately disappointed. In July 1937, Japan concocted a reason to launch a war of aggression against China. In fact, they had hoped to pocket China in a few months, but they did not expect that China's territory was very vast, and the number of soldiers originally prepared was simply not enough.
Therefore, the Japanese government decided to recruit a large number of soldiers in the country, regardless of whether they had combat experience or not, as long as they were old, the men in the family were to be taken to join the army. If there is a man in the family who does not join the army, the government will punish the family, so the Chiken family must also let the two children go to war, although they are unwilling in their hearts, but because they cannot resist, they can only do as the government says.
Pictured| Japanese army
After being taken away from home, Akaken Murano and Akaken Kashiwakura had two choices, one was to go to the pioneer regiment to open up the wilderness, and the other was to become a soldier, and it was stipulated that one person had to choose one. At that time, the brothers did not know the difference between the two choices, nor did they know what they represented, so they thought that if one person chose one, one of them would always be able to return to Japan alive and start a normal life.
From the name, the pioneer group seemed to be safer, so Akaken Kashiwakura asked Akaken Murano to choose the pioneer group, and he chose to become a soldier. His brother was the eldest son in the family and had excellent academic performance, so he wanted his brother to survive.
After making a choice, the two brothers were divided into different teams. Chijian Murano was assigned to the team that went to Yilan County, Manchuria, China, to open up the wilderness, while Chijian Baicang, after a short period of training, was assigned to the cavalry wing of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, and then followed the Japanese troops to Shanxi Xi'anyi, which is now Xia County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province.
To say that it is a short training is actually to continuously instill in those Japanese residents who joined the army the ideas of "the emperor is supreme" and "the Japanese are a higher species, Chinese are a lower species", and then teach them some methods of killing humans, and train them into a killing machine that works for Japanese militarism.
Second, the evil deeds of the Japanese army invading China
In Chiken Kashiwakura's "Confessions of Guilt," he recorded his crimes committed in China with heinous cruelty that made one wonder, "Is there really such a demon in the world?" Looking at those words, a scene of tragic scenes appeared in front of our eyes, and it seemed that the screams of our ancestors and the sly laughter of the Japanese army were also heard in our ears.
After coming to China, the Japanese army such as Chiken Kashiwakura began their atrocities. At that time, they still had a trace of human conscience, and when they mutilated the Chinese residents, they knew that it was wrong to do so, so they often let people go, or when they carried out killings, their hands were shaking and stabbing.
But when the Japanese generals discovered this phenomenon, they came up with a way to have innocent Chinese residents tied back, men, women and children. After being tied back, he asked his subordinates to tie these unarmed people to trees, and let the soldiers who could not Chinese be stabbed with sharp knives on their guns and stabbed directly at the group of people tied to the trees.
As the sharp knife pierced into the flesh, the villagers let out a scream of pain. Those soldiers who originally had a trace of conscience gradually became the demons of Lezhong's killing. The Japanese general saw the situation and directly issued an order: the more Chinese killed, the more rewards they will receive, and the faster their promotion will be.
This order made the Already murderous japanese army even more crazy. As soon as they entered the village, they began to do evil everywhere. Burn down the houses of Chinese villagers, kill Chinese villagers at will, and rob the village of food or livestock and other materials.
According to Chiken Kashiwakura, when he entered a farmhouse, he saw a woman lying on a kang with a towel wrapped around her head, as if she had just given birth, and there was a small baby next to her. He directly pulled up the woman lying on the kang, and the woman immediately screamed.
Later, an old woman came in from outside, probably the woman's mother-in-law, and she picked up the stick next to her and hit him. In a fit of rage, he directly solved the woman, locked the woman and the baby in the house, and set fire to the house.
The evil deeds done by the invading Japanese army to the chinese natives are far more than that. Once, Japanese soldiers came to the village of Shangdan, which was originally a small village of peace and tranquility, but the arrival of the Japanese army made the village step into hell in an instant.
A Japanese soldier walked into a house in the village and dragged out a woman who wanted to commit violence, but the woman swore to die, which greatly angered the Japanese soldier. He threw the woman directly into the well in the courtyard, and then threw her children, who were only a few years old, into the well, and finally threw two bombs into the well.
In this way, the original two living lives were buried in the hands of the Japanese army. The most infuriating thing was that the Japanese soldier who was inferior to the pig and dog not only did not have a hint of apology, but cursed the woman for not knowing the good villain.
In Akaken Kashiwakura's "Record of Repentance", there is also an incident that makes us feel extremely sad. One day, the Japanese army captured a female Eighth Route, and they first tortured the female Eighth Route, trying to obtain confidential information of the Eighth Route Army from her mouth, but the soldiers of our army were unyielding and unyielding, and they did not say a word, not half a word.
Later, the Japanese officer handed the female eighth road to the soldiers and said that they would do whatever they wanted. At this moment, a cruel thought came to the mind of the soldier. They tied the female eight to a tree, and the two competed to shoot. After a while, he shot the female eighth road's body full of holes. After that, he committed a very criminal act, and the cruelty of his methods made us cold.
Picture | female Eighth Route Army
Chijian Baicang has committed numerous evil deeds in China, killing 33 women of good families, brutally killing 8 of them, and even 3 women being maimed by him. A Japanese soldier still committed many evil deeds, and there were so many Japanese troops invading China, so how many of our compatriots died tragically at their hands!
3. The Japanese army was defeated and released and returned to China
Finally, the War of Resistance Against Japan was victorious and Japan surrendered unconditionally. On the day of the surrender of the Japanese army, we Chinese people breathed a deep breath, our families, partners, or people who had been with each other day and night, I don't know if you can see that those demonic sinners surrendered, we finally won the victory, and you can rest assured under the Nine Springs.
The Chinese present at that time all had tears in their eyes and wanted to rush up to avenge their compatriots, but no, wouldn't this be no different from the brutal acts of the Japanese army? So they held their heads high and stared at the Japanese leaders one by one to bow and apologize in front of them. Presumably, a huge wave has already been set off in their hearts, and the sadness of those dead compatriots, the grief and indignation of the enemy in front of them, and the pride of the country have all turned into tears and flowed from their faces.
Those who survived the Japanese invasion of China were imprisoned in the war criminals management center, while Chijian Baicang was imprisoned in the Taiyuan War Criminals Management Center for ideological reform. Here, Akatsuki Kashirakura gradually realized how wrong, bloody, and absurd what he had done was, and he regretted it.
In 1956, Akaken Kashiwakura returned to his hometown as the second group of exonerated people. But at this moment, what greeted him? Is it his father's grave, and the news that his brother has died? It turned out that shortly after he left for China, his father died, and even the corpse was handled by neighbors.
Pictured| Japanese pioneer regiment
The brother was fine during the battle, but when the Japanese army was defeated, a large number of Japanese troops returned to Japan, and the pioneer regiments, including Akaken Murano, were abandoned in China. Finally, while fleeing, his brother died for various reasons, and his body was placed in a specially built "Japanese cemetery" by the Chinese government.
Hearing this news, Akaken Kashiwakura's tears welled up in his eyes, and he thought of the Chinese who had been brutally killed by him and his companions, and when faced with Japanese war criminals like his brother, the Chinese government had buried them properly.
Back in Japan, Akaken Kashiwakura became a loner, with no relatives or friends, and his house had long since been abandoned. Later, under the arrangement of the Japanese government, he had a position, and Akaken Kashiwakura finally settled down in Japan.
After returning to China, Chiken Kashiwakura joined the anti-war organization of the "China Returnees Liaison Association". Even though he joined the organization, in his heart, he did not dare to face the evil things he had done, and he had always deliberately forgotten these things. But history is recorded, and the brain will remember the things that made his blood pressure rise sharply, and he can't forget it!
Fourth, evil has evil retribution, and future generations have no survival
At the age of 42, he finally lived an ordinary life. Although his family was poor, even poorer than when he was a child, he had both a wife and children and grandchildren, and the family was happy. But the reality is fair and cruel.
One day in 2007, Akaken Kashiwakura's son, daughter-in-law, and grandson all died in a car accident while traveling. Heartbroken to learn of this bad news, he still had a wife to take care of, so he could only send the black-haired man to bury his poor son and daughter-in-law and grandson together.
At this time, Akaken Kashiwakura felt that the child's death was an accident, after all, car accidents were inevitable. But after a while, he suddenly felt that he could not eat, and often nausea and vomiting. He quickly went to the hospital for examination, and the results of the examination made him feel that the sky had collapsed, he had liver cancer, which had reached an advanced stage, and the doctor was powerless.
Pictured| Japanese atrocities
Those evil things that he had deliberately forgotten, after being diagnosed with liver cancer, all rushed out of the corners of his memory. Chiken Kashiwakura seemed to have returned to the land of gun smoke, the sound of sharp knives piercing into the skin, the sound of bullets penetrating the body, and the screams and curses of Chinese haunted the ears.
Frightened, Chi Jian Baicang quickly took a tissue to plug his ears, but he could still hear the sounds, which were about to torture him crazy. Not only that, he could not sleep peacefully at night, and whenever he slept, he would have nightmares about the Chinese who had been killed by him, and their deaths were extremely terrible, and they cried out for their own lives. Whenever he woke up from his dream, he was sweating profusely and his eyes were full of panic.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered a woman who had been hurt by him, and the woman's appearance he had forgotten, only remembered her voice, which was the voice that cursed him, and he could not understand what he was saying, but he knew that it was the woman who was cursing him. Suddenly, it was as if he had seen the woman, who was standing in front of her in front of her in blood and asking him to die.
Sin and fear accompanied him until he died, a time of great misery in his opinion. He thinks every day what he should do? Finally, he thought of a way to alleviate the guilt in his heart, and that was to repent.
5. For the sake of peace of mind, sprinkle ashes
He quickly wrote down the evil things he had done in China, and Chiken Kashiwakura's thoughts at that time were very confused, basically thinking of where to write, but in this way, the content he wrote down was enough for us to glimpse the tip of the iceberg of the tragic situation of the Japanese invasion of China at that time. Later, he compiled what he had written into a "Record of Repentance".
Pictured| Invading Japanese Army
After writing the "Confession record", he did not know who to give this to, and it would certainly be useless to give it to the Japanese newspaper, and it could not be sent out. Suddenly, he thought of Cai Xingtian, who had gone to Japan to ask him about the crimes he had committed before, when Akaken Kashiwakura refused his visit. Now Cai Xingtian had become his life-saving straw, so he quickly wrote a letter to Cai Xingtian.
The letter said he had written the letter from his hospital bed and was likely to die soon. Some time ago, guilt has been pestering him, he wrote the "Record of Repentance", and now he hopes that Cai Xingtian will publish the "Record of Repentance" or tell everyone about his evil deeds, and he wants to apologize to all the Chinese. He said to his wife, "I'm sorry for China, I want to atone for my sins." ”
In the letter, he also said that he was a Buddhist believer who wanted to purify his soul, and that if he left with a sense of guilt, his soul would not be sublimated, and he would not be reborn, so he wanted to atone for what he had done. He wanted to ask Cai Xingtian to help take his wife to China, so that his wife, Kawaka Mikiko, could fulfill his last wish.
His last wish was to scatter his ashes in China. Half of it was sprinkled in Shanxi'e, where he had committed countless evil deeds, hoping to scatter this half of the ashes in the livestock market of An'yi, so that those livestock would trample on his ashes and atone for the crimes he had committed. The other half of the ashes he hoped to be scattered in front of the tomb of his brother Chiken Murano, who wanted to accompany his brother.
At the end of the letter, Akaken Kashirakura says that he will become that cruel look, which is closely related to war, and it is war that turns him into a machine that only knows how to kill, and it is war that makes him lose his personality and conscience. He didn't want China and Japan to start another war, he said the war was so evil that it couldn't go on!
When Cai Xingtian received the letter, he quickly set off for Japan, but by this time Akaken Kashiwakura was already dead. When Mikiko Kawaka saw Cai Xingtian, she said, "Are you Mr. Cai Xingtian from China?" Cai Xingtian said, "Yes, are you Mrs. Kawaka Mikiko?" "Kawaka Mikiko should be."
Later, during the exchange, Cai Xingtian asked: "Madam, Chijian Baicang once wrote me a letter saying that he wanted to scatter his ashes between China and China, I don't know if you know about this?" ”
Kawaka replied, "I know about this, before he died, he couldn't sleep well every day, often screamed and woke up from nightmares, and he often said that he dreamed that people who had been mutilated by him came to him to pay for his life, which made him end up suffering from insomnia, even with drugs." Before he died, he begged me bitterly, hoping that I would send his ashes to China, saying that he wanted to atone for his sins. ”
After listening to Kawaka Mikiko's answer, Cai Xingtian frowned and was silent for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking, and then his tight frown finally loosened, saying: "You know this matter, I am willing to take you to China, I don't know when you have time, we will go together to complete the will of Chiken Kashiwakura." ”
Kawaka Mikiko was relieved to hear Cai Xingtian's answer and immediately thanked Cai Xingtian. A few days later, Cai Xingtian and Kawaka Mikiko came to China with the ashes of Akaken Kashiwakura. First of all, they came to the livestock market in Shanxi'anyi, where there was a lot of traffic, and directly scattering the ashes was bound to attract attention, so they were waiting for the opportunity.
Finally, the time has come. It was raining heavily, and there were few pedestrians on the road, so Cai Xingtian and Kawaka Mikiko took advantage of the lack of people at night to scatter half of the ashes of Akaken Kashiwakura in the mud. The rain slapped the ashes of Chijian Cypress into the mud, which would be trampled by livestock as he wished, and atone for the evil deeds he had committed on the land of China. The other half of the ashes were also scattered in front of his brother's grave according to Chiken Kashiwakura's last wishes, so that he would accompany his brother forever.
After this incident, Cai Xingtian compiled the letter written to him by Akaken Kashirakura and the "Confessions" and published an article in 2010 titled "The Aftermath of a Japanese Veteran". After the article was published, some of Japan's former invading soldiers also saw it, some of them still did not think so, and some of them began to repent for what they had done!
Whether Akaken Kashirakura really regretted what he had done or whether he wanted to make himself feel better before writing the "Record of Repentance", we don't know. All we know is that the Japanese did indeed commit many unforgivable things against us. Even if they repent and apologize, I don't think we are qualified to express our thoughts, let alone forgive them, and the real qualifications are those compatriots who have suffered!