In the Second World War, Japan launched an eight-year war of aggression against our country, causing great harm to the Chinese people, and its heinous and heinous acts cannot be forgiven by the chinese people until now.
In 1945, the Japanese mainland was bombed by the United States by atomic bombs, and japan's front line in the war of aggression against China was too long and too long. At the end of the road, the Japanese chose unconditional surrender, and then all the Japanese soldiers in China surrendered unconditionally, And Japan surrendered, but China needed to send these prisoners of war back to Japan, which became a thorny problem.
Although Japan did nothing wrong in the eight-year war of aggression against China, there have been countless tragic acts. However, as a peace-loving country, China has always had the traditional virtue of preferential treatment of prisoners, and the Japanese prisoners who surrendered unconditionally and all of them had laid down their arms and were unarmed were no exception.
After reaching an agreement on the return of prisoners of war, the first thing my country did was to count the number of prisoners of war. There were three categories of Japanese who needed to be repatriated, first Japanese prisoners of war, then Japanese overseas Chinese, and finally others who were not Japanese but helped the Japanese army.
According to statistics, about 1.28 million Japanese troops surrendered at that time, plus nearly 2.15 million people of other nationalities. This does not include the surrender army in the northeast region, when the northeast region surrendered to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union statistics, the northeast region totaled more than 1.7 million people, 600,000 to the Soviet Union responsible for repatriation, the remaining 1.1 million people repatriated to China, these parts add up, the number of people that China needs to repatriate is more than 3.2 million people.
3.2 million people is not a small number, and the current population of Tibet is less than four million, which is equivalent to almost the population of a province. The way to repatriate these people to Japan was by steamship, and the largest ship at that time carried about 10,000 people, which meant that the vast majority of people had to board the ship, which would be a long process.
At that time, Japan was bombed by the United States, and some cities in mainland Japan were devastated and needed to be rebuilt after the disaster. Moreover, the nuclear radiation problem caused by it has led to the inability of some areas to live.
Post-disaster reconstruction takes a lot of time, and the problem of nuclear radiation has also reduced the habitable area, which has also affected the repatriation of Japanese prisoners of war, making the time even longer. These people are stranded in China, and daily eating, drinking and living in Lhasa has become a big problem.
We are a prisoner of war who gives preferential treatment to prisoners of war, and we give the most basic subsistence guarantees to those who cannot return to china temporarily. Managing the livelihoods of 3 million people is no small matter, and the repatriation of so many prisoners of war is a major event of great concern to the international community.
Although this is a huge project that costs people, efforts and money, and china has experienced eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, its own conditions are not sufficient.
However, the Central Committee of our country attaches great importance to this matter, and in order to show the fine traditions of our country, it is first ordered that it is strictly forbidden to scold and insult prisoners of war, and to give preferential treatment to prisoners. Then, the captives in various regions were provided with three meals a day and the necessary daily necessities, and there were the same accommodation conditions as the Chinese people.
Japan has done so many things in China that have hurt nature and reason, and our country can still treat Japanese prisoners with a large number of such people and regardless of previous suspicions.
According to statistics, the daily consumption of the captives at that time was 100 yuan per day, which meant that each person's monthly consumption was about 3,000 yuan.
Three hundred yuan in 1944 was a huge amount for ordinary people, you know, the average monthly income of people going to work at that time was only about five hundred yuan.
Although at that time, our government said that the japanese government would find the Japanese government to settle the amount of consumption of Japanese prisoners after all the personnel returned to Japan, but later our country did not mention this matter to Japan, and it was regarded as charity.
With all the preparations completed, the Japanese prisoners of war began to board ships one after another to return home. However, for them to board the ship, China has a strict baggage search system requirements, strictly prohibit them from carrying these three things on board, once found, on the spot to seize the strictly prohibited items, and give the person a temporary stay back to china, and prosecute and detain.
The first item is contraband, including guns and ammunition, drugs, chemicals, swords and other sharp weapons, as well as combat items such as telescopes used by the Japanese in combat, as well as military dogs.
The Japanese have always been dishonest, and if they let them carry contraband on board, something might happen. If something goes wrong on the way to transport Japanese prisoners of war, such as a shipwreck or an incident in which prisoners of war are killed or injured, then Japan is expected to bite back and push China to the cusp of public opinion. In order to avoid such things, the first thing is to prohibit the carrying of such prohibited items.
The second is to prohibit the carrying of valuables, or things of economic value. This category refers to a wide range of things, such as gold and silver, jewelry and diamonds.
These things are fundamentally Chinese things, and the Japanese have taken these things for themselves through illegal resale or forced buying and selling, and they have become their own things as soon as they pass. Then this is definitely not OK, whoever is it is, Japan does not want to take away a single cent of China.
The third is the value of Chinese cultural civilization and the value of historical research. These things refer to calligraphy and paintings, books, antiquities, and documents and reports involving China's current secrets.
The antiquities, calligraphy and paintings left by the old ancestors are left to us, it represents the five-thousand-year history of our country, symbolizing our country's long-standing cultural heritage, which certainly cannot fall into the hands of the Japanese.
As for the internal secrets about China collected by the Japanese during the period of their invasion of China, they certainly cannot be carried out of China, which is related to the lifeblood of our country.
Eventually, it took nearly a year for the more than 3.2 million Japanese captives to be repatriated to Japan.
It has to be said that when the Japanese prisoners were repatriated to China, our country also specially issued a directive that all Japanese repatriated personnel could receive three things before boarding the ship, one was grain, which could be replenished in a short time.
One is living funds, and when you return home, you can buy some basic daily necessities. One is new clothes that can be returned to the country with dignity. I have to admire the arrogance of our country, and China's magnanimity has been admired by all countries in the world.
Now, it is 2021, and China has become a superpower in the world, and its international status can be said to be among the best.
Our country can develop to a brilliant day precisely because it is a peace-loving country and a country of healthy competition with all countries. Moreover, China is also a country with great dignity and a large pattern, and has its own principles and fine traditions.