In recent years, there have been more and more documentaries and movies about comfort women in Japan's war of aggression against China, and the Japanese war of aggression against China has left us with Chinese wounds that will never be indelible.
For this reason, a Japanese military doctor who had never killed a Chinese during the war of aggression against China used 74 years of repentance and atonement. In the past 74 years, he gave up his original home in Japan and took root in Jinan, Shandong Province, China for nearly 74 years, treating countless local people, from a "ghost doctor" who was not optimistic at the beginning to a "good doctor in the world" in the eyes of the people. Before he died, at the age of 100, he had already had a vague memory and was deaf in both ears, but even so, his dry and chapped lips always chanted the following words: Japan has brought too many disasters to the Chinese people, and I will do my best to atone for my sins.
flee
His name is Hiroshi Yamazaki, a Japanese man born in 1908 in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, and he has an older brother who is very kind to him and has a family of medical roots (three generations of medical studies). Hiroshi Yamazaki grew up in this atmosphere of saving the world, which made him simple and kind in nature. He even planned his future, to be a benevolent doctor like his ancestors, to treat diseases and save people, and then to live a peaceful and happy life. However, the Japanese militarist right-wingers have broken this beautiful tranquility.
In 1937, in order to plan a full-scale war of aggression against China, the Japanese government extensively recruited soldiers on its own soil to replenish its military resources, and also beautified the war, the so-called "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", which they interpreted as "peaceful development and common prosperity" with other Asian countries. Because of the shortage of Japanese soldiers at that time, Japan ordered the conscription of soldiers, and the Yamazaki family, who had two sons, had to have one to join the army according to the regulations. The older brother usually cares for Yamazaki Hiroshi, and yamazaki Hiroshi was still the money his brother helped raise when he went to medical school, and the most important thing is that his brother is married. Kind, he did not want his brother to leave his wife Laoyuan to run, so he volunteered to put on the evil Japanese military uniform for his brother, and at that time he really thought that he was going to help other countries to become rich together.
When he stepped on Chinese soil, the mask of Japanese militarism was torn apart, and Yamazaki saw not at all the peaceful mutual help as the Japanese government described, but a hell on earth, full of gunfire and corpses. This made him unable to accept it as a military doctor, but forced by military regulations, he traveled with the invading Chinese army like a walking dead. Until he saw his comrades snatch the newborn baby from the arms of the Chinese women full of resentment and despair, and then he laughed and threw himself cruelly to the ground. Hiroshi Yamazaki couldn't stand it any longer, believing that the unit was no longer worthy of being called a human being, and that he would rather risk being executed than escape from this nightmarish place.
rebirth
Yamazaki Hiroshi chose a dark and windy night to escape, and in his memory, he could go all the way east to the Shandong Peninsula, the closest to Japan, where he could find an opportunity to take a boat home. In this way, Hiroshi Yamazaki ended his six-month nightmare journey. On the way to the east, Yamazaki had seen many Chinese who had suffered, which made his heart full of guilt, and the idea of atonement for sin appeared in his heart for the first time.
Soon, Yamazaki's dry food was finished, and at first he did not think of begging for money from the Chinese he had indirectly persecuted, but wanted to flee east like this, even if he starved to death, he would be punished, until there were constantly kind and enthusiastic Chinese to see that he was pitiful, give him food and help him. Hiroshi Yamazaki is touched by the kind and simple Chinese people, which reminds him of his home in Fukuoka, Japan. Thinking of his beloved brother, it was the first time he felt the warmth of home in a foreign land. This made him have the idea of living strongly in his heart, he wanted to atone for the sins of these lovely Chinese, he had good medical skills, and since he had indirectly participated in the killing of Chinese people, he was determined to save Chinese people in the future - with his medical skills. So he stopped fleeing eastward, and he gave up fleeing to his home in Fukuoka, because he had another home in his heart, and he had just arrived in Jinan.
To open a clinic, you have to make money first, and a Japanese man in Jinan helped Yamazaki Hiroshi find a warehouse job, and soon after, Yamazaki left the warehouse and opened his own clinic with his savings. To his bewilderment, however, no one came. The reason is that some people say that he is Japanese, that he does not open a clinic to save people, but to harm people, and calls him "ghost doctor". This reminded Yamazaki of the previous nightmarish military journey, yamazaki thought bitterly for a few days, and finally decided to take the initiative. He heard that the daughter of a nearby family had a high fever, Yamazaki Hiroshi hurried to that house with a medicine box, at first, the fever girl's family did not want him to treat the disease, but looking at the daughter's painful appearance, the mother after a struggle of thoughts, and finally for the sake of the child, she still let Yamazaki Hiroshi prescribe medicine to treat the disease. Unexpectedly, the girl was much better that night, and the next day she was completely fine. The girl's mother thanked Hiroshi Yamazaki, and since then, Hiroshi Yamazaki's clinic has gradually gained popularity. Everyone was willing to accept him, and over time, Yamazaki Hiroshi and the people nearby became acquainted, and his Chinese was more proficient, or the authentic Jinan accent, and the average person really couldn't hear it. Everyone saw that Yamazaki Hiroshi was alone in human form, so they enthusiastically introduced him to a wife (a woman in exile from Tangshan, with a daughter). In this way, Yamazaki Hiroshi officially had his own home in China.
expiation
After the founding of New China, Yamazaki's clinic underwent socialist baptism, and Yamazaki became a doctor with "establishment". And Chairman Mao's phrase "serving the people" that he heard on the radio also became his life criterion as a doctor. If a poor family came to see him, he did not charge money, and even deducted it with his own salary. Yamazaki also takes a large portion of his salary every month to help the poor. Hiroshi Yamazaki rarely speaks, he likes to smile, and whenever a patient thanks him, he smiles and bows in thanks.
Hiroshi Yamazaki's name also began to shine in the city of Jinan. In 1972, Sino-Japanese relations eased and diplomatic relations were re-established. In 1976, Hiroshi Yamazaki returned to Fukuoka, Japan, to visit his relatives, but what he did not expect was that his family had long thought that he had died in the war, and there was still his spiritual seat in the family, which made Yamazaki Hiroshi cry and laugh. After that, his relatives wanted Yamazaki to stay in Japan, and they also found him a high-paying job with a monthly salary of 300,000 yen, which was equivalent to a monthly salary of nearly 20,000 yuan in the 1970s, when Yamazaki's salary in China was 83.6 yuan. Relatives thought that Yamazaki Hiroshi would definitely stay, but Yamazaki refused this very tempting job, bidding farewell to his relatives one by one, and then saying: "I want to go back to my home in China, where people give me water to drink and food to eat when I am in danger." ”
When Yamazaki left Japan, he did not forget to contribute to China's medical treatment, and he personally paid for an electrocardiogram that was scarce in China at that time, and donated it directly to the hospital in Jinan after returning to China. Yamazaki Hiroshi also used his special status to contribute to Sino-Japanese friendly exchanges, after 1976, Sino-Japanese exchanges began to become frequent, giving birth to many "Sino-Japanese friendship ambassadors", Yamazaki Hiroshi is also one of them, born in Japan, but his home is in China Yamazaki Hiroshi, for Jinan and Japan's Kasakayama City bridge, for this reason, he also wrote to Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Thanks to his efforts, the two cities finally concluded friendly relations in 1983. Yamazaki himself has become a well-known "city hero" because of this incident, and whenever the media interviews him, Yamazaki always speaks a thick Jinan Chinese saying that he wants to atone for his sins, he wants to do good deeds for the Chinese people, he wants to serve the people of the Chinese, and he wants to give his whole life to China.
The day after the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, before Jinan had time to organize donations, Yamazaki Hiroshi went to the local Red Cross Society to donate 3,000 yuan, and then he called her daughter to donate, saying that people in the disaster area were racing against time, and one more donation could save one more person! Hiroshi Yamazaki is busy working in the clinic during the day and reading medical books at night, rarely taking care of the family, and his daughter Yamazaki yun knows little about her father. Yamazaki learned that his father had participated in the war of aggression against China. According to Yamazaki Yun, because his father worked hard and served the people wholeheartedly, many neighbors at that time recognized him, so Yamazaki Hiroshi was given the opportunity to be promoted to a senior title, however, Yamazaki Hiroshi said that he gave this opportunity to others, he only wanted to atone for his sins in peace. Yes, atonement, these two heavy words and the tragic history of that year have always remained in Yamazaki's heart and cannot be erased, because Yamazaki Hiroshi has personally seen how brutal the sins committed by Japan in the war of aggression against China are. As long as Yamazaki lives on earth for one day, the atonement will never end.
Years gradually eroded the old man, Yamazaki Hiroshi's body gradually appeared various problems, premonition that he would not come much, Yamazaki Hiroshi resolutely went to the Shandong Provincial Red Cross Society, signed a pledge to donate the body. When he was alive, he treated chinese diseases and saved people, and when he died, he continued to contribute to China's medical treatment, and this Japanese soldier, who had not fired a bullet in the war of aggression against China, dedicated the rest of his life to China. In 2010, Hiroshi Yamazaki died at the age of 103.
In that painful memory, Yamazaki Hiroshi provided a warmth for the Chinese people, kindness knows no borders, all the way good, Mr. Hiroshi Yamazaki!