In 1945, the Chinese Expeditionary Force captured several Japanese prisoners of war on the burmese battlefield. Liu Yunda, who was the captain of the company at the time, was attracted by the female nurse in the captivity and saved her life. The two fell in love with each other and married each other day and night. After the war, they returned to China and spent decades in rural Sichuan.
But it was not until his later years that Liu Yunda learned that his wife was a Japanese nobleman. What's going on here?
Liu Yunda was united on the battlefield
Out of militaristic thinking, Japan has vigorously carried out aggression and expansion in East Asia in a vain attempt to establish an East Asian co-prosperity sphere centered on Japan. However, Japan's land is narrow and there are few people, and the young and middle-aged men in the population are simply not enough to be consumed by war. In this case, Japan even requires students and women, children, sick and disabled to go to the front line.
Shizuko Omiya was only 17 years old and was forced to come to the battlefield while still studying at a Japanese medical university to take care of medical logistics. She was brainwashed by the japanese imperial culture from childhood, and it was not until she saw the severed limbs and wreckage on the battlefield that she truly realized the cruelty of war.
Shizuko Omiya began to suspect the "war of justice" propagated by the Empire, which was clearly an invasion but was glorified as an impassioned justice. But this doubt was buried deep in her heart, and she did not dare to be known by others, for fear of being regarded as an outlier.
Shizuko Omiya falls in love
In 1945, the domestic War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered its final stage. Expeditionary forces as far away as Burma also gained a lot, capturing many Japanese prisoners at the city of Raingong on the Enochady River. Because the expeditionary force had suffered many defeats at the hands of the Japanese army since it entered Burma, the soldiers were eager to execute these prisoners of war on the spot.
Liu Yunda, the captain of the company at the time, thought of the stipulation in the Treaty of Geneva that prisoners of war could not be tortured and killed, and immediately stepped forward to stop it. A panicked female nurse in the army thanked him, and between the four eyes, Liu Yunda couldn't help but have a crush on the Japanese girl, and after inquiring, she learned that her name was Shizuko Omiya.
Because of the war, leaving these medical prisoners of war can improve the speed of rescuing the wounded, and has a great effect on improving the survival rate of expeditionary force personnel. Therefore, after a moment of heating, the soldiers calmed down and no longer had any objections to Liu Yunda's orders. Some people even joked that Liu Yunda had a crush on the beautiful nurse Omiya Shizuko.
Spending time with the army made Liu Yunda more and more attentive to the gentle and meticulous Omiya Shizuko. And Omiya Shizuko felt the tenderness of this iron-blooded officer for her, and also secretly agreed with her. In constant contact, she developed a sense of dependence on Liu Yunda and often poured out her heart.
Unexpectedly, the other party could understand her distress of being forced into the war and advised her to come to China to live in the future. After Shizuko Omiya and Liu Yunda fell in love, they were able to marry after being organized and matched, and the lovers who fell in love with each other were able to marry.
Identity exposure, inseparable
After the surrender of Japan, Omiya Shizuko followed her husband Liu Yunda back to his hometown of Sichuan, China, and Liu Yunda gave her a Chinese name, Mo Yuanhui. Although initially because she was Japanese, Omiya Shizuko received a lot of criticism. But after a long time of contact with people around her, I found that she was quite gentle and kind. The two lived a peaceful life in the countryside and gave birth to two sons and a daughter.
But this peaceful life was shattered by the Sino-Japanese Friendship Association, which came to look for relatives.
It turned out that Omiya Shizuko's father, Yoshio Omiya, was the president of the China-Japan Friendship Association. After normalizing diplomatic relations between China and Japan, Omiya asked the Chinese government to help him find his daughter, who had been missing on the battlefields of Burma for many years. As a Japanese nobleman, his son died at the knee, crazy, and in his later years he could not find anyone to inherit the huge family business. In desperation, I can only try to find my daughter who has not heard from her for many years.
The Chinese government organized manpower to help Yoshio Omiya find Shizuko Omiya, now known as Mo Yuanhui. Liu Yunda and his son were also invited by Yoshio Omiya to live in Japan. For a time, the people around them were extremely envious, and who was not happy to suddenly get a large amount of property?
Shizuko Omiya, who did not expect to have the right to inherit, was very happy.
But Liu Yunda, as a native Chinese, is not used to living in Japan. Even if the living conditions are much better than in China, his hometown of Sichuan makes him more attached. Omiya Shizuko found her husband's sullenness and unhappiness, so she willingly left Japan and accompanied Liu Yunda back to Sichuan to live a simple rural life. Their children remained in Japan and inherited their grandfather's family business.
epilogue:
It has always been easy to go from frugality to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. However, as a descendant of the Japanese nobility, Shizuko Omiya was able to abandon her luxurious life and be willing to live a life of poverty with Liu Yunda, and the two spent their lives hand in hand, which can be said to be rare. Perhaps it is because this feeling originated from the sympathy of the moment of life and death on the battlefield, so that it can be so unforgettable.
Shizuko Omiya, who chose to live in China because of her aversion to war, was also influenced by her lover Liu Yunda to take the initiative to leave Japan, which was keen on aggression, and come to peace-loving China. The combination of the two looks incredible, but in fact it is the result of a natural success.