Beginning with the July 7 Incident in 1937, Japan carried out an all-out invasion of the mainland and committed countless crimes.
However, not all Japanese people are stubborn, for example, the Japanese Communist Party has specially organized an "anti-war alliance association" to be stationed in Yan'an for a long time to carry out anti-war propaganda work against Japan.
In addition, there are some Japanese soldiers who were captured by the Eighth Route Army, and after education and reformation, they also recognized the crimes of Japanese militarism and turned to work for the Eighth Route Army, such as the Miyagawa Hideo introduced today.
In August 1944, after careful study, the Enemy Engineering Section of the First Military Sub-district of the Jiluyu Military Region decided to set up a Jinpu Railway Task Force against the Japanese Army, the main task of which was to do the work of winning over the Japanese army, and to disintegrate the psychological defense line of the Japanese soldiers by writing letters, posting propaganda materials, or shouting at the enemy on the spot.
Therefore, after reporting to their superiors for approval, they sent a letter to the "Anti-War Alliance Association" in Yan'an, hoping that they could send a capable cadre to join the Jinpu Railway Task Force.
The Anti-War Alliance soon sent a staff member, Hideo Miyagawa.
Hideo Miyagawa was short in stature, wore glasses, and looked like a weak scholar, so how did he change from a Japanese army invading China to a member of the "Anti-War Alliance"?
Born in 1918 in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, Hideo Miyagawa joined the army at the age of 13 because he was encouraged by Japanese militarism propaganda from an early age, and came to China with the troops in 1939 to participate in the war of aggression against China.
In 1941, during a battle, Hideo Miyagawa was captured by the Eighth Route Army.
At first, he felt very frightened, because in the propaganda of the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army was described as a "demon", and as long as he was captured by them, he would live or die!
However, Miyagawa Hideo soon discovered that the facts were not at all what the Japanese army had advertised, that the Eighth Route Army treated prisoners very favorably, even better than the living conditions of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, and that there were people who specially preached policies to them, and that if they had any difficulties, the Eighth Route Army would help them solve them.
This greatly touched Miyagawa Hideo's thinking, and he gradually realized the true face of this war of aggression against China, so he took the initiative to apply to join the Eighth Route Army and used his favorable conditions to carry out anti-war propaganda against Japan.
Hideo Miyagawa was Japanese and knew the situation of Japanese soldiers, plus he was cultured and had a good study of propaganda work in peacetime, so soon after he arrived at the Tsuura Railway Team, he successfully persuaded all 7 Japanese soldiers in a Japanese stronghold to surrender.
This "tremendous" achievement was fully affirmed by Ding Ning, the leader of the task force, and Li Luolov, the deputy leader of the task force, who encouraged him to continue to work hard and asked his superiors to commend him once.
Hideo Miyagawa was also greatly encouraged and worked harder at work.
In his work, Miyagawa Hideo found that the reason why japanese soldiers were so crazy was largely because the Japanese army had been vilifying the soldiers and civilians in the anti-Japanese base areas, describing them as devils who did nothing evil, and as long as they fell into their hands, they would live worse than die.
Therefore, Miyagawa Hideo started from the front, printed a large number of propaganda materials, publicized the policies of the Eighth Route Army, and introduced that the Chinese military and civilians are simple and kind people, and should not be deceived by the japanese military high-level.
At the same time, in view of the problems of veterans of the Japanese army beating new recruits and the commander deducting the soldier's salary, he also put forward propaganda slogans such as "soldiers are not cattle and horses", "who gives the prefect's privileges", "mother hopes that you go home, do not make senseless sacrifices", which effectively disintegrated the morale of Japanese soldiers and won many Japanese soldiers to come and surrender.
As Hideo Miyagawa's work became more and more outstanding, he was soon promoted to vice chairman of the Jiluyu Border Region Agreement of the Japanese People's Liberation League and elected as a senator of the Jiluyu Border Region. It can be seen that the people and the government in the border areas are highly positive about his work.
But the better he did his job, the more frightened the Japanese became, making him a key target, wanting him with all their might, and forming a special assassination squad in an attempt to get rid of him.
Later, in order to protect the safety of him and his family, the "Anti-War Alliance" and the Enemy Engineering Department of the Eighth Route Army forged a resume for him, and his place of origin and name were changed, and his real name was Keiyoshi Miyagawa, changed to Hideo Miyagawa, and his place of origin was changed from the original Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan to Okinawa Prefecture.
On June 12, 1945, due to several days of intensive work, the Jinpu Railway Team entered Guanzhuang for rest.
At this time, the Japanese army detected their resting place, quickly mobilized 1500 gendarme agents, fully surrounded Guanzhuang, three layers inside and three layers outside, and gradually closed and began to attack.
The task force was well aware that the disparity between the enemy and us was too great, and this time it was afraid that there would be more evil than the enemy, so they immediately destroyed all the documents and began to break through.
The Japanese closed all the intersections and began to search the village door to door, and the team had to disperse to break through. In the process of breaking through, Miyagawa Hideo engaged the enemy, and after killing two Japanese troops, he found that there was no way to retreat, and in order not to be captured, he chose to commit suicide by drinking bullets, at the age of 27.
After the Japanese army compared the photos, they found that he was Hideo Miyagawa, and they were very excited, so they took his body back.
The news of the siege of the Jinpu Railway Task Force soon reached the Jilu-Yu Border Region, which immediately sent people to the rescue. After learning that Hideo Miyagawa had died heroically and that his body had been snatched away by the Japanese army, the border area armed engineering team sneaked into the Japanese stronghold overnight, snatched the body of Hideo Miyagawa back, and buried it in sunjiatu village.
After the founding of New China, the party and the people did not forget Hideo Miyagawa and moved his remains to the Dafengshan Martyrs' Cemetery in Jinan, Shandong, and every year during the Qingming Festival, countless people came to pay tribute to him.
On September 1, 2014, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced the first list of 300 anti-Japanese heroes and heroes, including 8 foreigners, including Hideo Miyagawa, who expressed his high respect and affirmation for this internationalist fighter.
Seven other expatriates included Canadian doctor Bethune, Indian doctor Ko Dihua, Polish journalist Hans Heber, Soviet pilot Kurischenko, Soviet pilot Marchchenkov, American pilot William Rhett, and Aviation School American flight instructor Robert Short.
(References: "War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", "Qilu Evening News", "Literature and History Expo")