After the war, Yoshiko Kawashima tried unsuccessfully to exonerate the traitors as a Japanese, but she did
Today we are going to talk about two people, focusing on the latter, one is Yoshiko Kawashima and the other is Li Xianglan.
Yoshiko Kawashima must be very familiar to everyone, and Li Xianglan is the singer who sang "Night Incense" during the War of Resistance, why should I put the two of them together to talk about it? Because the fates of Yoshiko Kawashima and Li Xianglan are very dramatic, they have had an unclear relationship with China and Japan all their lives. Today Xiaobian will lead you to see what kind of dramatic life two people have!
Yoshiko Kawashima was originally a Chinese but grew up in Japan and later became a traitor. We all know that Kawashima Yoshiko was originally the daughter of Prince Su Aisin Kyaw Lo Shanqi, a Manchu Qing gee, but later after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, her father Prince Su, like other widows and children of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, still fantasized about seeing the day when the Qing Dynasty was restored, so she gave her daughter Xianxu to the Japanese Kawashima Nanasu as an adopted daughter, and Xianyue also changed her name to Kawashima Yoshiko, when she went to Japan, she was only 6 years old, but she did not know that her fate had quietly changed dramatically.
After arriving in Japan, Kawashima Nanasu sent her to school to receive a militarist education, under the influence of Kawashima Suwa, Kawashima Yoshiko was full of Manchurian independence, greater East Asia co-prosperity, and then was also deliberately trained in espionage, and when she became an adult, Kawashima Yoshiko was also sent to China, became a spy, did bad things for Japan in China, murdered Zhang Zuolin, established a puppet Manchukuo, and all kinds of things in the War of Resistance Against Japan, all of which had her participation.
Therefore, after the war, Kawashima Yoshiko was taken to a military court as a traitor, but at that time, Kawashima Yoshiko argued that she was Japanese and wanted to get away with it, but what she didn't know was that although she grew up in Japan and was raised by Japanese, her nationality has never been Japanese, and she still Chinese, so in the end she was shot for adultery.
Li Xianglan was originally Japanese but grew up in China, and was later regarded as a traitor. Li Xianglan' real name is Shuko Yamaguchi, she was born and raised in northeast China, but her nationality is Japanese, because her grandfather only moved to Fengtian because of admiration for Chinese culture, and did not change her nationality, so Li Xianglan is still Japanese, and her Chinese name is also because one of her father's classmates surnamed Li recognized Li Xianglan as a daughter.
In the era when Li Xianglan grew up, Sino-Japanese relations were still relatively sensitive, so people around her only called her Chinese name, so that many people later did not know that Li Xianglan's real nationality was Japanese. She embarked on the path of singing because she loved to sing and had a good voice.
Later, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese asked Li Xianglan to sing on a radio station controlled by Japan, singing some songs that expressed Sino-Japanese amicability, and was also vigorously packaged and hyped by the agency controlled by the Japanese, so at that time, although it was the stage of the War of Resistance, Li Xianglan was still very famous, after the war, Li Xianglan was brought to the court as a "cultural traitor" to be tried, however, when Li Xianglan said that he was Japanese, everyone present was surprised, and finally it was confirmed that what Li Xianglan said was true, announced acquittal, and then sent back to Japan.
Although Li Xianglan's nationality is Japan, her hometown is also Japan, but after all, she grew up in China, she has long regarded China as her hometown, she once said that singing those songs was because she was too eager to become famous and young and ignorant at that time, the Japanese later visited the Yasukuni Shrine, Li Xianglan also sent a text of advice to avoid hurting the heart of Chinese.