In December 2010, Luo Shanxue, who was more than 60 years old, took his 90-year-old mother Wei Shaolan to Japan. They were not for immigrants, but for the upcoming Asian "comfort women" hearings to indict the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during World War II.
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She was arrested as a comfort woman because of her beauty
In October 1944, Wei Shaolan, who had just been married for about a year, carried his infant daughter down the mountain to feed the pigs. The day seemed to be no different from usual, and after greeting her husband and mother-in-law, she set off. But what Wei Shaolan did not expect was that this would be the beginning of her life's nightmare.
Wei Shaolan, who was walking on the mountain road, was found by the Japanese soldiers who came to sweep. After a few gunshots, the timid Wei Shaolan did not dare to resist and was carried by the Japanese soldiers and thrown to the car.
Like her fate, there are 6 other women in the same village, and what is more terrible than death is the torture of seeking death and not being able to die, which is the true portrayal of Wei Shaolan's life for the next three months.
The Japanese soldiers used all the captured female captives as comfort women and became tools to vent their bestiality. Wei Shaolan and others also thought of resisting, but the Japanese soldiers threatened with bayonets, punched and kicked at every turn, and threatened to stab her young daughter to death. In desperation, Wei Shaolan could only endure in silence, like in hell, living a life worse than death.
On the eve of the defeat, the Japanese soldiers were even more frantic, humiliating and torturing Wei Shaolan and others day and night. Wei Shaolan thought about dying, but looking at the way her little daughter was asleep, she was full of strength again, so she silently planned the escape route in her heart. The Japanese soldiers were less vigilant about the comfort women's captives, and finally Let Wei Shaolan wait for the opportunity.
After returning home, Wei Shaolan, faced with the inquiries of her husband and mother-in-law, could only bury her grievances in her heart and did not dare to mention the encounters of the past three months. Unfortunately, due to bumpy day and night combined with malnutrition, her daughter died shortly after returning home. At this time, Wei Shaolan found that he was pregnant. There is no doubt that it is the children of the Japanese.
Seeing that things could not be hidden, Wei Shaolan could only tell his mother-in-law and Pan. She had thought about beating the child off, but heard Lang Zhong say that she might not be able to have children again after beating the child. So with the support of his mother-in-law, Wei Shaolan gave birth to the child and named it Luo Shanxue.
The tragedy of the "Japanese Cub"
Luo Shanxue's Japanese ancestry became the source of the tragedy of his life. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army carried out a brutal sweep of the local area, and it can be said that every household and the Japanese army had blood debts.
And how could Luo Shanxue, the descendant of this Japanese soldier, be treated with kindness by the villagers? Even his great uncle once had the idea of killing him and not letting him defile the Luo family's bloodline.
Since Luo Shanxue remembered, he saw the villagers pointing at himself; when he played with the children, he was pointed at the nose and called "Japanese cubs".
What is even more embarrassing to him is that when he grows up, he reaches the age of marrying a wife and having children, and women are reluctant to marry him after knowing his origins. So that Luo Shanxue, who is now in his 70s, is still a lonely person.
Luo Shanxue once hated his mother, Wei Shaolan, and thought that it was a mistake to give birth to himself. But then he realized that it was not his parents who brought him misfortune, but the Japanese invaders. He began to feel sorry for his mother:
"The Japanese soldiers were too vicious, they were beasts, causing great physical and mental harm to their mothers."
Luo Shanxue lived with his mother, and life was very difficult. He herded cattle and sheep and ate mixed food; wei Shaolan raised a few chickens at home, took eggs and chickens to the market to sell, and exchanged them for some necessities.
A tough road to rights protection
In 2006, Japan acknowledged that comfort women had been conscripted in Guangxi during World War II, and Wei Shaolan and Luo Shanxue began to enter the public eye.
At that time, very few Chinese women were able to stand up and publicly admit their experiences as comfort women, and they were afraid of being mentally hurt by those around them again. However, in the view of Luo Shanxue and Wei Shaolan, the Japanese fascists should be punished as they deserve!
In December 2010, with the help of media people from China and Japan, Luo Shanxue and Wei Shaolan set foot on Japanese soil for the first time. In the hotel, Luo Shanxue is hysterical and bitter, and he hates the Japanese for ruining his life and making his life a complete mess.
Whether it is Luo Shanxue or Wei Shaolan, it makes people look sad and painful. However, the Japanese government has been making excuses and refusing to pay compensation. In addition, The Japanese right-wing elements are still making up their minds about past acts of aggression and vainly trying to distort and dilute history. At present, the Japanese government is still regularly worshipping the Yasukuni Shrine and is unwilling to face up to the past.
In 2019, wei Shaolan, who was 99 years old, passed away, liberating himself from his life. Some comfort women have said angrily, "The Japanese are waiting for us all to die." Fortunately, the personal experiences of many victims, including Wei Shaolan, have been made into documentaries and have been permanently preserved, documenting the numerous crimes of the Japanese army.
The crimes committed by Japan during World War II are well documented and cannot be concealed, sophistry or distortion. Time does not conceal the crime, it only makes the crime more determined. I hope that all Chinese will remember the lessons of history, contribute to the strength of the nation and the country, and not let the tragedy of history repeat itself.