Can you imagine a Japanese in the People's Liberation Army? After Japan's surrender in 1945, such a Japanese People's Liberation Army Ito Ikuko emerged, and no matter who she was in front of, she insisted that she was a Chinese, and even in the face of the 84-year-old mother's retention, she still chose to abandon Japan and return to China. Why did Ito Become the People's Liberation Army? And why do you have such feelings for China? Welcome to like the comment collection.
Ikuko Ito with her husband
Japanese Woman Hachiji
In 1945, in the Mudanjiang Field Hospital, there was a special nurse. On the surface, she is no different from Chinese, but her crappy accent exposes the fact that she is Japanese. How could a Japanese woman go to a Chinese hospital as a nurse during the Sino-Japanese war? What is the identity of this Japanese woman?
People around her called this Japanese nurse Ito Ikuko. Although Ito Ikuko was a Japanese, she worked carefully and meticulously, and no soldier was dissatisfied with her, but because Ito Ikuko took good care of the wounded, and in order to better understand the situation of the wounded, she seriously studied Chinese, and won the praise of the Eighth Route Army.
Japanese female nurse
The one who felt the deepest affection for Ito Ikuko was a young warrior who was wounded in the leg by artillery fire during the war, and the wound later became infected. In order to save his life, the hospital urgently arranged surgery to amputate the limbs of the young soldier. The one who has been taking care of the little warrior after the operation is Ikuko Ito. It is not easy for the little warrior to move after the operation, Ando Yuko spares no effort to take care of his life, and the little warrior has a deep affection for this female nurse like a sister.
But the medical conditions at that time were really not very good, and although Ito Ikuko took good care of the little warrior, the little warrior died. Before the little warrior died, he still murmured Ito Ikuko's name and gave Ito Ikuko an apple. And Ito Ikuko, who was looking at the apple at the time, burst into tears, and she said that this was not an ordinary apple, but a piping hot Chinese heart.
Japanese surrender ceremony
On August 15, 1945, Japan officially surrendered, and Ito Ikuko, along with all the people in the Eighth Route Army, rejoiced. Subsequently, the Japanese government began to work on the repatriation of Japanese refugees and expatriates in China, but to everyone's surprise, Ito Ikuko gave up this opportunity, not only stayed in China, but later even joined the Chinese nationality, and has been serving as a medical soldier in the army.
In 1946, when the Liberation War broke out, Ito Ikuko continued to fight with the army, still working as a nurse at the Mudanjiang Field Hospital. At that time, the war was brutal, and many wounded were received every day, and Ito Ikuko happened to be type O blood. During the 4-year Liberation War, Ito Ikuko supplied plasma to a total of 107 warriors. Zhou Baozhong, former deputy commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, who began to resist Japan very early, praised her as a "female hero."
Japanese PLA nurse
Since then, Ito has lived in China and has been transferred to many hospitals. In 1954, the local hospital where Ito Ikuko worked was in poor condition, and Ito Ikuko often paid for meat and fish for seriously injured patients to supplement nutrition; coupled with the frequent emergency of the blood bank, Ito Ikuko had to donate blood all the time. After a while, the 30-year-old young man was left with more than 30 kilograms.
Later, someone came to the door and tried to convict Ito Ikuko based on her Japanese nationality. However, nearly 70 patients treated by Ito Ikuko at that time naturally stayed around Ito Ikuko and resolutely refused to take Ito Ikuko away, calling her a "meritorious minister".
It is rare for ordinary people to maintain a Japanese woman to this extent. But how did such a Japanese come to the ranks of the People's Liberation Army?
Ikuko Ito
Japanese female nurse jumps into the river
Ito Ikuko came to China, and the opportunity was still in World War II. In the summer of 1945, in the entire international battlefield, only Japan was still stubbornly resisting, and the Japanese army became more and more mad, and even began to recruit baby soldiers; at the same time, because the Japanese army's war in China was becoming more and more unsuccessful, more casualties and more and more nurses were needed.
At that time, Ito Ikuko was 20 years old, and had just graduated from the Japanese Nursing College, and was forcibly recruited to China by the Japanese military. Ito Ikuko is intelligent and sensitive, and although she is in the rear, she often hears Japanese soldiers talking about killing Chinese, which Iso is very disgusted by, but the sense of responsibility as a nurse makes Ito Ikuko have to take care of the wounded and sick in Japan.
Nurses treat the wounded
However, Ito Ikuko's patriotism did not bring her anything in return. In August 1945, the Soviet Union led 1.5 million troops to fight the Japanese army to the death in the northeast, and the most elite Kwantung Army of the Japanese army collapsed and fled in all directions. Ito Yuko, who worked as a nurse at the First Army Field Hospital of the Japanese Army in northeast China, also almost went to death.
At that time, there were many wounded in the Japanese field hospital, even including the families of many medical personnel, but the Japanese army inhumanely forced all medical staff to inject alcohol and air into death for the wounded and sick; and for the relatively weak children or the families of the elderly, they forced enema poison. After all the "preparations" were completed, the Japanese army forced all the medical staff to jump into the river, and those who did not want to jump into the river shot themselves.
Japan was defeated
Fortunately, Ito Ikuko has loved to swim since she was a child, and she was relatively young and physically strong at that time, so in the Mudanjiang River, Ito Ikuko struggled for 4 hours, relying on a driftwood, and finally persevered to the shore. In order to survive, Ito Yuko disguised herself as a man and mixed into the refugee pile, wandered around, and was rescued by a team of the Eighth Route Army.
Ito Ikuko had thought that the Eighth Route Army would speak ill of her because of her Japanese identity, but all the Eighth Route Army were very gentle with her. After feeling this warmth, Ito Ikuko's heart suddenly had a strong desire: she would stay in China to atone for the sins of the Japanese. Ito Ikuko knew that the Japanese soldiers were so cruel to the people of their own country, and they were even worse at Chinese, and Ito Ikuko was ashamed that she was Japanese.
Nurses help the wounded
Ito Ikuko stayed in China for 40 years, during which time Ito Ikuko not only became a backbone medical soldier loved by the People's Liberation Army, but also became a Chinese national and became an upright Chinese. However, After all, Ito Ikuko's motherland is Japan, and after the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations in 1972, how did Ito Ikuko choose?
A lifetime of Chinese
War was brutal, especially in World War II. World War II brought the Chinese people to Shanghai as never before, and also caused many Japanese to stay away from home, and Ito Ikuko was one of them. Although many Japanese expatriates in China at that time and Japanese who were in the PLA medical team with Ito Ikuko decided to return to China, Ito Ikuko never insisted on returning to China, but in the process, Ito Ikuko's longing for Japan became stronger and stronger day by day.
Kakuei Tanaka visited China
In 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka visited China, breaking the rigid diplomatic relations between China and Japan for more than 40 years and normalizing diplomatic relations. At this time, Ito Ikuko did not have to be a repatriated Japanese citizen, but could move between China and Japan in an open and upright manner.
In 1972, Ito Decided to Return to Her Hometown in Japan to Visit Her Family. Before visiting her family, Ito Ikuko's husband, Munakata, a Chinese People's Liberation Army soldier who was very supportive, told Ito that whether she stayed in China or Japan, she would respect his choice. When Ito Ikuko returned to Japan, she saw her mother and burst into tears.
Ikuko Ito (right)
Ito Ikuko had thought that when she saw her mother, she would be reluctant to leave Japan, but she did not expect that when she was with her mother, Ito Ikuko still missed China all the time. At that time, the mother and daughter had not seen each other for nearly 40 years, and Ito Ikuko's mother was not in good health, so I hoped that Ito Ikuko could settle in Japan and accompany them every day.
Faced with the request of her elderly mother, Ito Yuko made a decision that shocked everyone: to return to China. After a year of accompanying her mother, Ito Ikuko is still on her way back to China. After 1972, Ito Ikuko visited her relatives a total of 5 times, and each time she returned to China in time.
Because Japan was actively promoting the normalization of diplomatic relations with the mainland at that time, Ito Ikuko, as a representative of Sino-Japanese friendship, quickly attracted the attention of the Japanese government. Masahiro Odaira, who was Japanese foreign minister at the time, met with Ito Ikuko and promised that if she wanted to stay in Japan, the Japanese government would provide Ito Ikuko with a good life, but Ito Ikuko still refused the Japanese government's proposal because her heart was rooted in China.
After 1987, Ito Ikuko stopped working as a nurse and opened a Japanese night school to teach Japanese enthusiasts, and when some Japanese companies wanted to invest in China, Ito Ikuko also actively served as a Japanese translator. What's more, everything Ito Ikuko does is free.
Ikuko Ito (Middle)
In 1994, when Ito's husband died, Japan sent her a condolence payment and a form to help her and her children work and shelter if Ito was willing to return home. But Ito Sent All These Things Back and said something shocking: "I love China, I am a Chinese." ”
Since then, Ito Ikuko has been in China, living until the age of 92 and dying. Before she died, Ito Ikuko still left her most precious blessings to China, and she hoped that China would get better and better. What do you think about that? Welcome to like the comment collection.