In 1950, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out. Against this backdrop, a battalion commander named Lin Sheng applied to his superiors: he hoped to go to Korea to fight. However, it was rejected by the leader because the leader said that you are Japanese and your status is too special. So, how did a Japanese become the commander of the artillery battalion of the People's Liberation Army? It's a long story.
Japan in the Showa period
Japan in the 1930s roughly entered the Showa era. During the Showa period, Japanese society was mired in a serious inner spree. Because Japan is a small country with small resources, although Japan has developed a capitalist system, there are still serious deficiencies. For example, in terms of Japan's economic structure, at that time, it was mainly foreign trade (Japan's local consumption capacity was poor). However, there is almost no marketing channel for the products produced by Japan: European and American countries do not look up to the products produced by Japan, while backward countries are often colonies of European and American powers. This kind of inner volume has led to a very serious hostility in The japanese underclass.
Serious hostility means that militarism has a market. As a result, Japan's expansionist ambitions began to swell. In this way, many Japanese teenagers actively participated in the Japanese army - for no other reason than not to be a soldier, because there was no other way out.
Meiji Restoration scam
Almost all traditional history textbooks believe that Japan's Meiji Restoration was a success, but it was a failure. Because after the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the original small-scale peasant economy collapsed, but Japan did not have the conditions to engage in capitalism - although Japan won victories in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, but behind these victories, it was really not all the credit of the Japanese - the world hegemon at that time was Britain. The British were weak in the Far East, fearing that China would be strong and unable to contain Russia, so they supported japan, which was inherently deficient, to consume China and Russia.
It is ridiculous that the Japanese regarded the victory of these two wars as how capable they were, so in the Showa era, Japan began to provoke the world' countries in the world. It turned out that even China, which was poor and weak in the eyes of the Japanese, had seriously depleted the Japanese army's strength. Moreover, with the start of the Pacific War, the Japanese mainland was also blown up by US aircraft. At this time, a small number of Japanese people with quite bright brains understood that it was an evil road to expect to get ahead by relying on foreign wars.
Japanese New Fourth Army
Prior to this, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army had also captured many Japanese soldiers in the course of fighting the Japanese army. It is said that our army is very good at doing ideological work. Our army patiently enlightened these prisoners of war: for example, you are all poor in Japan, you invade others on the front line, but it is you who sacrifice, and it is the Japanese nobles who enjoy their success. Under such enlightenment, many Japanese people have bitterly changed their ways and even offered to join our army.
The battalion commander of the Sanye Artillery Battalion, Lin Sheng, whose real name was Hyuga Katsu, was an artillery expert in the Japanese army. After being captured by the New Fourth Army, under the education and indoctrination of the New Fourth Army, he changed his name to Lin Sheng and joined the New Fourth Army.
In fact, the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army, and even chiang Kai-shek's Central Army, were very scarce artillery. The reason is simple, this artillery and infantry are not the same, the artillery must know geometry. And the education in old China was backward, many soldiers had not read private schools, and where did they know what geometry was?
However, the New Fourth Army and even the People's Army must have its own artillery and armored troops. Therefore, the New Fourth Army hoped that Lin Sheng would be able to guide and train the soldiers of our army to learn artillery knowledge. In this way, Lin Sheng began his career as an artillery instructor, and even served as a battalion commander of artillery during the Liberation War.
Korean
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Lin Sheng wanted to join the volunteer army, but his superiors believed that there was something wrong with Lin Sheng joining the volunteer army.
Because at this time, the Japanese militarists were still delusional and advocated that there should be Japanese troops on the Korean battlefield. If japanese appear in the Chinese troops, it is likely to give excuses to the remnants of Japanese militarism. Therefore, Lin Sheng had to dispel this idea.
In 1958, Lin Sheng returned to Japan and devoted himself to Sino-Japanese friendship.