In 1958, a shocking news came from Japan that a Japanese hunter had found a "Chinese savage" living in a cave in the forest of Hokkaido.
It is said that this wild man has been living there for 13 years, because he is living alone, so he has lost most of his language ability, and after being arrested, he can't even speak clearly, and it took a long time before he said a few words: "China. . Shandong ... high density...... Labor Liu... join...... Ren..."
To know that Japan surrendered in 1945, according to this person, he must at least be the Japan from 1945, is it the Japan that followed the puppet army to Japan after the surrender and withdrawal of the japanese army?
After investigation, it was found that this was not the case, this man named Liu Lianren came to Japan in 1944, and he did not come voluntarily at all, nor was he a puppet army, he was forcibly abducted by the Japanese.
Leaving aside how a normal person survives in the forest where wild beasts are frequent, the winter in Hokkaido is notoriously cold, how did Liu Lianren carry these 13 years?
What did the Japanese do when they arrested him?
What was his life like after being rescued?
This series of questions is also hovering in the minds of the Chinese people.
So let's first look at how Liu Lianren was discovered.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > "savages" hiding in caves</h1>
In January 1958, it snowed heavily for several days in Ishimori County, Hokkaido, Japan, and most families had already stockpiled ingredients for the winter.
In this kind of bad weather, people don't go out at all, but some hunters will take advantage of the cold and the animals to hibernate in caves and go to the mountains to find some caves to meet their hands.
A hunter in the village accidentally found a cave not far away, so he walked quickly with a gun, and when he reached the door of the cave, he found that the snow had sealed the entire opening, and only a small opening seemed to have been dug by man.
The hunter thought to himself: Animals are also very shrewd, and know that they must leave an opening in the air. He guessed that there must be some animal hibernating inside, so he carefully kicked the snow hole open with his foot.
Seeing that there was no movement, the hunter was ready to dig a little deeper inside, saying that it was too late, and suddenly there was a noise in the hole, and before the hunter could raise the gun, he saw a figure running out of the cave at a rapid pace, and disappeared into the vast snow in no time.
The hunter was confused by what had just happened, and the person who ran out didn't look like an animal, but more like a person, because he was wearing human clothes, but the speed of the thing was too fast, so the hunter didn't see too clearly.
The hunter thought to himself, maybe it was an orangutan dressed in human clothes, but when he looked into the cave, he found that there were some cooking utensils in it, and it seemed that it was really a person just now, but on this cold day, who would live in this cave?
He encountered a wild man in the cave, and the hunter was worried that he had accomplices, so he thought about it or went back to talk about it. After more than ten days, the hunter came to the mountain to hunt again, and this time he saw footprints on the snow near the cave, so he suspected that the wild man had returned, so he asked two policemen to check the situation together.
When the police came to the mouth of the cave, they did not dare to rush in, so they shot twice into the sky, and then shouted at the mouth of the cave: "The people inside have come out for me." ”
After a while there was no movement, and a policeman whispered, "Maybe the people inside know that we are outside, so they don't come out, so it is better that we hide next to us." ”
So they found a place not far from the mouth of the cave and waited, and sure enough, after a while, a disheveled, strangely dressed man in the cave probed to both sides, observed the situation for a while, and then left the cave and went outside.
After he had walked some distance, the three men who were guarding the vicinity quickly stepped forward and grabbed him.
A policeman controlled the wild man, so he asked where he was from and what he was doing here, and the wild man who was pressed under him only made a whining sound in his mouth, and did not spit out a clear word for half a day.
After a period of time in the police station, the man finally had the urge to speak, and when the man said in non-standard Japanese that he was Liu Lianren, a laborer from China, everyone present was shocked, because the laborers who had been captured from China were basically sent back to China after Japan's defeat in the war, how could there still be Chinese laborers here?
After the police department reported the situation, the Japanese government began to wonder if the savages would be agents sent by China, but what was the truth? Is Liu Lianren a laborer after all? It all started in 1944.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="81" > terrible six days</h1>
Liu Lianren, a native of Caobo Village, Gaomi Jinggou Town, Shandong Province, was born in 1913 and has always been honestly working as a farmer at home, and was arrested in September 1944.
On that day, Liu Lianren had just returned home from the field, and his wife, who was 7 months pregnant, scooped him with water and said: "It's still so hot in September, you need to drink more water for farm work." ”
After Liu Lianren finished drinking the water, he wiped his neck and said, "But no, the big sun shines, the heat is panicked, right, just next door the big brother said that there is something wrong with me, I went to see what it was." After saying that, he also picked up the cooked sweet potatoes at home and nibbled on them as he walked.
Who knew that as soon as Liu Lianren went out, three Japanese soldiers came and arrested him involuntarily, and Liu Lianren shouted, "What are you doing when you arrest me, I am a farmer." ”
The wife who heard the sound also came to pull with a big belly, who knew that those Japanese did not listen to them at all, and liu Lianren was about to leave.
Liu Lianren was afraid of hurting his wife, plus he did not commit any crime, he confessed that his wife went home to wait for himself first, maybe he went to ask the next question and came back for a while, but Liu Lianren did not expect that this time, and then meet again has been 13 years later.
Liu Lianren was escorted to a pickup truck by the Japanese, in addition to him there were some young men who were arrested, and when the number of people was almost the same, the car started, and everyone's situation was the same as Liu Lianren's, no one knew what was happening, where to be sent.
In the process of driving, if there were young men on the road, these Japanese soldiers would stop the car and escort them to the car, and there were more than a hundred people in total.
These people were sent to the county seat of Gaomi, where the Japanese had a cooperative, and they were locked up here, and the group was very uneasy at night.
Some people secretly talked about the things that the Japanese did to kill people and set fires, and everyone felt uneasy about their fate, afraid that the Japanese would poison themselves, Liu Lianren did not sleep much all night, as if waiting for the verdict of fate.
The next day, as soon as dawn came, the Japanese took them out with bayonets and took them to the train, where more than a hundred people got into one of the carriages, because there were so many people that everyone could only stand, and it was hot and stuffy inside.
Captured Chinese laborers
The Japanese soldiers had a particularly bad attitude toward them, and whoever spoke loudly would be scolded, and in such a crowded carriage, the Japanese soldiers kept particularly strict care of these people, and even when they went to the toilet, they would be escorted.
Liu Lianren is an honest farmer, he has not even been out of the far door, he does not know where the train is going to go, his heart is full of fear, plus the family's old and young people eat by themselves to farm, they go like this, what can they do, the more Liu Lianren thinks about it, the more sad he is, and he can't help but wipe his tears.
Of course, not only Liu Lianren, but everyone else was the same, and when they got to the back, everyone was silent, just standing shyly, under the bayonet of the Japanese devils, these people could do too little.
The train stopped and went, and with each stop more people came up, and I don't know how long it took for the train to finally stop, and these people were driven out of the carriage and then transferred to the endless seashore.
By this time, the crowd had been forced to put on their yellow uniforms and stand there in a neat line waiting for the next order.
Soon, a steamship stopped on the dock, they were put on the ship, and Liu Lianren followed the others to the ship in a daze and came to the dirty cabin, where the environment was not as good as the train cars.
When everyone was on board, the door to the cabin where they were being held was locked, and Liu Lianren stayed in the corner and felt the ship's rocking--- sailed.
Liu Lianren's complaint against Japan
The ship sailed for a total of six days, during which they basically did not eat except for the nest of a hard state at noon every day.
Not only that, because of the excessive number of people, the door in the cabin was locked, and liu Lianren felt that it was difficult to breathe in the back, and some people with strong seasickness vomited directly in the cabin, for a long time, not to mention how bad the smell was.
Although in the closed cabin, Liu Lianren felt that he was getting farther and farther away from China, and he began to feel desperate, and even had a feeling of being slaughtered.
Finally, after six days of sailing, the ship finally docked, and when Liu Lianren was driven out of the cabin, he was almost blinded by the harsh sunlight, and the people in front of him were all speaking in grunting Japanese, and he knew that he had been escorted to Japan.
The leading Japanese officers said something to the Japanese who had come to meet them, and before long they were caught on the train again and headed to their next destination.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="106" > hell on earth</h1>
Through the translator Liu Lianren learned his identity in Japan---- captive soldiers, although they were not captives, but civilians who were forcibly taken captive, but here, the Japanese said that they were what they were.
The group was taken to a place called the Showa Mining Institute of the Meiji Mining Company in Numata Village, Yuryu County, and it was not until Liu Lianren was assigned to drill coal in the mine that he understood why the Japanese had kidnapped them as free workers.
Since coming to Japan to work, Liu Lianren has not been treated as an adult, and their group of Chinese laborers have done the hardest and most tiring work, and they have eaten the least and worst meals.
Because they do not have enough to eat and work for more than ten hours a day, many young adults have low blood sugar and are often fainted by hunger, but those Japanese overseers think that they are deliberately lazy, not only do not give help but even a few whips.
Before long, everyone had gone from a sturdy man to a skinny man because of excessive labor, and in order to increase their working hours, the Japanese had to work all the time except for eating and sleeping, and even bathing was not allowed.
Many people not bathe for a long time not only emit a smell, but also full of scabies and lice, sometimes itchy to scratch with dirty hands digging coal, because there are bacteria, the wound that is scratched open will slowly flow pus, which is very scary.
In addition to these inhuman treatments, there is another most fatal thing. That is, the safety hazards among the miners are very large, such as landslides and gas explosions, so their laborers from China will be fewer than a few people every once in a while.
Once, Liu Lianren drilled coal under the mine to drill the corpse of his companion, and the scene in front of him made the Shandong han can't help but cry, both for the death of his companion and for his future.
That night, as soon as Liu Lianren lay on the bunk and closed his eyes, he thought of the corpses of his companions in the mine, and he suddenly realized that instead of waiting for death, he should escape.
So he secretly woke up a fellow villager who had been arrested together, and everyone agreed to flee when they heard him say this, so five laborers, including Liu Lianren, began to look for an opportunity to plan an escape.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="119" > 13 years of "savage" life</h1>
The Japanese guarded these laborers very strictly, and in addition to being patrolled 24 hours a day, there were many guards at the only entrance and exit, and it was very difficult to escape.
In fact, the Chinese laborers had tried to escape very early on, but they had not succeeded, and this time the escape plan, Liu Lianren, they were not as reckless as those people before, planning to succeed once.
One night in July 1945, Liu Lianren found that there was only one guard at the gate, and he hurriedly called four other people to prepare for action.
The five men came to the guard's hut in the dark, and when the guard was not paying attention, they knocked him unconscious with the stones they had brought, and ran wildly outside. At this time, the five people just wanted to get as far away from here as possible.
I don't know how long they ran, they came to a big mountain, and after discussion, everyone agreed that the mountain was safer, and if they were searched, they could still have a hiding place.
In this way, five people hid in the mountains for a while, and when they were hungry, they picked wild fruits from trees to eat, when they were thirsty, they drank mountain spring water, and sometimes they would go down the mountain to steal some potatoes from other people's vegetable fields.
After the remaining 3 people stayed in the mountains for a few days, Liu Lianren proposed to go down the mountain to see the situation, because they escaped to return to China, the 3 people took advantage of the late night to risk being arrested to come to the bottom of the mountain, but they walked for a long time only to see the vast sea, there was no way to return to China, the three people returned to the mountains in despair.
After a while, the three of them went to the farmer's house under the mountain to find food, but this time, like the last time, they were found again, and on the way to escape, the two compatriots who accompanied them were also arrested, and Liu Lianren escaped alone.
Liu Lianren, who returned to the mountains, was devastated, unable to return to China and lost his friends, and he suddenly had suicidal thoughts.
But looking around, there was no tool that could be used to commit suicide, Liu Lianren sat on the ground in despair, and suddenly, he saw the grass rope around his waist, stood up at once, plucked the grass rope and compared it to the length, and then put it on the branch.
After everything was ready, Liu Lianren prostrated his head three times in the direction of China, one was to bid farewell to the motherland, and the other was to say goodbye to his relatives.
After standing up, Liu Lianren did not hesitate to stick his head into the grass rope circle and kicked over the tiptoe stone, and soon Liu Lianren had a feeling of lack of oxygen in his brain, and he fainted as soon as he rolled his eyes.
When Liu Lianren woke up, he found that the grass rope could not support his weight, and it broke after he fainted, and this death did not die, but liu Lianren had the courage to live.
Liu Lianren began to live in the mountains, and the summer and autumn were fine, because the wild fruits in the forest were relatively abundant, and sometimes he could catch little hares or something, and he could eat a full meal with the stove stolen from the farmer's family.
In the winter, it is more difficult, the winter in Hokkaido is very cold, and the cold has become the biggest problem, Liu Lianren learned to dig a hole like a small animal, and then curled up and hid in it, so that he could avoid the fierce cold wind.
If you are hungry, eat a little potato and kelp from the farmer's family, and when you are thirsty, you will take a bite of the snow.
At that time, in addition to eating and living, there was also a threat in the forest, that is, wild beasts, Liu Lianren once encountered a dog bear when he was out foraging.
What he did not expect was that this bear did not attack him, but stood opposite him and kept observing, suddenly, the bear turned its head and ran away as if frightened, and Liu Lianren thought optimistically: Maybe because his appearance is too terrible, even the bear is scared away.
As soon as Liu Lianren sat down, he would miss his hometown relatives, he always cheered himself up in his heart, as long as he lived, he had the hope of going back, but because he was alone all year round, Liu Lianren never spoke, and gradually, he was about to forget how to talk.
Liu Lianren spent thirteen years in the mountains, and during these thirteen years he was like a savage, walking around in the forest, and even once was worshiped by three Japanese women who came up the mountain to pick mushrooms.
If he hadn't been discovered by the hunters, Liu Lianren wouldn't have known how long he would have lived in the mountains.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="142" > returned to China to complain to Japan</h1>
The news of Liu Lianren's discovery in Japan spread to China, and the central high-level people paid great attention to this matter, and the Chinese Red Cross Society at that time sent a telegram to Japan for the first time, and Liu Lianren was also protected by the Chinese Overseas Chinese Federation and other organizations.
Liu Lianren returned to China
Later, after negotiations between China and Japan, Liu Lianren finally returned to the embrace of the motherland by boat on April 15, 1958, and Liu Lianren, who returned to China, was welcomed by the Red Cross Society of China and other institutions, and also met his family and the child who had never met.
Liu Lianren himself was living evidence of the Japanese imperialists' cruelty to the Chinese people, and after returning to the motherland, Liu Lianren began to indict Japan's crimes.
Liu Lianren went to Japan 6 times to expose the crimes of Japanese imperialism in China and even made a statement in Japanese court, but unfortunately, until Liu Lianren's death, he did not receive an apology and compensation from Japan.
Liu Lianren
Liu Lianren died of cancer on September 2, 2000, at the age of 87. Before his death, Liu Lianren told his son that he must continue the lawsuit, and only when the Japanese confessed the crimes they had committed and apologized to themselves and their mutilated compatriots, he could be blinded.
In the end, with the efforts of Liu Lianren's family, on July 12, 2001, the Tokyo court of Japan ruled that Liu Lianren won the case, and the Japanese government did violate its post-war relief obligations, and finally Liu Lianren's surviving family received economic compensation of 20 million yen, which was also the first successful case of Chinese who suffered from Japan's war of aggression and a successful claim against Japan.