After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, countless anti-Japanese heroes were buried in the Dafengshan Martyrs Cemetery in Changqing County, Shandong, China.
Among these heroes who are buried in the ground, there is a Japanese.
At that time, the Japanese army committed unforgivable crimes against the mainland, so why were japanese buried in the martyrs' cemetery in China?
And what unexpected things did he do in the War of Resistance Against Japan?
The Japanese man, Hideo Miyagawa, was born in 1918 in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
At that time, in order to complete its plan to invade China, Japan implemented a policy of compulsory enlistment on the mainland, and Hideo Miyagawa had to join the Japanese army.
In 1939, Hideo Miyagawa came to China with the Japanese 32nd Division.
In the Battle of Shuangniushan, Japan was defeated by the Eighth Route Army, and Hideo Miyagawa was captured.
At first, Miyagawa Hideo thought that the Eighth Route Army would be like the Japanese treated prisoners of war, and when they were caught, they would be severely tortured and tortured by various methods, so they were very afraid.
At the same time, his emotions began to become uncontrolled, and he began to say in Japanese that he was going to die in the prison of the Eighth Route Army.
In the face of the Soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who came to monitor them, Miyagawa Hideo often broke his mouth and scolded.
But what he did not expect was that China's Eighth Route Army did not take such a cruel and inhumane way to treat prisoners of war, but sent them to the "anti-war awakening alliance branch" in a unified manner.
Here, a special interpreter is arranged to show them the atrocities committed by the Japanese army one by one, and then tell them about the hatred of the people of the world for fascism and the hard struggle of the Chinese people.
Under the education and transformation day after day, many of these Japanese soldiers began to change their thinking and gradually stood on the side of the Eighth Route Army.
In fact, these Japanese soldiers, before going abroad, had already been brainwashed by Japanese militarism, and they were actually very resistant to the anti-fascist education of the Eighth Route Army.
However, the Eighth Route Army impressed them with practical actions, and these Japanese soldiers realized that these Chinese soldiers, who they usually tried their best to exterminate, actually had a humane and tolerant attitude, which gradually made them start to have different ideas, and some soldiers also joined them under the education of the Eighth Route Army and became a member of the anti-Japanese team.
In 1943, Miyagawa Hideo was ordered to come to Changqing County, Shandong Province, to disintegrate and plot against the Japanese army, at that time the Eighth Route Army arrested a Japanese officer named Akihara, Akihara in order to escape the disaster, pretended that he had passed out, after being discovered by the local people, they surrounded him to beat him, at this time was stopped by Miyagawa Hideo who had just arrived.
Hideo Miyagawa stood in front of the angry Chinese people and told the people that they still had a lot of important information to obtain from Akihara, and the people put away their fists.
When Akihara was first captured, he thought that Hideo Miyagawa was a representative of the Japanese army, so Heio Miyagawa quickly released him.
Hideo Miyagawa told Akihara about his capture by the Eighth Route Army and his education, and although Akihara's heart began to waver at this time, he still did not give up the idea of resistance in his heart.
Hideo Miyagawa told Akihara many times about the education he had received in the "Anti-War Awakening Alliance Branch", and finally made Akihara change his mind and give up resistance.
However, Akihara later said that he missed his hometown very much and hoped to be able to return home.
Later, Hideo Miyagawa reflected with the superiors of the troops, and the troops reported to the military sub-district, and finally after consideration, agreed to Akibara's request to return home.
Before leaving, Akihara also realized his misdeeds and said that the Eighth Route Army was a good friend of his, and he would tell his family what had happened here when he returned.
A few months later, the Eighth Route Army captured a Japanese police officer named Nomura at a nearby station, and after taking Nomura back, his superior, a Japanese officer Takahashi, actually spoke to the Eighth Route Army and hurriedly released Nomura, otherwise he would mobilize a large number of Japanese troops to attack nearby villages.
For the Eighth Route Army, they never cared about the enemy's threats and provocations, and in the face of Takahashi's harsh words, the Eighth Route Army did not have any fear at all.
At this time, Takahashi saw that his remarks had no effect, and turned to the local puppet army commander, telling him that this was his territory, that his soldiers had been captured, and that he was responsible for ordering the puppet army officer to negotiate with the Eighth Route Army.
After negotiations with the puppet officers, and taking into account some comprehensive factors, the Eighth Route Army finally released this Japanese guard, during which time Hideo Miyagawa had carried out a series of ideological education work for this Japanese police officer, and gradually trained this police officer into an intelligence officer of our army.
After this Japanese guard returned to the Japanese army, he secretly revealed a number of important pieces of information to our army, which made important contributions to our army in the war against the Japanese army.
In 1944, there was not much time left before the Japanese army surrendered, and in order to speed up the end of the battle, our army set up a Japanese army task force in the Beijing-Hebei Luyu area, and Miyagawa Hideo was also ordered by the Eighth Route Army to come to this Japanese army task force.
Here, Hideo Miyagawa came into contact with more Japanese officers and soldiers.
During the day, Hideo Miyagawa and other team members distributed leaflets and wrote some anti-war propaganda and education materials.
In the evening, Hideo Miyagawa also had to exchange important information with the underground liaison officers in the local Japanese puppet army, and the work was very busy.
At this time, Hideo Miyagawa had completely regarded himself as a soldier of the Eighth Route Army in his day-to-day work.
When he was first captured, Hideo Miyagawa had many different ideas.
However, in the in-depth contact with the Eighth Route Army and the common people, he has been deeply touched by the kindness and simplicity of the Chinese people, and he feels guilty about the bad behavior of the Japanese army from the bottom of his heart, so he can only change the thinking of these Japanese soldiers through continuous propaganda and education.
In the day and night with the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, Hideo Miyagawa also established a deep emotional foundation with the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.
At that time, Miyagawa Hideo, like other Soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, would pay some funds and subsidies every month, and Miyagawa Hideo would take these few allowances to buy vegetables every time and give them to the Cooking Class of the Eighth Route Army to improve the food for the soldiers.
Not only that, But Miyagawa kept the three disciplines of the Eighth Route Army in mind, not only often self-reflecting, but also urging other soldiers and educated Japanese soldiers to keep these principles in mind.
A Japanese soldier who worked in a Japanese army team once violated discipline to flirt with the daughter of a villager, and was reacted by the villagers to Hideo Miyagawa.
Hideo Miyagawa called the soldier on the spot, took him to the villagers' house to apologize, and listed the soldier as a typical one, and reported the criticism within the Japanese army team.
Since then, few soldiers in the Japanese task force have done anything in violation of the regulations.
In order to better achieve the goal of propaganda and anti-Japanese soldiers, Miyagawa Hideo also came up with various propaganda methods.
At that time, Hideo Miyagawa used slogans such as "It is not the Chinese soldiers who are at fault, nor the Japanese soldiers, but the Japanese warlords" to make the Japanese soldiers realize the wrong behavior of Japan in launching the war and the truth that the Japanese soldiers were brainwashed by the warlords.
In order to further impress these Japanese soldiers, Miyagawa Hideo made a lot of cards, greeting cards and small sweets, etc., and distributed these gifts to the Japanese soldiers.
Although the gifts were not valuable, they were able to deepen exchanges and contacts with these Japanese soldiers and to carry out educational activities for them more effectively.
Because Miyagawa Hideo had spent time in the Japanese army, he was very aware of some contradictions and defects within the Japanese army, and starting from these contradictions and defects within the Japanese army could achieve the effect of doubling the results with half the effort.
For example, within the Japanese army, the vast majority of ordinary soldiers were treated unequally, and Hideo Miyagawa preached to them that this was not right, that within the Eighth Route Army, everyone was equal and respectful, so that everyone had the morale to fight and win the battle.
In the Japanese army, many Japanese soldiers were forced to enlist in the army and came to China, and they missed their hometown and family very much.
So Hideo Miyagawa constantly preached homesickness to these Japanese soldiers, aroused their eager return to their hometowns, and constantly provoked the anti-war sentiment of these soldiers.
At that time, the bases and headquarters of the Japanese army, as well as the training ground and dormitories, were full of propaganda materials and small gifts distributed by the Japanese soldiers who had been plotted against, and the Japanese officers could not clean up.
After many Japanese soldiers got these propaganda materials, they secretly hid them and studied them carefully.
When the Japanese officers found that these propaganda materials could not be blocked, they were very angry and began to attack the Japanese soldiers who were secretly hiding propaganda materials, and the Japanese commander ordered that whoever had these propaganda materials in their hands should be dealt with by military law.
The more the Japanese military leaders prevented these Japanese soldiers from learning about the propaganda materials, the more curious they became, and they circulated and shared them privately.
A Japanese soldier in the local Japanese police station was found to be hiding propaganda materials issued by the Japanese army team and was punished by the Japanese army.
However, the Japanese soldier did not give up the idea of going home because of this, and still slacked off every day, always looking for ways to go home.
Later, during a training trip, the Japanese soldier took the opportunity to slip away and join the Japanese army team of the Eighth Route Army, becoming a propagandist.
At that time, many puppet army elements were also affected and began to defect to the Eighth Route Army, saying that the soldiers in the Japanese army, their patrons, had begun to defect to the Eighth Route.
In order to eliminate the Japanese task force, the Japanese secret service agency, The Rakigen Mansion, sent a secret agent named Watanabe to find an opportunity to deceive the Japanese task force.
Watanabe, in the name of the Japanese Communist Party, wrote a letter in which he said that he would cooperate with the Eighth Route Army and would provide a batch of medical equipment and supplies to the Eighth Route Army.
The letter was eventually delivered to Hideo Miyagawa and his teammates, who, after carefully reading the letter, decided that Watanabe was a liar, completely in the name of cooperation, to deceive the Intelligence of the Eighth Route Army.
After analyzing, Miyagawa Hideo and his teammates believed that at that time, these military supplies were very rare and precious, and even the Japanese army could not supply them, but this Watanabe said that it could be provided for the Eighth Route Army.
When Watanabe discovered that his tricks had been discovered by Hideo Miyagawa and others, he tricked Wang Jiyuan, a member of the Japanese army team, to the station, and threatened Wang Jiyuan that if he revealed the information of the Japanese task force to him, he would spare Wang Jiyuan's life and seek a good position for him in the Japanese army.
However, the security team member never did anything to apologize to the organization, and eventually died under Watanabe's torture.
In 1945, on the eve of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army began to encircle and suppress the Japanese army team of the Eighth Route Army.
In order to avoid being pursued by the enemy, the Japanese team came to a village called Guanzhuang Village and hid here.
At that time, the Japanese army drew about 1,500 gendarmes from Jinan and other places, pretending to carry out a siege and suppression operation against the nearby Dafeng Mountain, but in fact these Japanese soldiers quietly came to Guanzhuang Village.
By the time the villagers of Guanzhuang Village spotted signs of enemy troops and were ready to report to the Japanese team, it was too late.
The members of the Japanese task force destroyed most of the relevant materials on the spot, and the soldiers prepared to evacuate in two ways.
Hideo Miyagawa had no time to leave due to the late evacuation, so he hid in the grass near the base.
At this time, the enemy soldiers began to approach the grass, and with rifles with bayonets, they continued to stab into the grass, and at the moment of a thousand shots, Hideo Miyagawa jumped out of the grass and killed two enemy soldiers with pistols.
Looking at the steady stream of enemy soldiers, Hideo Miyagawa, who knew that there was no hope of evacuation, raised his gun and committed suicide in order not to divulge the important information he knew.
The enemy soldiers who arrived later, finding that the man who had fallen to the ground and died looked like a Japanese, pulled the body of Hideo Miyagawa back to the Japanese base.
When the escaped Japanese team members told the superior leaders the news, the superior leaders, after asking for instructions from the military sub-district, finally decided to bring back the body of Hideo Miyagawa and posthumously consider him a martyr.
On a late rainy night, after receiving news from Japanese intelligence officers, the Japanese team and members of the local armed forces team went to the Japanese base and brought back the body of Hideo Miyagawa in the darkness.
After the end of the War of Resistance, the People's Government of Changqing County transferred the body of Hideo Miyagawa to the Daihozan Martyrs' Cemetery, and in 2006, hideo Miyagawa's body was taken back to Japan by his family.
In the war-torn era of the War of Resistance Against Japan, because the Japanese aggressors committed unforgivable crimes against the Chinese people, the Chinese people had an incomparably resentful and indelible bitter memory of these Japanese people.
However, among these Japanese soldiers, there are still a small number of Japanese people like Hideo Miyagawa who put justice and peace in their hearts, and they have made indelible contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan with their own efforts on the land of China.