"Except for your head and limbs, which are Japanese, the rest must be exactly the same as the Chinese soldiers."
This is what the Japanese demand of their own spy and special agent teams, and compared with whites and blacks, the Japanese have a natural advantage in culture and skin color in collecting Chinese intelligence and disguising themselves as Chinese soldiers.
As early as the Sino-Japanese War, in order to cooperate with the military operations of the Japanese army, Japanese spies would not only change into the clothes of the Chinese people, but even they would grow their hair and wear long braids, disguised themselves as Qing Dynasty men. Even if some of them don't pronounce Chinese in standard terms, they will say that they are from other provinces, so it is not unusual for their accents to be far from those in their regions. Coupled with the corruption within the Qing Dynasty, these Japanese spies often easily obtained top-secret information, and only 56% of the Japanese spies were arrested and executed after exposure.
After the Xinhai Revolution, Japan's intelligence on China reached the point where it was even more successful, especially the Japanese selected elites to form an advance team, all of whom disguised themselves as Chinese soldiers, went deep into various places, especially the base areas, to collect intelligence, carry out assassinations, and guide the Japanese army in sweeping and bombing. It not only caused huge losses to the Eighth Route Army and the Kuomintang Army, but also caused great panic among the people.
These so-called "advance team" members are not only proficient in Chinese, but also learn from Chinese soldiers in terms of eating, living, and traveling, and even their houses are dilapidated houses with bed bugs crawling everywhere. They also took a photo of a squadron leader who had warmly stepped forward to greet the real Chinese soldiers, and shook hands as they left. There is also a photograph of an advance team disguised as the Eighth Route Army about to set off, and the commander gave a Japanese military salute after his speech. It can be said that if these people do not admit it, it is really difficult to distinguish them, and this is also the terrible thing about Japanese agent spies.
