In China, there are many victims of Japanese chemical weapons, who are forced to adopt meat cutting therapy, and the rotten meat that is cut layer by layer is the evil of the Japanese army invading China.
By 2003, the top ten people who touched China were not only Yang Liwei and Zhong Nanshan, who we know well, but also an old Japanese man named Hiroshi Oyama.
He helped China with world war II victims through law, prosecuting the Japanese government; Since he was in his thirties, he has passed laws to tirelessly question Japan's war crimes, running and shouting until he is old.
In 1994, Hiroshi Oyama served as the head of the "Japanese Lawyers' Group for Claims from The Victims of the Chinese War", leading more than 300 lawyers to uphold justice, and indirectly handling all the Chinese civilian claims against Japan during his tenure.
Because Japan has a rule that foreign lawyers are not allowed to appear in court, it is Hiroshi Oyama who speaks out in the Japanese court.
They have been harassed and threatened by right-wingers, and although the pressure is great, they have been passing laws requiring Japan to repent of World War II crimes.
Hiroshi Oyama is diligent and thrifty in selling houses and land, bearing all the expenses of Chinese victims and lawyers in Japan, and the content of this article is that justice has no borders, history cannot be tampered with, and pays tribute to the righteous Japanese lawyers!
First, the textbook case, which has been litigated for 23 consecutive years
Born in the 1930s, Hiroshi Oyama experienced the "age of madness" created by Japanese militarism, and saw many people brainwashed into cruel war machines.
In terms of status, Hiroshi Oyama became a famous lawyer in Japan in his thirties, earning a high income, and from the perspective of life, if he did not sue the Japanese government, he would be able to live a lifetime.
By 1963, Hiroshi Oyama had met the Japanese historian Mr. Ieagasaburo by chance, and the two became good friends.
Ieaga Saburo is not only a famous historian, but also one of the history writers of Japanese textbooks, and has a pivotal position in the Japanese literary and art circles.
According to Ieyasaburo's style, he believed that Japan should face up to history, just like Germany did not forget the past and open up the future, and be wary of crazy militarism.
Before that, Hiroshi Oyama was not very interested in history, and his friend Ieyasaburo told him the real history of Japan's World War II and hoped that he could stand on the side of justice.
According to Mr. Ieaga Saburo, he wrote about the Nanjing Massacre, the 731 Germ Unit... And other articles, which were originally the contents of Japanese textbooks, teach children to recognize the past.
What infuriated Ieaga Saburo and all sectors of society was that japan's Ministry of Education deleted all the articles he had written and prevented children from reading and learning.
(Japan historian: Prof. Saburo Ienaga)
Ieyasaburō was aware that the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology might harbor evil intentions, and even if he did not talk about conspiracy theories, why did the Ministry of Education delete historical facts alone? It should be a convincing statement that if you can delete textbook articles today, you can easily delete textbook articles, and in the future, you can easily delete the sins of the past?
From the historian's point of view, how can that bloody war crime, which should have been a wise "golden and jade saying" of reading history, be deliberately erased in the opposite direction?
Therefore, Ieyaga Saburo came to Hiroshi Ozyama, hoping that this righteous lawyer would help him sue the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
After Hiroshi Oyama learned of the causes and consequences of the lawsuit, he felt a great responsibility and made up his mind to help Ieyasaburo.
Thus, a lawsuit that lasted thirty-two years began in Japan.
At the court's hearing, Ieyasaburo, as the plaintiff, believed that the correct use of his articles in textbooks for many years could teach Japanese children to recognize the true history, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports
From the perspective of the entire human civilization, history will not change because of the views of a few people, if you forcibly rewrite history, it will only attract more shame and laughter from future generations, which is not good for the people and the national fortunes, whether it is a historical issue or other issues, we must consider it from a long-term perspective and understand what is true patriotism.
For this reason, the Japanese court held many hearings, but Ieaga Saburo and Hiroshi Oyama lost the case many times, and fought from the local court to the Japanese High Court.
Ieyaga Saburo swears that he will definitely sue to the end!
At first, Hiroshi Oyama did not understand why Ieyasaburo was so persistent, but as he learned more and more about history, he deeply understood the importance of authentic inheritance of history.
Until 1997, Hiroshi Oyama went through many hardships and finally won the final victory; Tragically, Ieyasaburō and Ieyasu passed away.
After more than three decades of litigation, Hiroshi Oyama withstood tremendous pressure, and because of these three decades of litigation, he has become a model for the Japanese legal community, especially in the field of history, and is regarded as the embodiment of justice.
In an interview afterwards, Hiroshi Oyama said: "I understand Ieyasaburo's oath to repent of the crimes of my country, which is true patriotism." ”
Obviously, Ieyasaburo is familiar with history and is a man of great wisdom, but unfortunately he lost to time and did not live to see the victory
Hiroshi Oyama talked about the difficulties and obstacles of most of his life, and he said that he had been mentally prepared for this, and as a native of Japan, he was more aware of the extreme ideas of Japanese right-wingers.
He stressed that he had long thought that the lawsuit would be under great pressure, but for the sake of Mr. Ieaga saburo's spirit, it was imperative that Japanese politicians change their erroneous concepts of history; We must restore the truth that history should have for the sake of the japanese people!
From the above, it can be seen that Mr. Nagasaburo, a famous historian, deeply influenced Hiroshi Oyama and let the other party understand what is truly patriotic.
Second, he served as the head of the lawyers' group and selflessly helped the victims of the Chinese war
Although the Second World War ended for many years, and the war of aggression launched by Japan ended with the emperor's announcement of surrender, all kinds of weapons left in China by the japanese invading Japanese army, especially poison gas bombs, became a major scourge.
But many Chinese villagers, who used to live in peaceful villages or on the run to construction sites, have been repeatedly injured by chemical weapons and bombs.
Because of the magnitude of the damages, the Government of Japan was sued for compensation.
In addition, many righteous Chinese veterans have also demanded that Japan apologize and face up to history, such as the prisoner-of-war laborers who were forced to take to Japan in the past, and suffered all kinds of humiliation.
These poor Chinese, after arriving at the Japanese courts, desperately need the help of righteous people.
Moreover, some victims only accept formal court reparations and apologies from the Japanese government, and do not accept donations from the Japanese government through other means.
As a result, there are hundreds of justice lawyers in Japan who have stood up at a critical moment to provide legal assistance to China's victims free of charge, not for remuneration or fame and fortune, but only for the sake of returning justice to society.
The background at that time was very complicated, one was the claim of the victims in China, which needed legal help; Second, regardless of the facts, the high-ranking Japanese officials actually said that the Nanjing Massacre "did not exist" and openly said that China "fabricated" the bloody case, and was brazen and shameless.
When such a disregard for facts by a senior Japanese official was publicly published, it triggered public opinion, and many people denounced this absurd and shameful historical lie.
A Japanese justice lawyer named "Onodera Takashi" led the establishment of the "Japanese Lawyer Group for Claims from Victims of the Chinese War", hereinafter referred to as the Claims Lawyers Group, advocating the restoration of history and compensation to the victims.
(Prof. Takashi Onodera)
Because Onodera Takashi rushed and shouted, many righteous lawyers responded and took the initiative to join this "unpaid, nameless and under great pressure" lawyer organization.
Their aim is to give the Japanese people a correct sense of history, to make politicians clear about the past, and not to shirk the guilt of the war.
Because of the urgency of the situation, a highly respected group leader is needed to lead the fight against the shameful politicians who falsified history and to help the Victims of China who need legal aid.
Who can respond? Who is the most respected? When discussing who would be the head of the delegation, everyone without exception thought of coming to Hiroshi Oyama, hoping that this righteous example in the Japanese legal circles would lead everyone to sue the Japanese government.
Hiroshi Oyama received an invitation to attend a meeting of the Claims Lawyers' Group, and unanimously recommended him as the head of the group after being voted by all.
Hiroshi Oyama is very happy, although his hair is gray, he said that he will dedicate his life to the cause of justice!
After the establishment of the team, it ended the dilemma of "lawyers fighting alone" in the past, and began to defend China's war victims in an organized and planned manner, criticizing those shameful politicians.
There is a Chinese lawyer named Su Xiangxiang, who specializes in the litigation against Japan of chemical weapons victims, and Su commented on the claims lawyer group led by Mr. Hiroshi Oyama: "It is our comrades-in-arms, friends, teachers, they are a group of Japanese people with noble personalities! ”
In the course of the litigation, the lawyer team led by Mr. Hiroshi Oyama won the respect of Chinese lawyers, and their dedication and efforts for the just cause touched a group of righteous people.
The Chinese claims lawyers in Japan hope that Chinese will learn more about Mr. Hiroshi Oyama, understand the great contribution of their righteous legal team, and make a lot of efforts to defend history.
Mr. Hiroshi Oyama has devoted a lot of time and energy to the victims of the war and to the truth of history, and the hundreds of righteous Japanese lawyers of the organization have devoted a lot of time and energy to this.
In addition to the well-known Nanjing Massacre, germ warfare, and comfort women, there are also Zhejiang Yong'an indiscriminate bombing cases, chemical weapons injuries, labor cases...
For example, there are a large number of people in China who have been poisoned by chemical weapons left behind by Japan, and some people have been gassed on their upper bodies when they were building roads; Someone was infected while investigating a chemical weapon left behind; There are also children who are splashed by poisonous gas when they play in the wild...
The qiqihar gas bomb leak on August 4, 2003 alone poisoned forty-four innocent Chinese and one person to death.
The victims went to Japan many times to sue the Japanese government, because there was no special medicine, so many victims could only use meat cutting treatment.
A victim named Li Chen, on October 20, 1974, was sweating and busy at a construction site in Jiamusi, when he suddenly saw that the slurry pump was stuck, so he reached out to check and repair, and found some black liquid.
The workers who came later fished out a gas bomb, so that they were covered with large blisters, breathing heavier and heavier, and always vomiting yellow water.
(Li Chen and his wife Wu Fengqin)
The hospital invited many doctors, but they could not find the cause of the disease, so they suggested that they go to the military experts.
When they were sent to the 202 hospital, it was found that it was a mustard gas burn, and then went to a number of large hospitals in the People's Liberation Army, although all kinds of experts made every effort to treat, but at present it is difficult to give effective cures.
Li Chen was hospitalized and died, the family lost its top pillar, his wife was forced to pick up cinder for a living, and when the scalpel cut open his chest, many organs and bones had been fibrous.
The rotten flesh was cut layer by layer, and the layers were the sins of the Japanese invaders, and there were many victims like Li Chen.
According to Li Chen' recollection, on the road to litigation, it is thanks to the journalists and lawyers of China and Japan who received help from everyone when he filed the lawsuit in Tokyo.
According to Chinese lawyer Luo Lijuan, after she arrived in Japan, she received pro bono help from more than 300 Japanese lawyers, and the other party did not seek remuneration or fame and fortune, and everything was selfless.
Luo Lijuan went to Japan to fight lawsuits year after year in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and she was very touched by the fact that most of the expenses in Japan were provided by Japanese lawyers and volunteers, and the funds came from donations from all walks of life.
No one expected that the lawsuit would be so long, and according to the recollection of the victim Li Chen, he waited until 2003 to finally win the lawsuit.
Li Chen clearly remembered that it was September 29th of the same year, he did not understand the judge's Japanese at all, only to see the Japanese lawyer's expression was very excited, always doing various gestures, there was a lot of comparison, at that time, without waiting for the translator, he knew that he had won!
At present, courts across Japan have been very sloppy in their attitude towards the lawsuits of Chinese victims, and after tens of millions of hardships, they have finally received 190 million yen in compensation, and Li Chen is crying with tears.
At that time, the exchange rate was about 14 million yuan.
The same court, in the face of victims like Li Chen, rarely pronounced a verdict in favor, and most of them directly dismissed the plaintiff.
This was followed by the Koizumi government of Japan, which did not obey the verdict and appealed to the High Court, followed by a long legal "tug-of-war", and if nothing else, there is a high probability of losing the case.
(Junichiro Koizumi)
Li Chen has a thought-provoking sentence, he said that although the Japanese government has always been perfunctory and prevaricating, he no longer hates the Japanese, because there are many Japanese people with conscience in the people.
When the victim gave a speech at a famous Japanese university, most of the Japanese people in the audience shed tears or even cried bitterly.
Third, outstanding contributions, won the honor of moving China
According to Mr. Hiroshi Oyama himself, the biggest pressure is the problem of funding, and the lawyers' group they have formed, one is to raise funds through the support meeting, and the other is that each member pays for it out of his own pocket, of course, the funds are mainly from the latter.
The support meeting, called "In the 50 years after the war, Japan's conscience was questioned", called on everyone to donate spontaneously to support Hiroshi Oyama.
Because the funds were too tight, when Hiroshi Oyama led more than 300 lawyers everywhere to fight lawsuits, he always brought his own bento to the court.
They themselves are very frugal, and for Chinese lawyers and war victims, they are generous every time, such as the Chinese lawyers mentioned above, from entering Japan to flying back to China, which cost about 50,000 yuan.
According to Hiroshi Oyama, they took the initiative to bear all the funds of Chinese lawyers and victims, trying not to let them spend any penny.
Many victims are either seriously injured or elderly with limited mobility, and most need to be accompanied by their families, so the cost will increase.
From 1994 to the beginning of 2004, Hiroshi Oyama spent millions of yuan on this, not counting the medical expenses donated to China.
Although the financial pressure is very high, Omiyama Hiroshi has never thought of giving up.
Take Onodera, for example, who borrowed tens of millions of yen, all of which were donated to the lawyers' group; There was a female member who would rather sell her house and rent a cottage to live in, but also donate money to support the just cause of the bar corps.
From beginning to end, Hiroshi Oyama has never taken a penny of legal representation fees, and although he has always donated it out of his own pocket, his family understands his cause and gives great support.
According to a 2004 interview, Mr. Oyama said that there are fewer than 20,000 lawyers in Japan, and that more than 300 lawyers are involved in their legal team.
Since mr. Hiroshi Oyama became the regimental commander, they have been harassed and intimidated by right-wingers, including their families, and have been repeatedly awakened by midnight phone calls.
What makes people feel angry is that one lawsuit after another has resulted in fewer victories and more losses, and although the outside world has advised them to give up, more than three hundred lawyers led by Hiroshi Oyama have said that they will stick to the end.
It is worth affirming that the lawsuit was not successful, the court admitted the historical facts, and the judges admitted the various war crimes committed by the Japanese army in China, which is equivalent to Hiroshi Oyama, from a legal point of view, restored the historical truth.
The Chinese lawyers involved in the litigation, whether they won or lost the lawsuit, will be grateful to Hiroshi Oyama every time and never complain because of the loss.
By 2003, not only Yang Liwei, who had been selected as one of the top ten people who moved China, but also Hiroshi Oyama, a Japanese man in his seventies, was selected.
According to the award speech, the old man has been under tremendous pressure for many years and has spent most of his life and painstaking efforts to unremittingly question Japan's war crimes of aggression against China.
In Hiroshi Oyama, we see the brilliance of justice, which does not take the country and the nation as the boundary, and can stitch the barrier between language and mountains and seas.
Anger after anger, shouting again and again, Hiroshi Oyama selflessly helped the victims of the war in China in Japan, and has always stood on the side of justice.
Warning after warning, threat after threat, the ugly face of the Japanese right-wingers, can never stop the light of Mr. Hiroshi Oyama's justice.
According to Hiroshi Oyama, Li Chen's claim is an individual right; He helped Li Chen in the lawsuit to make Japan clearly aware of the aggression during World War II.
(Chemical weapons left by Japan in China)
Although Hiroshi Oyama is old enough to no longer go to court to complain about the crimes of the Japanese invasion of China, the team he leads still advocates for the Chinese victims.
By the time of the pandemic, Chinese victims and lawyers had been able to obtain generous assistance from a japanese private lawyer group when they filed a claim against Japan.
After the epidemic, it is difficult to go abroad to appeal, so the claim is temporarily shelved.
Many chinese victims of chemical weapons left behind by the Japanese military can receive donations from righteous japanese people during domestic medical examinations and treatment.