In 2014, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the mainland released the first list of 300 anti-Japanese heroes and heroes. And one of them is a Japanese named "Hideo Miyagawa", which has aroused widespread discussion among netizens.
Although Hideo Miyagawa participated in the War waged by Japan against China, according to the data, the Japanese army has publicly offered him a high price for his head.
Why did Hideo Miyagawa, as a Japanese soldier who invaded China, but was also called a heroic martyr of the anti-Japanese resistance, enter the martyrs' cemetery on the mainland?
Enlisted in the army
Born in 1918 to a poor family in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, Hideo Miyagawa wished he could learn a craft to support his family in order to ease the burden on his family.
Therefore, in junior high school, he dropped out of school early and learned the craft with the craftsmen, and he showed a good talent in this regard, and his life was getting better day by day, but the good times did not last long, and it was not long before Japanese imperialist propaganda began to spread in Japan.
Against the background of the "three-month occupation of China" by the Japanese side, countless young people in Japan were forced to take up guns and go to the battlefield and became executioners who burned and looted.
It was in this context that Hideo Miyagawa was forcibly recruited by Japan, became a member of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army, and then left his hometown and followed the troops to China in 1939 to participate in the war of aggression against China.
Hideo Miyagawa, who had just arrived in China, was deeply poisoned by Japanese imperialism, and always believed that he was on the side of justice and was fighting to establish a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and save the Chinese people, but did not realize that this was a war of aggression.
In 1941, the Japanese 32nd Army, under the command of Hideo Miyagawa, was attacked by the mainland army in Changqing County, Shandong Province, and was attacked by the Eighth Route Army.
The 32nd Army was defeated and suffered numerous casualties, and many Japanese prisoners who could not escape were captured by the Eighth Route Army, and Hideo Miyagawa was one of them.
After Hideo Miyagawa was captured by the Eighth Route Army, he thought about the humiliation and abuse of the prisoners captured by the Japanese army, and he was already ready to die.
He didn't want to be tortured, he just wanted to die, and he shouted along with his companions: "Long live the great Japanese imperialism." ”
Wash your face
After Miyagawa Hideo was captured, from time to time he would think of his relatives who were far away in Japan, and he could not help but shed tears, he could never go back, he could not see his relatives, in order to embolden himself, he recited in his heart the "Battle Training" of the Japanese army.
"Learn to face death, resolutely not to be a prisoner, not to endure humiliation, not to surrender, to fight to the death, to live as a prisoner is to betray the country."
The more he turned his back, the more bold he became, and his heart was ready to be loyal to the emperor, and even prepared to kill himself by cutting his abdomen, but fortunately, under the obstruction of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, he did not have a life.
Not only that, our army always adhered to the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners, even if the soldiers sometimes did not have enough to eat, but Miyagawa Hideo's rations were never broken.
It was the Behavior of the Eighth Route Army that made Miyagawa Hideo's heart shake, how the Chinese soldiers were different from what they knew, his heart was very complicated.
But as a prisoner, his range of activities was limited, and coupled with the language barrier, he was in a low mood every day, still worried about being suddenly executed by the Eighth Route Army.
The young warrior in charge of guarding Hideo Miyagawa noticed his abnormality and immediately reported the situation to the commander.
The commander speculated that it might have been caused by a long period of imprisonment, so he immediately ordered that, following the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, Miyagawa Hideo could appropriately expand the scope of his activities.
In this way, Miyagawa Hideo, with curiosity about the Eighth Route Army, walked out of the small courtyard where he was imprisoned, and followed the little soldier of the Eighth Route Army outside.
The first time he saw it was a group of Eighth Route Army soldiers sitting around a cauldron waiting to be eaten, and seeing this Japanese, the young warriors were about to pick up the things around them and be ready to be beaten.
But soon the otherwise noisy crowd had quieted down, and the little warriors who were ready to move had been stopped by the older warriors, who, despite the anger in their eyes, did not continue to move.
Have you been deceived all along? Just as Hideo Miyagawa was pondering this question, the big iron pot was already cooked, and the little warriors immediately surrounded him.
It was a thorough pot of wild vegetables, but the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were very much looking forward to this pot of wild vegetable soup, which made Miyagawa Hideo remember the scene when he was at home, when he had nothing to eat and occasionally ate some wild vegetables.
After returning to the room where he was imprisoned, the millet porridge on the table deeply touched Miyagawa Hideo, the Eighth Route Army himself could not eat enough, but gave the best rations to the prisoners, and since then Miyagawa Hideo has observed the life of the Eighth Route Army with an in-depth attitude.
Soon after, he discovered that the Eighth Route Army did not treat prisoners as cruelly as the Japanese army did, nor were they demons that squeezed the people at the bottom in the mouths of their commanders.
On the contrary, these raggedly dressed Eighth Route Army themselves were poor people who voluntarily joined the army in order to defend their homeland and defend the country.
At this time, Miyagawa Hideo already had the answer in his heart, such an army can never be an army that squeezes the people and has ill intentions toward Japan.
With deeper observation, Miyagawa Hideo thoroughly understood the conspiracy of Japanese militarism, and the Japanese army was an out-and-out aggressor, bringing heavy disasters to the Chinese people.
Hideo Miyagawa learned that the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, like him, only picked up their guns to defend their homeland, and their only wish was to end the war.
The return to a life without the smoke of gunfire, coupled with the ideological propaganda of anti-war personnel, Miyagawa Hideo completely woke up, and the imperialist ideas that had been instilled before were all wrong.
In order to free the Chinese people who had been tormented by the war from the bitter sea of war and restore peace at an early date, Miyagawa Hideo resolutely chose to join the Eighth Route Army and jointly resist the Japanese invaders.
Anti-war propaganda
Chairman Mao said in 1941: The enemy of China is not the Japanese, and the Chinese people have only one enemy with the Japanese people, that is, Japanese militarism and the scum of China.
After joining the Eighth Route Army, Miyagawa Hideo began to work hard to learn Chinese, and without language barriers, he quickly integrated into the Eighth Route Army group, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army gradually accepted this "Japanese".
Because Ofeo Miyagawa was actively reformed, he also enjoyed the subsidy of the Eighth Route Army.
However, after receiving the subsidy, Miyagawa Hideo did not use it to improve his life, but used all the subsidies to take care of the wounded soldiers, and he was like an ordinary Eighth Route Army soldier, eating coarse tea and light rice and drinking wild vegetable soup.
After a year of observation, Miyagawa Hideo's various behaviors were recognized by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, and he successfully joined the Communist Party, and he also took the initiative to follow the local "Anti-War Alliance Association" in Shandong and began anti-war propaganda work.
In 1944, Hideo Miyagawa returned to the place where he was captured, Changqing County, Shandong, the world is uncertain, three years ago Hideo Miyagawa was still armed with a weapon invading Japanese army,
Now that he is a qualified soldier of the Eighth Route Army, his job is also very simple, that is, when the Chinese and Japanese armies are confronted, he is responsible for shouting at the Japanese army and psychologically disintegrating the momentum of the Japanese army.
Especially in the gap between the rest of the two armies, he wrote materials in Japanese to expose the ugly faces of his superiors to the Japanese army and use it to disintegrate the psychological defense line of the Japanese army.
Hideo Miyagawa, who was japanese himself, was well aware of the psychological weaknesses of the Japanese army, and many of them were forced to enlist in the army and come to China to participate in the war.
Hideo Miyagawa also wrote a propaganda pamphlet in the form of words and pictures in the Eighth Route Army, which was sent to the Japanese positions at the first opportunity, and with his own personal experience, this propaganda was extremely effective.
Especially in the Japanese army, the commander often scolded the soldiers, and once the battle was lost, the anger of the commander was unscrupulously vented on the ordinary soldiers, so he specially wrote in the propaganda brochure that "soldiers are also people."
"Even if we win the war, it will only help the Japanese warlords realize their ambitions, and we just want to be reunited with our families." "Mom is still waiting for you to come home, don't make unnecessary sacrifices."
These words played a great role in the Japanese army, many Japanese soldiers' thinking was shaken, and the war lasted for several years, and countless soldiers in foreign countries had long had war-weary emotions and homesickness.
Later, during the Japanese festival, Hideo Miyagawa came to the Japanese camp alone and broke through the psychological defense line of japanese soldiers in the form of condolences and condolence bags.
Under the influence of the commander's long-term oppression and homesickness, a large number of soldiers laid down their weapons and chose to take the initiative to surrender.
Not only that, Miyagawa Hideo was also responsible for communicating with the Japanese army captured by our army, the Japanese army was seriously brainwashed by fascist ideas, and did not realize Japan's mistakes at all, but also many people believed in the spirit of Bushido, and chose to die after being captured.
Hideo Miyagawa carried out a pacifying job in front of them, completely ignoring the insults of the Japanese soldiers, and he asked the soldiers to think about their relatives at home, weren't the families waiting for them to go back?
On the eighth route army's side, only if they are willing to lay down their weapons, they will help them return to Japan.
At first, the Japanese soldiers thought that the Eighth Route Army was deceiving people, but then the leaders of the Eighth Route Army specially arranged for ships to send them back to Japan, and when they saw the Eighth Route Army, which complained with virtue, these Japanese soldiers suddenly woke up and began to publicize the anti-war after returning home.
Tragic sacrifice
Miyagawa Hideo's anti-war work was undoubtedly successful, Japanese officers took various measures to prevent the military from wavering, but it was in vain, in order to completely solve this trouble, the Japanese military top brass listed Miyagawa Hideo as the most wanted criminal, offering a reward of 10 million yen.
At that time, 10 million yen could buy a fighter, and the Japanese military high-level could be said to have paid for it.
And under the heavy reward there will be brave men, and soon a Japanese named Watanabe will begin to stir, disguised as a member of the International Anti-War Alliance, approaching the Eighth Route Army.
However, recognized by the meticulous eighth route army soldiers, this man named Watanabe knew too much about Hideo Miyagawa, which was obviously abnormal.
In 1944, Hideo Miyagawa and his comrade-in-arms LiLov preached near TheWandexi Guanzhuang, and in the evening, the two men went to the village to rest and prepare to go to the next place early the next morning.
However, shortly after entering the village, a group of Japanese soldiers surrounded the village, and when they learned that their whereabouts were exposed, the two of them rushed to break through, and in the process of breaking through, Hideo Miyagawa was unfortunately injured.
In order to avoid the Japanese army, the two chose to hide in the haystack, but the Japanese army did not easily let him go, and kept stabbing at the haystack with a bayonet.
Hideo Miyagawa knew that he was a target of the Japanese army, so in order to cover his comrades and protect the documents he was carrying, he chose to expose himself and lure away the captured soldiers, and after killing two Japanese soldiers, his ammunition was defeated.
In order to play a deterrent role, the Japanese army was ready to arrest this "traitor", and his life in the Eighth Route Army let him know what dignity was, and once he was caught, he would definitely encounter inhuman torture.
Eventually, Hideo Miyagawa raised his pistol and left the last bullet to himself, and the 27-year-old Hideo Miyagawa was forced to a dead end by his compatriots.
The Japanese army, with the idea of seeing people alive and seeing corpses in death, transported the body of Hideo Miyagawa back to the camp.
On the other hand, after learning of The sacrifice of Hideo Miyagawa, the comrades of the Eighth Route Army who had worked with him were indignant, and they had already had deep feelings for each other in the past few years, plus Hideo Miyagawa had long been a soldier of our party, so the superiors immediately ordered the body to be recovered.
In this way, under the leadership of LiLov, the Eighth Route Army braved the torrential rain to break through the Japanese defense line and snatched back the body of Hideo Miyagawa.
Later, in order to repay Miyagawa Hideo's life-saving grace, LiLov took his descendants and generations of himself to become the tomb keeper of Miyagawa Hideo, and told his descendants to go to worship every year.
And The contribution of Hideo Miyagawa has not been forgotten, and on the eve of the Qingming Festival in 1980, he was moved to the Changqing Shilinshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery.
In 2014, the first list of revolutionary martyrs issued by the state, Hideo Miyagawa, was among them, and he was the only Japanese among them.
In 2006, after many efforts, he contacted Hideo Miyagawa's niece in Japan and sent his ashes back to Japan to sleep peacefully under Mount Fuji and return to his roots.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has ended for more than seventy years, and the land that was originally filled with smoke and smoke has long been reborn and replaced with a new face, which is inseparable from the efforts of the ancestors.
Although Hideo Miyagawa was Japanese, he also made his own contribution to the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the stories of heroic anti-Japanese martyrs like him should always be remembered by us.