Hideko Midorikawa is a japanese writer who is also a strong internationalist fighter.
She loves her hometown, but she hates her country's aggression against China.
Using paper and pencil as a weapon, she angrily accused the country of aggression and atrocities, but was scolded by her compatriots as a "traitorous slave of the country."
Zhou En: "You are not a traitorous slave, you are a loyal daughter of Japan, a true patriot." ”
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Hideko Midorikawa, whose real name is Teruko Hasegawa, was born on March 7, 1912 in Saabashi, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, the son of a civil engineer and a wealthy family.
Young Hideko Midorikawa is very willful, she is not like the general gentle and quiet girl, is a playful child, other girls like dolls, family, Midorikawa Hideko but like to play and make trouble, the personality is very similar to boys.
In 1929, in order to get rid of the discipline of the family, Hideko Midorikawa filled out two volunteers at the same time when she entered the university, namely Tokyo Women's University and Nara Girls' High School.
Hideko Midorikawa
In order to be more independent, Hideko Midorikawa chose a school farther from home, Nara Female High School, she chose this school, one is for independence, and the other is because the city where this school is located is very classical, it is a famous cultural ancient city.
During her time at school, Hideko Midorikawa worked very hard and showed a strong literary talent, she read novels, poetry and prose, which can be said to be a wide range of books, and also published a lot of short essays.
In 1932, Hideko Midorikawa began to learn Esperanto, organized a small cultural organization, and had contact with local trade union cultural groups, and her revolutionary temperament became stronger.
One night in the autumn of the same year, after washing, Hideko Midorikawa sat alone in her room reading a book, indulging in the ocean of knowledge, not noticing that danger had come.
Suddenly, there was a sharp knock at the door, and before Hideko Midorikawa could open the door, a group of police officers forced their way in.
Hideko Midorikawa was a little frightened, but forced herself to calm down, and she asked the other party, "What are you doing here?" ”
The leading policeman said very strongly: "Do you still have to ask?" What you did yourself is not clear? ”
Later, Hideko Midorikawa was arrested and put into the police station, but fortunately she did not do anything out of the ordinary at that time, and the police could only determine that she was a person with "dangerous ideas".
After Hideko Midorikawa was released and returned home, the news of her arrest soon reached the school, and for the sake of the school's reputation, the school expelled her, and Hideko Midorikawa was only three months away from graduation.
Although she was expelled from school, Hideko Midorikawa was not discouraged, and she bravely went forward, and after returning to Tokyo, she joined the Japanese Proletarian Esperanto League and participated in many Esperanto activities.
Later, Hideko Midorikawa became a member of the Japanese Esperanto Literature Research Association, writing articles for Esperanto publications.
In 1936, Hideko Midorikawa met a Chinese student named Liu Ren, and with the passage of time, after the two had more contact, they also sparked love, they quickly established a relationship, and entered the marriage hall in this year.
In April 1937, Liu Ren returned to China, Andikawa Hideko missed her husband very much, and soon set out on a journey to China, her first stop in China was Shanghai, and this stay was ten years.
Wedding photo of Hideko Midorikawa and Liu Ren
The ten years that Hideko Midorikawa settled in China coincided with the difficult years when Chinese people sought liberation and struggled for survival, and she suffered and fought with Chinese people until she was buried in this land forever.
Before coming to China, Hideko Midorikawa was ready to survive in a foreign country, selling the books and clothes that had accompanied her for many years, bringing only simple luggage and a "weapon" that had followed her for many years, the English typewriter.
Parents actually do not agree to their daughters marrying far away, especially to China so far, but Hideko Midorikawa has been a stubborn character since she was a child, and she has set foot on Chinese soil with her longing and determination for her husband.
When Hideko Midorikawa came to China, it was on the eve of the Lugou Bridge Incident, when the relationship between China and Japan was very tense, and war could break out at any time, but Hideko Midorikawa still came regardless of it, for this reason, some people called her "a woman walking on the flames".
From that day on, hideko Midorikawa's fate was linked to Liu Ren and thousands of Chinese compatriots.
Statue of Hideko Midorikawa
Hideko Midorikawa also once said: "Our union (Liu Ren) is inseparable because of Esperanto, Chinese, yesterday they were just foreigners to me, today they are fellow travelers, and tomorrow they will become my compatriots." ”
When she first arrived in Shanghai, Hideko Midorikawa contacted the Shanghai Esperanto Association and went to participate in the activities within the association.
In June 1937, a demonstration was held in Shanghai, a demonstration of people demanding the release of Shen Junru's "Seven Gentlemen", and after learning of the deeds of the Seven Gentlemen, Hideko Midorikawa immediately joined the procession.
Recalling the original actions and the deeds of that day, Hideko Midorikawa sighed many years later, writing as follows:
"My girlfriend and I held hands tightly, and I was sure that I was the only foreigner, the only Japanese among them, my heart beating with their hearts, my blood boiling with their blood."
On July 15, the Shanghai Esperanto Association held a meeting to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Esperanto here, where more than 300 Esperanto speakers gathered, and a sign was posted in the venue, "Esperanto for The Liberation of China."
Hideko Midorikawa also participated in the event, singing patriotic songs with a group of Chinese and meeting many enthusiastic Chinese friends.
On August 13, when there was a sudden war in Shanghai, the bustling city was suddenly plunged into fear, surrounded by people's terrified shouts, deadly shells falling into the crowd, and countless people fell in pools of blood.
Seeing the cruelty of the war and the death of countless people made Hideko Midorikawa extremely shocked, she could not understand why this war happened, and she also had a strong hatred for the brutal soldiers in this war.
But she was just a weak woman, she couldn't go to war with a gun, but she could write down all this cruelty.
Hideko Midorikawa (left)
After returning home, Hideko Midorikawa took the English typewriter she had brought from Japan and typed out her accusation word by word, and she worked all night to write an article called "Love and Hate", which was published in the Chinese Esperanto journal China's Roar.
In the article "Love and Hate", there is such a passage:
"I hate, the kind of massacre I have done my best to carry out between the two peoples, and whoever of them becomes a victim, I will fall into grief and cannot extricate myself, and my heart cries out, stop the war for the sake of the two peoples."
During that time, Hideko Midorikawa burst out with the idea that if possible, she would join the Chinese army and become a member of the People's Liberation Army, and she would stand with the soldiers and shout to the invaders: Don't make a mistake in spilling blood, your enemies are not here across the sea.
In order to stop the invaders from attacking, in order to fight for peace for the Chinese people, Hideko Midorikawa used a typewriter as a weapon and Esperanto as a platform to constantly express her inner accusations.
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In September 1937, Hideko Midorikawa also wrote a letter to Japanese Esperanto under the title "China's Victory is the Key to The Tomorrow of All Asia."
As Peiping and Tianjin were successively captured by the enemy, Shanghai was not spared, and after the Japanese invaded Shanghai, Midorikawa Hideko had to make the choice to leave.
In November 1937, Liu Ren took his wife south to Guangzhou, and with the help of Deng Keqiang, the couple went to the Esperanto Department to continue their posts.
At that time, China was trampled by the iron hooves of the Japanese, and Hideko Midorikawa, who was a Japanese, did not dare to expose her identity casually, but she was always Japanese, and her way of speaking and behaving could not be hidden.
In February 1938, On her way to work, Hideko Midorikawa was discovered by Kuomintang gendarmes who identified the Japanese and arrested her and deported her.
In desperation, Hideko Midorikawa could only go to Hong Kong, and when she learned that her wife had been expelled, Liu Ren immediately rushed to Hong Kong to find her.
In fact, at this time, Hideko Midorikawa could have returned to Japan and returned to her parents to live a peaceful life, but after she saw the Chinese people being invaded, she could not forget those cruel scenes, and she continued to throw herself into the torrent of anti-Japanese resistance.
A family portrait of Hideko Midorikawa, the front row is for her parents, and the left one in the back row is Hideko Midorikawa
After being expelled, Hideko Midorikawa spent four months in Hong Kong and wrote "Japan: A Country Under Barbaric Rule."
The first sentence of the opening sentence is straightforward: "Is this headline a hostile exaggeration?" No, it is an ironclad fact. ”
A year before the First Anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Guo Moruo learned of Hideko Midorikawa's situation, so she worked with friends to help Hideko Midorikawa get out of the predicament, and she and her husband went to Wuhan, which was the time when the Chinese people defended Wuhan.
If Guo Moruo knew What Hideko Midorikawa was thinking, he recommended her to work in the International Propaganda Department of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang to broadcast japan to Japan, although she only worked here for about three months, but these three months made Hideko Midorikawa unforgettable.
Feeling that the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists had been realized, and that the War of Resistance had finally become a veritable all-people war of resistance, she stood passionately in front of the microphone and told the invaders that their brutal acts were wrong, and she cried out for justice, for peace, and tried to awaken those compatriots who had lost their minds.
Hideko Midorikawa also shouted at the brutal Japanese soldiers: "There is only one enemy, and that is fascism." ”
As soon as Hideko Midorikawa's radio was broadcast, it had a great effect, many Japanese soldiers regretted her exhortation, everyone in the army was in danger, and there was a telephone soldier in the Japanese army who fled because he listened to Hideko Midorikawa's broadcast.
Since then, the escape of this telephone soldier seems to have become an invisible incentive, and the phenomenon of soldiers fleeing often occurs in the Japanese army.
Once, Hideko Midorikawa attended a tea party, at which she got up to give a speech to greet a foreign female writer, and she said the following:
"I am very sorry because I do not speak Chinese and English, nor do I speak in the Japanese of the invaders, but I have to speak in Esperanto, because Esperanto expresses the love and peace of mankind."
This passage seems to be plain, but it directly names the position of Hideko Midorikawa, who loves Chinese people, hates the invaders, and is naturally unwilling to use the language of the invaders to communicate.
One day, Hideko Midorikawa also went to meet the mother of an anti-Japanese hero Zhao Dong, Zhao Hongwenguo, and when she first met Hideko Midorikawa, the old lady smiled and said, "I am very sorry for you." ”
This sentence has no beginning and no end, which makes Hideko Midorikawa a little surprised, she does not understand why the mother of an anti-Japanese hero should apologize to a Japanese.
Hideko Midorikawa suddenly felt a wave of guilt, and instead of herself and the invaders, she sincerely said to the hero's mother: "No, but I should ask your forgiveness." ”
Zhao Hongwenguo also said: "You think we hate the Japanese, you are wrong, only a part of the Japanese people have invaded China, please tell you Japanese that China is a country of etiquette." ”
With that said, Hideko Midorikawa's guilt for Chinese deepened, and after she returned, she wrote an article called "Literature and Art of the War of Resistance", which read as follows:
"Where are the Japanese women who prevent their sons from slaughtering innocent neighbors, from organizing every woman, and from letting their husbands and sons go to inhuman slaughterhouses?"
More than a year after she first arrived in China, Hideko Midorikawa always felt that she had not done enough, and she wrote to Chinese soldiers thanking them for fighting for China and for using their lives to protect China.
A poem given by Guo Moruo to Hideko Midorikawa
After the fall of Wuhan, the Japanese army began to investigate the "murderer" who had used Japanese radio and caused the Japanese soldiers in the army to escape, and they found hideko Midorikawa's head and determined that she was the person who broadcast it.
This group of angry invaders, who called Hideko Midorikawa a "traitorous slave", was so angry that they sent assassins to assassinate this "traitor".
For her compatriots to call themselves so, Midorikawa Hideko did not care, she still used paper and pencil to fight in the anti-Japanese resistance, Midorikawa Hideko said: "Whoever calls me a traitor slave, let him call it, I have nothing to fear about this, and I am not ashamed." ”
In the winter of 1938, Hideko Midorikawa went to Chongqing, where she and her husband entered the international propaganda department to Japan, and later broadcast to Japan under the leadership of Guo Moruo.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had no intention of resisting Japan, and the general environment in Chongqing was also unfavorable to Hideko Midorikawa, coupled with her long-term travel around and no nutritional supplementation, which led to her deteriorating health and suffering from tuberculosis.
Even so, Hideko Midorikawa did not stop working, and a Japanese signal soldier who had followed the troops to China recalled Hideko Midorikawa's broadcast and said: "Chongqing Broadcasting, secretly listening, the fluent Japanese, makes people's hearts can not be calm." ”
At the time, Hideko Midorikawa was also the main writer of the Chongqing Esperanto publication China Report, and in 1941 she translated a book by a Japanese writer in Esperanto, entitled "The Undead Soldier", a novel by Japanese writer Tatsuzo Ishikawa exposing the brutality of the Japanese army.
As the situation became more and more tense, Hideko Midorikawa also realized that Chongqing could not stay longer.
On July 27, 1941, a gathering of cultural people in Chongqing was held to welcome Guo Moruo back to China, at which Hideko Midorikawa met Zhou Enlai, whom she had long admired.
At this time, Zhou Enlai had also heard the name of Hideko Midorikawa, and he smiled and said to Hideko Midorikawa:
"Japanese imperialism calls you a 'traitorous slave,' but in fact you are a loyal daughter of the Japanese people and a true patriot."
A newspaper that published Hideko Midorikawa as a traitorous slave
Zhou Enlai's words deeply touched Hideko Midorikawa, and she bowed to Zhou Enlai and said with gratitude: "This is the greatest encouragement to me, and it is also the highest reward for my insignificant work, and I am willing to be a loyal daughter of the Chinese and Japanese peoples." ”
When Hideko Midorikawa signed with the other literati at the meeting, Deng Yingchao specially wrote his name and the name of Hideko Midorikawa in order to encourage Hideko Midorikawa, and Deng Yingchao said: "We fight side by side." ”
In the later stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hideko Midorikawa went to the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Association and took up the job of editor.
On August 15, 1945, she and her husband were talking in a simple house on the mountainside of Chongqing, and several Chinese friends came to visit, and Hideko Midorikawa happily chatted with them.
Suddenly, everyone heard a burst of firecrackers, at first this firecracker sound did not last long, but slowly, the sound of firecrackers more and more, the sound became louder and louder, Midorikawa Hideko and her friends looked out of the window, and suddenly saw someone in the distance holding a torch.
Just as several people were wondering, one of their friends broke in and shouted at Midorikawa and the others: "Japan has surrendered, and the hometown has been liberated." ”
The news exploded like thunder, and several people in the room reacted quickly after being stunned for a while, everyone hugged and cheered together, Andakawa Hideko cried with joy, she hugged her friend and said happily: "The day that day and night are looking forward to has finally arrived." ”
Subsequently, Hideko Midorikawa and her friends sang the international song collectively as if they had a tacit understanding, and that night, the people in the city went out of their homes to celebrate, and everyone shared the good news that had been expected for many years.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Hideko Midorikawa and her husband were sent to the northeast to carry out anti-civil war work, and their lives became more difficult.
A pair of children of Hideko Midorikawa
The couple lived in the countryside, ate and drank very poorly, the rice was moldy, and in order to save food, they could only boil porridge to drink.
In the winter of 1946, the couple broke through the Kuomintang blockade and went to Harbin, and in January of the following year, they were hired to take up posts at Northeastern University in Jiamusi.
Just as Hideko Midorikawa was letting go of her knot and preparing to start her life in China, an unexpected accident occurred.
Soon after Hideko Midorikawa entered the Liberated Area, she found herself pregnant, and considering that she already had two children, and in order not to delay her work, Hideko Midorikawa decided to have an abortion.
This decision was opposed by the surrounding comrades, but Hideko Midorikawa insisted on abortive, and Liu Ren understood his wife and knew that as long as she made a decision, she would not change easily.
Who knew that Hideko Midorikawa was infected during surgery, and the scalpel scraped her uterus, and she eventually died because the rescue was ineffective.
Tombstone of Hideko Midorikawa and her husband
Hideko Midorikawa died in 1947, on January 10, and after ten years of living in China, she lay buried on the land at the age of 35.
Three months later, Liu Ren, who loved his wife deeply, also chased after his wife and died because of his physical pain, leaving only a pair of children.
The Tohoku government attaches great importance to the death of Hideko Midorikawa, and has held a memorial meeting for her, and the pair of children they left behind have also been taken care of by the organization.
The couple, who had experienced hardships, were buried together in the martyrs' cemetery of the Jiamusi Sheep Farm.
In order to commemorate Hideko Midorikawa, in 1979, China and Japan cooperated in the production of a TV series called "Star of Wangxiang".