In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army gave the impression that they would not surrender after being killed, and even would rather commit suicide than surrender, mainly because the Japanese soldiers were educated in militarism, which is their so-called samurai spirit.
Therefore, in the major battlefields of resistance against Japan, especially in the early stage, it was very difficult to capture Japanese soldiers alive, because Japanese soldiers would resist without a bottom line, and while the Chinese soldiers were not paying attention, they might have pulled grenades.
Some people may think that it is not worth capturing Japanese prisoners, but in fact, there are many advantages here, and the Chinese army can obtain information from Japanese prisoners, such as the technical level of the Japanese army fighting bayonets, and the characteristics of individual combat, etc., which are very useful information.
Of course, the most useful thing is anti-war propaganda, to put it bluntly, it is to plot against the Japanese soldiers, so that they can help China to fight the Japanese, the most famous is the "Japanese Eight Roads", which is the anti-war alliance of Japanese in China formed by three Japanese prisoners of war."
Later, there was the Japanese Soldiers' Awakening Alliance, but the most influential was a Japanese soldier named Ita Sukeo, who was a soldier of the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Kwantung Army, as early as 1933, he realized that Japan's invasion of China was wrong.
At that time, Japan had occupied the Northeast, and on March 30, 1933, in the area of Dalishugou in Wangqing County, Jilin Province, the anti-Japanese guerrillas led by Zhou Baozhong and the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Turtle Gang Village had a fierce battle, and there was a break in the battle.
When the Chinese soldiers were collecting ammunition, they found a Japanese transport car by the Gaya River, the engine of the car had been damaged, and a Japanese soldier and a letter were found not far from the car.
The letter was written in Japanese, and the general content was, "I have seen the leaflets distributed by your guerrillas, you are patriots and internationalists, and I would like to meet you, but I am surrounded by fascist beasts, and I have sent you 100,000 rounds of ammunition, and I ask you to aim at the fascists."
Later, it was learned that the soldier's name was Ita Sukeo, a member of the Communist Party of Japan, and the locals buried Ita Sukeo and the guerrillas together during the Qingming Festival, and renamed the local elementary school "Ita Elementary School" to commemorate Ita Sukeo.
The incident of Sukeo Ita delivering ammunition to Chinese soldiers had a very huge impact, and the headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army removed Major General Tsuyoshi Tsuyoshi from his post and his brigade was also abolished. Nowadays, in the martyrs' cemetery in Wangqing County, you can see a monument erected for Ita Sukeo.