In 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the notorious female spy Yoshiko Kawashima lost the protection of the Japanese army, and soon after was arrested and imprisoned in Beiping, becoming a prisoner of the military command.
A conundrum
The crimes committed by Yoshiko Kawashima during the Japanese invasion of China are too numerous to mention, and now that they have fallen into the hands of the military commanders, it is naturally impossible to escape the fate of being sanctioned. During her more than two years in prison, Yoshiko Kawashima was tortured in prison, mainly because the military commander hoped to get more valuable evidence from this female spy who worked for the Japanese army.
But Yoshiko Kawashima has a strict mouth, and no matter what kind of torture she is subjected to, she always refuses to admit her crimes more. It's just that her stubborn resistance can only make her suffer more, because she is not the only one who knows about the crimes she committed, and many people can prove her bad past, but it takes a lot of twists and turns.
It is precisely because Yoshiko Kawashima did not admit her guilt in her death that she encountered a lot of trouble when she was finally tried. When Yoshiko Kawashima was arrested, she was sued for the crime of traitor, but she refused to admit to this charge, because Yoshiko Kawashima believed that she was Japanese, not Chinese, so she should not be considered a traitor, but a Japanese war criminal.
Why did Yoshiko Kawashima bother with the identification of this identity? Because there is a big difference between a traitor and a Japanese war criminal, this is not a simple question of defining identity, but a question related to the fate of Kawashima Yoshiko, and judging from the results of the trial of the traitor and the war criminal, it can even be said that this definition is related to her life and death.
If judged according to the crime of traitor, Kawashima Yoshiko's crime is not complicated, there are two main crimes, one is to conspire with the Japanese, secretly fled Tianjin with Empress Wanrong, so he was rewarded by the Japanese army and was awarded the rank of army major. Wanrong is the empress of the last emperor Puyi, and her identity is a down-and-out royal family in the late Qing Dynasty, and her influence was not great.
However, due to the Japanese invasion of China and the attempt to establish a puppet state of Manchukuo to strengthen its rule, if they were able to control the last emperors Puyi and Wanrong, they could naturally put on a seemingly glamorous coat for their evil deeds.
But Wanrong was in Tianjin at the time, and it was not easy for the Japanese to take Wanrong away, and Kawashima Yoshiko also had a layer of late Qing Gege identity, whether it was to see Wanrong or to deceive Wanrong in person, she had a unique advantage, so she successfully deceived Wanrong from Tianjin, speeding up the pace of Japanese aggression against China, which is undoubtedly a traitorous crime.
The other is that Yoshiko Kawashima and Takayoshi Tanaka conspired to create the "Monk Incident", and then used their special identity to investigate the military situation of the Chinese army in Shanghai, and once again acted as a lackey of the Japanese army, and the "128 Incident" broke out under her instigation. This act of provoking the flames of war resulted in more than 10,000 casualties, but Yoshiko Kawashima took advantage of this to please the Japanese and take the opportunity to seek benefits.
Yoshiko Kawashima's crime of traitor is basically ironclad evidence, and according to the regulations on the handling of traitor crimes at that time, Yoshiko Kawashima will definitely die. What's more, Kawashima Yoshiko's crimes are far more than that, she has not done less to steal information, and has been operating in China for a long time under the Chinese name of "Jin Bihui", completely forgetting that she is a descendant of Aisin Gioro, a Chinese identity, and insists that she is Japanese when facing trial.
Yoshiko Kawashima tried her best to defend herself as Japanese, mainly in the hope that she would be convicted of a Japanese war criminal and not a traitor when she faced trial. The biggest difference between Japanese war criminals and traitors is that there is hope that they will be repatriated to Japan. This is not a fantasy of Yoshiko Kawashima, there was a Japanese female singer named Li Xianglan back then, who was repatriated to China because she was Japanese and picked up a life.
Should Yoshiko Kawashima be regarded as a traitor or a Japanese war criminal? This difficult question fell on the head of the Peiping High Court at that time. It is undeniable that the identification of Yoshiko Kawashima is complicated.
A chaotic life
After all, Yoshiko Kawashima even has three names, both Chinese and Japanese, she was born and lived in China, and she has also become a citizen in Japan. Even Yoshiko Kawashima herself may be in turmoil, because her life, since her biological father sent her to live with her adoptive father in Japan, has become chaotic in itself.
Kawashima Yoshiko's father is Prince Su Aisin Jueluo Shanqi, who was born at an untimely time and was unwilling to lose his status as a prince, so he had the idea of recovering the country. Shanqi found that there was no hope of recovering the country after several setbacks, and pinned his hopes on the Japanese, sending his daughter Yoshiko Kawashima to Japan and recognizing Kawashima Speedy as his adoptive father.
Kawashima Speedy trained Yoshiko Kawashima as a spy since she was a child, and brainwashed her, making her completely fall to Japan. Yoshiko Kawashima is young and ignorant, and her father is not around, which makes her feel that Kawashima Speedy is the person who loves her in the world. But what Yoshiko Kawashima didn't expect was that Kawashima Speedy just wanted to use her, and he didn't have any feelings at all, and even ruined her when she grew up.
Yoshiko Kawashima's temperament has changed dramatically since then, and she began to see people in men's clothes, and her spirit began to be abnormal. At that time, there was a Japanese man named Iwata Ainosuke, who pursued Yoshiko Kawashima, and once because Yoshiko Kawashima often talked about suicide, he angrily threw a gun to Yoshiko Kawashima after a long time of fruitless persuasion, and said: "If you want to die, go die."
Unexpectedly, Kawashima Yoshiko listened to Iwata Ainosuke's angry words, and actually picked up a gun and shot herself, if it wasn't for the rescue and picked up a life in time, Kawashima Yoshiko would have died like this. Yoshiko Kawashima, who came back to life, felt very aggrieved, so she wrote a letter to her brother, in which she told her about her adoptive father's atrocities against her.
Yoshiko Kawashima originally hoped that her brother could help him get angry, but she didn't expect her brother to reply to her letter asking her not to offend Kawashima Speed, because the "Manmen Independence Concept" that Kawashima Speedy Wave has been advocating has gradually gained more support, and her brother thinks that this is a critical moment for the restoration of the country, hoping that she can continue to endure humiliation, and even persuaded him to return to Kawashima Speedy Wave quickly and not to contact other men.
Yoshiko Kawashima was naturally reluctant to return to Kawashima Speeda, and realized that her father and brother couldn't help her, and she could only change her fate by herself. But instead of getting rid of the control of the Japanese, she wanted to curry favor with the Japanese and gain a higher status by being a spy herself, jumping from one fire pit to another, still not realizing the fact that she was a pawn of the Japanese.
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Yoshiko Kawashima did a lot of evil and did a lot of things that were sorry for the people, but she was also rewarded by the Japanese chieftain, which made Yoshiko Kawashima very happy. But Yoshiko Kawashima is just a chess piece after all, who cares about her life and death, as the Chinese army continues to counterattack, the situation of the Japanese army is getting worse and worse, and naturally no one pays attention to her.
In 1945, Japan announced its surrender, and Yoshiko Kawashima was arrested, and it came to a life-and-death situation. Even by this time, Yoshiko Kawashima was still unaware of her pathetic position in the hearts of the Japanese, and wrote to Kawashima Speeda, begging him to help prove that she was Japanese. But Kawashima Speedy Wave is difficult to protect himself, and where will he waste time for her, although he finally replied to a letter, but did not help her prove it.
In fact, even if Kawashima Speedy helped prove it, there was no doubt that Kawashima Yoshiko was Chinese, but later had Japanese nationality and was finally sentenced to death for traitor.