In the body of the comfort women, they can only bury the stigma and experience of shame deep in their hearts, silently survive in a corner of society, and finally die alone. Their tears have long since dried up, and there is only blood if they want to shed it. Perhaps only this blood can awaken sympathy for these war victims·····
In this subsection, it is impossible to list all the historical facts of the Japanese army's use of Chinese women as comfort women in various parts of China, and it is not necessary, but in order to illustrate the brutality of the Japanese army in this regard, it is necessary to give examples.
After the Japanese army captured Nanjing, during the entire period of the existence of the "security zone", he searched for refugees in the area many times, and was forced to provide a large number of young girls to the "comfort 5" service, so that the Japanese army could ravage and vent their animal desires.
Chinese comfort women are women whose families have been burned down by the Japanese army, who have lost their means of survival, who have been lured to comfort stations under the pretext of recruitment, or who have been captured by the Japanese army during their "crusade".
The Japanese troops stationed in various villages and towns in China were equipped with comfort women, including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese women, and the proportion was determined according to the situation of the comfort women at that time. Some Japanese squadron leaders ordered their soldiers to capture Chinese girls and set up their own comfort stations in the garrisons.
After the fall of Wuhan, the Japanese troops stationed in Wuchang searched for more than 20 rural girls from nearby villages and opened comfort stations in Wuhan.
In Wuxi, there are also comfort stations run by Chinese women in the military.
On the third day after the fall of Baoyou, the local maintenance will appear, and most of the members are local ruffians and hooligans, plus a few local gangsters, and the emperor actually posted a notice. They set up a "comfort center" to pull 200 women for the Japanese army to vent their desires. As a result, these traitors were ordered to forcibly pull women of the right age everywhere day after day. Many women from good families were tied up with ropes and sent to the City God Temple, and a "comfort center" was set up. For a while, the women cried and shook the sky, and under the guard of the traitors, they were ravaged by the Japanese army.
Initially, a dozen women took off their clothes and tore them into strips of cloth and committed suicide by hanging beams. Later, the Japanese army ordered all the women to be naked and stripped naked to prevent further suicides. Many of them were women of good families, ashamed and landless, and those who could not resist were destroyed to death under the coercion of adultery.
Hongzhen is a small town with only about 100 dry shops, and it is very lively during the Japanese occupation, and the number of shops does not increase, but many electric lights are installed in front of many houses. Some of the signboards say "Fortune Club" and "Golden Cave", which are casinos. Some signboards say "A Line of Sky" and "Comfort Nest", which are smoke houses. But what is even more striking is the "comfort station" of the Japanese army.
By 1945, the Japanese front was too long and overwhelmed, so a group of Manchukuo troops were transferred to Shanghai. When the Japanese army arrives in a place, it is always arranged by the puppet local regime to arrange a "comfort station". In the comfort camps, there were low-class prostitutes and women from good families. Therefore, after the Manchukuo army arrived in Zhabei, they also concocted the same method and notified the local police station to organize a "comfort station".
But by February 1945, the defeat of the Japanese army had become apparent, and the chief of the armor was no longer willing to fight for the tiger, so he hurriedly told the residents to flee quickly, and they themselves fled, and finally, even the police chief fled. As a result, the "comfort station" in Zhabei has come to naught.
After the fall of Shanghai, the Japanese army marched into the small town of Sancanghe, and the people from the village office came out to greet them with freshly made sun flags. The Chinese soldiers fled, and they occupied the Sancang River without firing a shot or shedding blood.
At dusk, the wheelbarrows creaked into the town, and it was the leaders of the villages who came with pigs and chickens to comfort the Japanese soldiers, and casually formed a maintenance meeting. The captain of the Japanese army, Captain Ogura Hayato, asked for the "flower girl".
"There are no prostitutes in this town, and if a woman from a good family is fine, she can find some from the nearby villages," said the representative of the association. ”
Captain Ogura nodded.
A few days later, the members of the association gathered more than a dozen young rural girls and opened a "comfort station" for the imperial army.
The comfort station was improvised, and the bed and bedding were put in a large house, and the girl was stuffed into the room and opened. But the person who managed the comfort station was the Japanese army's accompanying interpreter.
At the end of the city of Nanning is a comfort station run by the Japanese army, which was relocated from Guangdong, with a total of 18 houses and more than 140 Chinese comfort women. However, the Fifth Division was transferred to the border, and the Guards Division went to Qinxian, so they had to withdraw to Guangdong. But for a while, there were no trucks to transport them back, so they had to be withdrawn one after another. They gathered their luggage and craned their necks every day in the hope that the truck would pick them up······ But in the city of Nanning, only the last group of Japanese troops who were ready to retreat remained······
After the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong, they burned, killed, plundered, and raped women. Later, a "comfort station" was set up in the Hong Kong and Kowloon areas. The Chinese women in the "comfort stations" in Hong Kong and Kowloon were all spies from Hong Kong and Kowloon, who were lured in various parts of Hong Kong and Kowloon under the pretext of looking for jobs on their behalf or in the name of recruiting workers.
Unwilling to be humiliated, some of the fierce women died when they hit the wall in the "comfort station", and some women shouted for help and were killed by the Japanese army. People living near the "comfort station" often heard terrible screams at night, all of which were made by Chinese women who refused to give in and were severely beaten by the Japanese army.
What happened to these Chinese women who were deceived into the "comfort station" one by one? The "comfort station" certainly could not accommodate so many Chinese women, and the number of women who committed suicide and were killed was limited after all, and it was even more impossible for the Japanese army to release them back after they had been molested.
December 25, 1944 was the third anniversary of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. In the Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter on the side of Ferry Street in Kowloon, a Japanese transport ship was moored, and there were many sentry posts inside and outside the dock on the shore, as if they were loading and unloading some important military supplies here.
The day passed in a flash, and in Hong Kong in December, night came early. The sea breeze is a bit cold, and people who are used to life by the sea know that another big storm surge is coming.
In the middle of the night, a covered truck turning from Nathan Road in Mong Kok into Argyle Street drove straight into Tong Mei Street and stopped at the cargo terminal on Ferry Street.
Two Japanese soldiers with loaded guns jumped out of the truck and opened the tailgate.
Amid the shouting, Chinese women with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes jumped out of the truck and were driven into a transport ship parked at the dockside.
This was the second night that the Chinese women had been loaded into the transport ship. How many times have Chinese women been transported like this, where have they gone, and are any of them still alive?
It's all a mystery. is a historical mystery.
The Japanese government has a good idea of how many Japanese women have served as "comfort women in the army."
The South Korean government says there are 80,000 to 100,000 women as comfort women, while North Korea says it is 200,000.
How many Chinese women were forced to serve as comfort women by the Japanese army? Even those who are most proficient in the history of the Japanese invasion of China can hardly say. At most, it can only be a cliché: thousands.
The unspeakable last sorrow of the survivors of the comfort women! The large number of military tickets they earned with their bodies became waste paper for a while, and the used comfort women were thrown away like garbage! After returning home, the comfort women would rather starve to death and swear not to sell their bodies again!
When history evokes a sense of shame, it is a time to be uplifted. Today, when the people of all countries denounce Japan's ugly act of ravaging comfort women, it is the responsibility of the Chinese to fill in this page of history. August 1945 was a day of universal celebration for the Chinese people, the people of Asia, and the people of the world, and it was also a day of amnesty for the comfort women who sent away thousands of Japanese soldiers.
A few months before Japan's surrender, the Japanese army was already in disintegration on the battlefield. The fate and situation of the comfort women, who were on the front line of the battle with the Japanese army, were even more miserable.
When there were only more than 80 Japanese troops left on a Japanese position, a Japanese captain ordered the sick and wounded who could not move to swallow potassium cyanate to commit suicide, and said to the comfort women, "Please run for your lives." There is no reason to be righteous for Japan. Take care of your life and go home, we will follow our soldiers!"
But the Japanese comfort women persuaded the Korean comfort women to hang up the white cloth and surrender, and they also swallowed potassium cyanate.
When the Japanese army retreated, the comfort women had to cross mountains and rivers like the soldiers. But their ravaged bodies and legs could not endure the torture of the forced march, some fell to the side of the road and died, and some fell behind and disappeared.
In retreat and besieged, starvation left the comfort women in a desperate situation. Some of the women were as thin as skeletal specimens, with long, unkempt hair covering skinny cheeks, and they looked terrible.
Comfort women who died of starvation or disease were also buried. Since the living people had no strength, the pit was dug very shallowly, and when they were put into the pit, they could not even bury their bodies, so they had to put some dirt and gravel on it. There was nothing on the tomb mark, because before they died, they refused to say either their names or their birthplace, but they only said to those who surrounded her, "Please take care!" and died.
During the rout, some of the comfort women also put on military uniforms and steel helmets. He wrapped the money he had sold, and asked the soldiers to take them away, saying: "We have a lot of money, please see that there is so much, and we are not afraid of wherever we go!"
But the banknotes were all military tickets, and with the defeat of Japan, the military tickets had become waste paper. The soldiers knew this, but no one could bear to say to them, "This money is no longer available!"
Some of the Japanese soldiers who fled in a hurry simply abandoned the comfort women and left them to wander or die.
Some of the fleeing Japanese soldiers dumped the comfort women in hospital units or units with little damage, and these troops demanded vehicles, fuel, and other military supplies from the fleeing troops on the condition that they accept them. Once the supplies were in hand, the officers of these units sold them to local merchants, divided the proceeds privately, and then abandoned the comfort women.
Some Japanese troops were even more brutal, poisoning comfort women who were sick and had difficulty moving with drugs along with the wounded and sick. When the health soldiers approached them with syringes, some of the comfort women struggled to crawl and dodge, begging and saying, "Don't pierce it!" or shouting, "Excuse me!" while others hugged the trunk of the tree and cried, "Mom-ma--", while some of the comfort women resolutely stretched out their arms and said, "Please--
As the fighting worsened, some Japanese officers said to the comfort women, "If you can follow, follow us, and if you want to commit suicide, you can decide for yourself." If you can't kill yourself, tell us and we'll deal with it for you!"
In the midst of the rout of the exhausted Japanese army, the comfort women lost their value of existence and began to be treated as a hindrance to eating idle food. In the station of a Japanese military hospital, some comfort women who were admitted as auxiliary nurses could not even tie a bandage, had no skills, and lost their use value, and their hearts were full of inferiority. The health soldiers risked their lives to dig up sweet potatoes, and they were embarrassed to eat them. In the end, it was the Japanese Red Cross nurse who brought them a few pieces and said, "Hey, let's eat!"
The comfort women were so moved that they wept.
After Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945, the surviving comfort women were sent to concentration camps or camps. The comfort women, who were not wearing military uniforms, were sent to prisoner camps after surrendering. At that time, the Allied soldiers would not bully or disdain them, but the captured Japanese officers refused to be held in the same camp as the comfort women and protested to the Allied administrators. After the comfort women paid their youthful bodies and blood and tears for Japan and for the Japanese officers and soldiers, in the end, it was these Japanese soldiers who had ravaged them who despised them!
In a small town called Taitun in southwestern Yunnan, more than 30 comfort women, who were survivors of the 300, were sent to a shelter by the local military. When they were captured on the Japanese position, some of them were shaved heads, wearing tattered uniforms, covered in dirt and bones, some were wounded, and some were struggling to breathe from illness.
Due to the war, the shelter for Japanese soldiers and comfort women was very simple, and dozens of Japanese soldiers were crammed into a hut, and the wounds of the wounded soldiers emitted a rancid smell. The comfort women could only struggle in this environment.
Many of the comfort women contracted venereal diseases. But the more serious disease is tuberculosis. After the comfort women fell ill, they had a low-grade fever and cough every day, but there was no medicine to treat it.
In the temporary shelter in Xinxiang, Henan Province, more than 10 comfort women, some of whom have tuberculosis, and one of them has begun to cough up blood. The local garrison health team stationed in Xinxiang had no medicine to treat them, so they could only give them some aspirin and cough medicine. The comfort woman, who was in the advanced stage of her illness, could only curl up and lie in the corner waiting to die.
In the dead of night, her mournful cries often woke up the other comfort women.
But the comfort women had nothing to do but say a few words of comfort. Within a few days, the comfort woman died in the shelter. Before dying, she asked the other comfort women to take out a set of half-used clean clothes from their suitcases and said, "Please help me change them." After saying that, he was idle.
On the streets of Zhangjiakou City, bayonets, guns, bullets, and puppet military and police costumes were thrown everywhere. The Japanese expatriates who had not had time to evacuate asked for refuge in the homes of ordinary Chinese people. Many comfort women knelt on the side of the street, kowtowed to Chinese men passing by, and wailed in stiff Chinese:
"My wife's work, my sister's work. ”
These desperate comfort women had to rely on their bodies to survive.
In Wuhan, when the Japanese army surrendered, many comfort women and Japanese women were cornered. So some underworld figures took them in, put them in sacks every day, put them in a sealed black room, and then sell tickets outside the door, each person spent two yuan each time to buy tickets, go in to "touch the bag", only allowed to touch, not allowed to look, touch the right, then carry it outside, and then open the sack to try their luck, the old ugly and handsome, each according to the destiny of heaven. Some Chinese touched good comfort women, some brought them back to be wives, and some brought them back to be daughters-in-law; and some vicious Chinese touched them, took them back, slept for two days, and then resold them to others.
After the repatriation order was issued, Japanese comfort women in various parts of the northeast concealed their history as military prostitutes and tried to find Chinese husbands or live with Chinese. The conditions for them to marry are extremely low, and many young and beautiful Japanese comfort women and Korean comfort women are married to men who are more than ten years older than themselves, or even in their twenties. Some of the comfort women who were not in good shape or were a little older even had to marry people with disabilities. Some comfort women were more fortunate to marry Chinese from the mainland who went to the northeast to run business or work, and returned to their hometowns with them to live and work in peace and contentment. Others fell into the hands of traffickers and were taken to small towns or villages to force them to continue into prostitution or resold to older men.
There were also Japanese comfort women in various places who defected to or married Chinese before Japan surrendered during the rout of the Japanese army, but more often after Japan's surrender.
The repatriation of Japanese prisoners of war took place in the autumn of 1946, when many Japanese comfort women felt the preciousness of a stable life and gained the dignity of being human beings after marrying Chinese, and some even unexpectedly conceived children.
However, the repatriation department at that time instituted a policy that all Japanese in China, whether expatriates or prisoners of war, should be repatriated to Japan. Japanese women who cohabit or marry Chinese after Japan's surrender are to be repatriated and are not allowed to hide them; those who cohabit or marry Chinese before surrender, especially those who have children, will not be repatriated for the time being if they voluntarily obtain the approval of the local government. Subsequently, it was stipulated that any Japanese woman who marries a Chinese and wants to avoid detention may apply for naturalization as a Chinese citizen;
As a result of this order, many foreign men and women have just become dependents and have become farewells. It is undoubtedly another blow to the comfort women, who have been tortured and hit, and it is undoubtedly a blow to the head!
At that time, neither Korean nor Japanese comfort women were reluctant to return to China. They know that it is difficult to survive in their country.
In Burma, when the Japanese army was besieged and annihilated, some Japanese troops sneaked into the deep mountains and old forests and lived by eating wild fruits, wild vegetables and wild animals. Among these defeated Japanese troops, there were still many comfort women. These men and women, who look like men and beasts, are only fighting for survival, completely cut off from the outside world, completely unaware of the Emperor's edict to surrender on 15 August, and still dreaming of their foolish dreams of "Great East Asian Jihad" and "loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor."
By August 22, 1945, this group of comfort women who had fled in the mountains and forests came to the forest starvingly, but they were discovered by the British army and sent to a shelter. In the shelter, several Indian soldiers looked at the comfort women curiously, wondering what kind of "military class" they belonged to.
It was not until the summer of 1947 that the comfort women in custody received a certificate of repatriation to Japan. So, the Japanese comfort women who were sheltered took the savings they had exchanged for their bodies for many years and returned to Japan by boat and went ashore from Hiroshima. When they set foot on Japanese soil, the comfort women found that the wartime banknotes had been invalidated, and the little savings they had accumulated over the years had become a pile of waste paper.
Most of the comfort women, both in North Korea and Japan, lived alone after returning home, and they themselves were afraid to recall the past. Some of the comfort women later married, but most of their family lives were unhappy, and some even separated shortly after marriage.
Many comfort women of Chinese, Burmese or other nationalities have mostly remained silent about this shameful past, thus helping the Japanese government to conceal the truth about the comfort women.
At the end of 1945, the newly established Democratic People's Republic of Korea sent people to China to pick up the Korean comfort women. Before leaving, the Korean and Japanese comfort women hugged goodbye and burst into tears. These deceived and forcibly recruited North Korean women finally look forward to the day when they return to China, but their feelings are complicated, and the history of being ravaged by the Japanese army as comfort women will forever be imprinted on their bodies and minds, and although they have returned to their hometowns, the shame will never be erased. In their hearts, they will always feel inferior and inferior.
Many comfort women, especially North Korean comfort women, committed suicide when they returned to their hometowns. They were able to endure the ravages of the Japanese army because there was still hope for life. But they cannot afford the contempt of their relatives and compatriots, which destroys their hopes of survival.
Today's Japan is free from the devastation of war. Tokyo is especially bustling. However, the cigarettes in the "Yasukuni Shrine" in Tokyo still seem to be filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke during World War II.
Among the dead in the Yasukuni Shrine are enshrined more than 57,000 Japanese women, most of whom were female soldiers or field service personnel who died in World War II. But Japan's comfort women were not among them. The life and death of the comfort women are a shame for the Yamato nation, but the comfort women have been trampled on by thousands of Japanese officers and soldiers, and in the trampling, the peace of the soldiers necessary for the battlefield has been restored.
How many Japanese comfort women died in World War II, and how many are still alive, is a mystery to the Japanese government.
After World War II, the comfort women broke up and lived independently. Who wants to marry a woman who has been ravaged by thousands of Japanese soldiers? They have no love, no family, no joy, no warmth, and they never interact with each other. They are afraid that when they meet, they will bring back nightmarish memories.
After the defeat of the war, Japanese society was in a state of chaos and inflation, and the comfort women, who would only sell their bodies, fell into an extremely difficult situation. At that time, in order to make a living, many women from good families had to sell their bodies to foreign occupation forces. But when the comfort women returned home, they all vowed to keep their bodies clean. At that time, they would only have to sell their flesh again to eat white rice and fish. But the comfort women would rather suffer than sell their bodies to the United Nations forces.
Wing A, with 3,500 soldiers, was accompanied by 16 comfort women, who were from some villages in Kitakyushu Jiengagawa. They knew that their defiled bodies would never return to their homeland. Most of them sold their flesh to help their families. Now, even if they are free, they cannot return home. This has become an unwritten law! So they each worked as servants in restaurants or inns in Zhiyuan Hechuan, gritting their teeth and working hard for the sun and the moon, but never betraying their flesh again.
A year later, the officers and men of Wing A returned to Japan from prisoner of war camps in Taiwan. When their lives suddenly fell behind, they gathered the comfort women who could be concentrated and entertained them. This assembly has become an annual meeting.
It is said that the painful experience of the Japanese comfort women accompanying the army will arouse sympathy for everyone. Unexpectedly, the Japanese rulers after the war were also interested in setting up comfort women. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (Police) and the Ministry of Finance jointly established the "Special Comfort Facilities Association 97 Association", abbreviated as "AA". The purpose of the association is to provide "comfort women" to the United Nations forces that are fully stationed in Japan, so as to prevent the United Nations forces from insulting Japanese women at will. In short: the "RAA" is the "comfort women" provided by the Japanese government to the United Nations forces. They secretly pleaded with the United Nations forces: "Please take these women and stop violating other Japanese women." "It was Japan's post-war Ministry of Internal Affairs who did this.
The "RAA" recruited women, starting with 20,000 and later reaching 50,000. It's all Japanese women. The cost of recruiting women and facilities is estimated at $50 million. The money was raised by the Ministry of Finance, and about 33 million yuan was spent in the form of financing funds from the funds for promoting and rewarding industry. At that time, 30 million yen was equivalent to more than 50 billion yen today. I also heard that the then Comptroller General Ikeda Yuto (later Prime Minister) said, "If this money can protect the chastity of Japanese women, it will be enough." ”
The money was received by restaurants that had been closed during the war, and the rooms inside were curtained and bedding was laid out as "comfort stations". The first Allied soldiers landed on August 30, and on August 28, the comfort women had been hastily summoned to the comfort station in front of Miyagi. All of this was planned and implemented quickly by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Most of the women who were summoned to comfort stations were women who had lost their homes due to the war.
The Confederate Army later issued an order prohibiting soldiers and officers from going to "R A A" because a chaplain sent the photo to the country after a chaplain photographed the ugly appearance of the soldiers lining up in front of the "R A A" room, shouting "hurry".
On March 10, 1946, under pressure from the General Headquarters of the United Nations Forces, the "RAA" was disbanded. The state is not responsible for the 50,000 or so comfort women, just as the military did in World War II. Drafted women were cornered, and some gave up on themselves and turned to the profession of prostitutes.
According to the comfort women who returned from World War II, "As far as I know, none of the original comfort women participated in the RAA. They know that when they are used, they will be discarded like garbage. When the big guys praise you, it's because you're useful to them. The lessons of the past have been taken to heart, grit your teeth, and do business seriously. When the big guys say that it is for the country, you must think seriously and don't be fooled. The same is true now. ”
When the Japanese army was about to collapse, the Japanese elite shouted the slogan "100 million jade pieces", but no one really thought about "100 million jade pieces". It was the women of Japan, the comfort women, who became the offerings of the Japanese ruling class to the Japanese army during the war, and also became the offerings of the Japanese ruling class to the United Nations forces after the war!
Whoop, the real last bearer of 100 million jade pieces!
Whoops, the souls of thousands of comfort women who have lived and died!