Rozov once said: "The warm current of human goodness that touches the heart can heal the wounds of the heart and the body." "There is such an old Japanese man who came to China to fight since the war and chaos years, and the cruelty of the war and the atrocities of the Japanese army deeply affected him, so he pretended to be a refugee and escaped from the military camp and began a career of saving people and crossing himself for more than forty years... He was Hiroshi Yamazaki, the last Japanese veteran in China.
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War seems to mean blood and iron. --Kun Ti Liang
Hiroshi Yamazaki was born in November 1908 to a family of medical practitioners in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. In 1937, he came to China with Japanese troops to participate in the war. Six months later, Hiroshi Yamazaki, who was accompanying the military doctor, could not bear the brutality of the Japanese in China, so he fled the army and prepared to return to his hometown in Japan. In Yamazaki's memory, the eastern side of the Shandong Peninsula is the closest place to Japan, so he hopes to return to his hometown by taking a boat in Sakae Castle.
And the truth is just as Cen Shan said: When the Weishui river flows east, when it reaches Lizhou, with two lines of tears, it is sent to the old garden. Perennial flames, strife and war make it difficult for Yamazaki to walk, he came to Jinan by pretending to be a refugee begging all the way, found that his hometown was already a castle in the air, the kind and simple people of Jinan gave him food and water to drink, over time, he developed a deep affection for the city.
Yamazaki wanted to settle in Jinan, so he took a job with the Japanese expatriates in Jinan and opened a small clinic with superb medical skills to treat the poor in China. Yamazaki's medicine is good and the price is low, and soon his reputation spread in Jinan, many people take their children to see a doctor, and he has also become a well-known pediatric doctor.
Yamazaki Hiroshi did not let the iron-blooded war blind his pure heart and conscience, he knew that right and wrong could distinguish between good and evil, and in the following days he always adhered to the principle of "atonement" for Chinese, which was more than seventy years.
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One of the benefits of good deeds is that the human soul is made noble and it is made to do better deeds. - Rousseau
More than seventy years ago, Yamazaki had his own private clinic in Jinan, which was later transformed into a joint clinic after socialist transformation. Over the years, Hiroshi Yamazaki has worked hard to learn Chinese in order to better communicate with patients. Neighbors said that he looked like an ordinary Chinese old man, with a thick Jinan accent and a pair of black cloth shoes, and it was impossible to see that he was Japanese.
As early as when Yamazaki Hiroshi opened a private clinic, he did not charge a penny for many poor people to see a doctor, and thus accumulated a good reputation, although his life was often "unable to open the pot", but he silently contributed to society without complaint or regret. Soon after the private clinic was transformed, Yamazaki Hiroshi became a doctor at the Jinan Health Center, he still dutifully served the people, after entering the hospital for many years his salary has been 83.6 yuan, without any change, every time he encounters the opportunity to increase wages, Yamazaki Hiroshi will give this opportunity to others first.
Hiroshi Yamazaki is a low-key person, and when he sees people on a normal day, he just looks down and smiles slightly, and does not communicate too much. He doesn't visit the door, doesn't talk to his family, locks himself in his room when he's homesick, looks through Japanese materials, and hums Japanese songs.
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Sincerity is the highest virtue in life. - Chaucer
In September 1972, China and Japan signed a joint declaration to establish diplomatic relations, and Yamazaki was finally able to return to China to visit his family. He wrote a letter to his brother who was far away in Okayama, Japan, and with the help of the relevant departments in China and Japan, he decided to return to China to see. In the forty years from 1937 to 1979, Yamazaki Hiroshi was not heard from, his family in Japan thought that he had died in the war, the spiritual seat had been placed for decades, and now he heard that Yamazaki Hiroshi was still alive and had to return to China, immediately removed the spiritual seat, found him a doctor job of 300,000 yen a month, and bought him a property.
Hiroshi Yamazaki's parents died young, and his brother hoped he would stay in Japan to spend his old age with them. At this time, Japan was an economic power in Asia, and the conditions in Yamazaki's family were relatively favorable, but he gave up the opportunity to stay in Japan and returned to China, back to the place where he warmed and helped him during the war.
In China, although he has no real blood relatives, he has neighbors who care about him enthusiastically, kind people who speak for him in times of turmoil, wives and daughters who accompany him in times of difficulty... After six months of family leave, he only stayed for three months before returning to China. He brought only three things back to Jinan: a fourteen-inch color TV for his wife and children, an electrocardiogram for the hospital, and a Japanese book donated to the Science and Technology Museum.
After the reform and opening up, Yamazaki Hiroshi became a non-governmental ambassador to promote Sino-Japanese friendly exchanges, and promoted the conclusion of Jinan and Kasakayama City as sister cities. Indeed, he was originally a Japanese deserter, and later became a Chinese citizen, practicing medicine in China to save people, not his identity determines what kind of person he is, it is his behavior that determines his character.
According to media reports, more and more people know about this Japanese doctor, in the six months of his military service, Yamazaki Hiroshi did not kill a single person, nor did he fire a bullet, his essence hates death and war, he is a kind and upright doctor who saves people.
Man is good, and all good is insufficient. --Yang Wanli
Yamazaki once told the media: "Japan has committed deep sins against China, and I do my best to do more good deeds for Chinese and apologize to them." "
He is good at treating three major diseases of diarrhea, fever and cough in children, and the adults who come to him spend two cents on travel expenses, one dime and five medicines, and his family does not need money to see a doctor, and sometimes he will manage meals. The ups and downs of the wind and rain, the hardships of life, did not wash away the innocence and kindness in his heart, for a doctor like him, saving people is the greatest happiness in this life.
In the millennium, Hiroshi Yamazaki, who was in his nineties, still insisted on sitting in the clinic, and the clinic let him see ten people a day, but he didn't want to delay other people's time, so he watched more than thirty people a day. In addition to seeing a doctor, the old man also teaches Japanese, the director of the clinic Liu Motong must learn Japanese when he is promoted to a professional title, yamazaki Hiroshi, who has just met, is eager to help him, and has not yet accepted the gift given by Liu, the old man said: We are gentlemen's friendship as light as water. Before the old man taught Japanese lessons to college students in Shandong for half a year, he also did not receive anything.
In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Yamazaki donated 3,000 yuan, and then donated another 1,000 yuan under the organization of the street office. In 2009, at the age of 102, he received the Japanese Foreign Minister's Commendation Award and the Japanese Prime Minister's Minister Award from the Japanese Consulate. Hiroshi Yamazaki receives a 10,000 yuan grant from the Japanese government every year, and he does not tell anyone, but silently donates it to the poor in need.
On December 1, 2010, Yamazaki died of illness, and on his deathbed, he still chanted "Atonement for sins, serve the people", and there were two family mottos in his clinic: "Serving the people wholeheartedly is the highest virtue" and "The moon has light, people have feelings".
In 103 years, a century of leaps and bounds, Yamazaki Hiroshi used his life to show us the sincerity, justice, morality of a man of character... The avenue has no door, kindness has a door, he is a true gentleman. As Scott said, wherever the noble go, there is always a defender of mitigation, and that is conscience.
Text/Yu Xin