"I was once a devil, a full-fledged devil, more inhuman than a drunken boy, and in order to be born again as a human being, I must face fault!"
This passage comes from the mouth of the 94-year-old Japanese veteran Fujimoto Yasuma, a humble old man who has been repenting for his sins, so what happened to him?
In 1940, at the age of 14, At the age of 14, Yashima Fujimoto entered Okuno Island, known as the "Poison Gas Island", as a scout, and his five years on the island were also the most terrifying five years of his life.
In 1929, the Imperial Japanese Ministry of War commissioned the Japanese Army Engineer Corps to build a large facility on ŌkunoShima And named it the Tadakai Ordnance Manufacturing Plant of the Second Army In Tokyo. Since then, no boats have been allowed near the island. Fujimoto Ama originally thought that the island was just some military factory, but when he arrived on the island, the pungent smell of chemical medicine came to his nose, and his intuition told him that there must be some secret hidden here.
On the second day of entering the island, Anma Fujimoto was asked to undergo chemistry courses and hands-on training, and it was only then that he confirmed that it was an island specializing in toxic gases. After the training session, Anma Fujimoto was assigned to the "Louis Agent" manufacturing office, where he was responsible for cooperating with the commander in the manufacture of poison gas.
"Lewisite" is an organic arsenic compound, containing highly toxic, after contact will make the skin ulcerate, only 30 minutes will appear symptoms, during the Second World War, the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany and other countries have produced this gas. On Ōkuno Island at that time, there were more than 6,000 pawns such as Fujimoto Yasuma. Many people have been killed due to accidental exposure to poison gas, and the bodies are not allowed to leave the island and will be disposed of incinerated.
During his time at Ohkuno Island, Anma Fujimoto became familiar with the various principles of poison gas, and he almost died once. On that occasion, he accidentally spilled a little "Louis's agent", and his face was saved because he was wearing a gas mask, but his unprotected neck quickly blistered because of the drug. Fortunately, someone helped him disinfect urgently, or he would soon die in pain. This accident caused him to heal for more than two months. I have to say, he's a lucky guy.
The poison gas bombs developed by Ohkunojima were transported to various battlefields, and Fujimoto Yasuma knew that countless enemy troops would die in the poison gas, and he was not sad about it, but believed that all weapons that would help the Empire of Japan to win the war should be used on the battlefield, no matter what.
After World War II, Anma Fujimoto returned to his devastated hometown, where people were not friendly to him, and even his relatives were reluctant to approach him. This was a common phenomenon in post-war Japan, and people do not know why, from the strong support and encouragement of soldiers in wartime to the disgust and scorn after the war. Many soldiers who returned to Japan were even turned away by their families and turned into tramps.
In later years, Anma Fujimoto suffered from bronchitis, and his skin often suffered from itching, which he believed was a sequelae of "gas poisoning", but he was still lucky, and many of his comrades who served with him on the island died of various cancers after returning to their homeland. Not only was he physically tortured, but he was also mentally tormented, and after watching documentaries made by Americans, he realized what he had done, so he often went to the monasteries to pray for the victims.
In 1994, he decided to emulate another Japanese anti-war veteran, Higashi Shiro, by making public what he had experienced on the island and what he had seen and heard, which he called "a confession of the devil."
According to post-war statistics, the total amount of poison produced by the Military Drug Factory on Ohano Island reached more than 6,000 tons in the 16 years since its opening, and until the end of the Pacific War in September 1945, there were still 3270 tons of poison gas left on the island. This also makes the soil within 5 meters of Ohkuno Island still contain a high concentration of toxic arsenides.
Today's Ohkuno Island has become the habitat of hares, and when eight hares were left on the island, now the island is full of hares, and Ohkuno Island has been renamed "Rabbit Island". Standing on a high place, with a bird's eye view of the beautiful and vast scenery, I wonder if the "Fujimoto Yasuma" who used to be the executioner of the poison gas factory are now safe?