In the first list of anti-Japanese heroes released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, there were 8 foreigners. One of them has a very special identity, his name is Hideo Miyagawa, a Japanese national, who joined the army in 1931 and became an invading Japanese army. Captured by the Eighth Route Army in July 1941, after education, he joined the Communist Party and became a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, writing propaganda materials that were widely disseminated among Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese army offered a high-priced reward to arrest him. Two months before Japan's surrender, Hideo Miyagawa was surrounded by Japanese troops while on a mission, and he resolutely raised his gun to avoid being captured, at the age of 27.
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September 30, 2014 is the first national martyrs' memorial day in China. In the first list of heroic martyrs of the Anti-Japanese Resistance published by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, there were 8 foreigners, including the only Japanese martyr in the Eighth Route Army, Hideo Miyagawa, who was the only Japanese who heroically sacrificed his life for the cause of the Chinese People's War of Resistance as an anti-war person.
The icon refers to Hideo Miyagawa, the only photo he left behind in China
Hideo Miyagawa, formerly known as Keiyoshi Miyagawa, was born in 1918 to a poor family in Misaka,Higashi-Yatsuyo-gun, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. After the outbreak of the all-out war of aggression against China, Japan recruited a large number of young and middle-aged people into the army at home. In 1939, at the age of 21, Hideo Miyagawa enlisted in the army as a soldier in the Japanese 32nd Division.
When Japanese soldiers enlist in the army on their own soil, they must undergo harsh enlistment training and the "brainwashing" of long-term militarist ideas, and Miyagawa Hideo is naturally no exception, he, like countless fanatical Japanese youth, is eager to go to the battlefield and "make meritorious achievements" by invading the territory of other countries. Most of the officers and men of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army, where he belonged, were from Yamanashi Prefecture in the northeast of Japan, and the local people were fierce and fierce, and they were deeply influenced by militaristic ideas, so this unit became the elite of the Japanese army and was soon sent to the Chinese battlefield.
In the Second World War, the Japanese army was known for its ferocity, these invaders were not only cruel to the enemy, but also never soft on their own people, and often stubbornly resisted to the end in battle, killing wounded comrades and then committing suicide, so that all of them were "jade fragmented" and rarely surrendered voluntarily. We often say that the Japanese spirit of "Bushido" is the cause of this phenomenon, but in fact, in order to strengthen militarist education, the Japanese army also controlled the thinking of soldiers through the "Military Edicts" and "Battle Front Training". As a Japanese soldier, Hideo Miyagawa, who was deeply influenced by militarist ideas, what made him embark on the road of fighting fascism?
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On July 29, 1941, during the Battle of Shuangniushan, the Eighth Route Army captured two Japanese prisoners, one of whom died of wounds and the other was Hideo Miyagawa. At first, his thinking was still very stubborn, clamoring for "martyrdom" for His Majesty the Emperor and never being a prisoner of Chinese. He acted maniacally when he heard the Eighth Route Army talking contemptuously about the Japanese emperor.
Japanese Soldier of the Eighth Route Army, Kobayashi Hirosumi
In the face of such a stubborn Japanese soldier, the enemy workers of the Eighth Route Army did not give up, after all, he was still very young, and a childish face showed that he still had hope for transformation. After the reasoning and sympathy of the enemy workers of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the education of the "anti-war awakening alliance branch" in the southwest region of Lu, Miyagawa Hideo's thinking has undergone tremendous changes, and he began to reflect on himself, recalling that he had personally seen all kinds of atrocities committed by the Japanese army against the Chinese in China, and he doubted that his real mission of coming to China as a soldier was not to "make meritorious contributions" to the country, but to nakedly invade and plunder and kill. After ideological transformation, Miyagawa Finally made up his mind that he would never become a tool for the Japanese army to invade China, and his determination to oppose the war became stronger and stronger, and then decided to work with the Chinese resistance to fight the Japanese army.
At that time, there were not a few Japanese prisoners of war who were educated like Hideo Miyagawa. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers were educated through reform and finally chose to join the anti-war camp of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. In the summer of 1940, the Japanese soldier Kobayashi Hirosumi was captured by the East China Sea Brigade of the Jiaodong Detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, and at first, he was very stubborn and bent on "martyrdom" for His Majesty the Emperor, for which he committed suicide twice, but was discovered by the Eighth Route Army in time. Later, inspired by the Eighth Route Army's policy of preferential treatment of prisoners and the painstaking education of the enemy's engineering personnel, Kobayashi Hiroshi voluntarily joined the Eighth Route Army, and also gloriously joined the Communist Party, actively carried out anti-war propaganda work, and became the head of the coastal branch of the Anti-War League.
Japanese Soldier of the Eighth Route Army, Tsuyoshi Yokokawa
After seeing that the Japanese army had committed various atrocious crimes in China, Yokokawa Tsuyoshi, a soldier of the 210th Company of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army invading China, developed an anti-war mentality and fled away from the unit. After being discovered by the Eighth Route Army, to his surprise, the Eighth Route Army was very tolerant of him and even made him a bowl of egg noodles the next day. Yokokawa slowly lowered his guard, convinced that "the Eighth Route Army will not kill me, it is a good man." Yokokawa then went to the rear of the Shandong Military District and was reformed along with other surrendered Japanese soldiers. Through his studies, Yokokawa understood the essence of Japan's war of aggression against China and made up his mind to join the anti-Japanese and anti-war movement. Soon, Yokokawa chose to join the Eighth Route Army and became a glorious soldier of the Eighth Route Army.
There are many more such examples. It can be seen that although the Japanese soldiers are stubborn, this is all the fascist propaganda they have been exposed to every day in the past, which has been caused by long-term "brainwashing", and what they see is extremely one-sided, and they actually have hidden doubts in their hearts.
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In 1941, after ideological education and reform, Hideo Miyagawa joined the Eighth Route Army and joined the Communist Party of China, in order to avoid persecution of his family, he changed his original name to Hideo Miyagawa, and was subsequently sent to Yan'an to receive education and work in the Japanese Anti-War Alliance in China. The Japanese government, which issued a communiqué at the same time claiming that Hideo Miyagawa was killed in battle, hastily sent a death notice to the family of Hideo Miyagawa, who was devastated by the loss of him.
In 1943, the 25-year-old Hideo Miyagawa was sent to Changqing County, Shandong Province, to engage in anti-war work, under the "Jinpu Railway to japanese army task force", his task was to compile propaganda materials for the Japanese army and disintegrate the Japanese army.
Although Miyagawa Hideo was short in stature and weak in temperament, his personality was quite resolute, and he came from a toiling class, and he became more and more identified with the ideas of the Communist Party of China and the Eighth Route Army, and his work became more and more active.
As a former Japanese soldier, Hideo Miyagawa had a very good grasp of the psychology of the Japanese army, always able to cut through the psychological pain of the enemy. According to the recollections of Li Luo, then deputy captain of the enemy engineering team of the First Military Sub-district of the Jiluyu Military Region, a close comrade-in-arms who once fought alongside Hideo Miyagawa, Hideo Miyagawa's main task was to compile propaganda materials for the disintegration of the Japanese army. In the past, in the Japanese army, the ranks of the upper and lower levels were strict, and the bad habit of officers and veterans scolding new recruits Wase ohmiya Miyagawa had a deep memory, for which he elaborately produced a leaflet entitled "No Scolding Soldiers", issued propaganda slogans such as "No Slaps to Soldiers" and "Soldiers Are Not Cows and Horses", accompanied by exquisite illustrations, written in Japanese and widely distributed, which made Japanese soldiers feel very kind; when the traditional festivals of the Japanese Army arrived, he made a leaflet entitled "The old and young at home hope you will go back" and warned the Japanese soldiers as he was once an aggressor. This is an unjust war, a war of aggression waged by Japanese imperialism against other countries, and the Japanese soldiers must suddenly wake up and realize that they cannot be used by Japanese imperialism all the time, lay down their weapons, and their relatives in their hometown are waiting for you to return.
But for those Japanese soldiers who were deeply influenced by the spirit of Bushido and poisoned by militaristic ideas, could the method of simply shouting and distributing anti-war propaganda films have a role in reforming? Here I would like to give an example: There is a captain in the Japanese garrison at Jinan Wande Station named Handa, who, after receiving the propaganda materials of the Anti-War Alliance, risked being punished, not only carefully read the contents, but also hid these propaganda materials around him, often showed them to others, and was detained and closed after being discovered. On the day of the Cherry Blossom Festival in 1944, Handa escaped from confinement and surrendered to the Eighth Route Army enemy team with propaganda materials printed by the Anti-War Alliance. The powerful political offensive of the enemy workers caused panic in the Japanese army, and while launching the attack on the enemy workers, they offered a high-priced reward for the capture of Hideo Miyagawa.
Hideo Miyagawa worked tirelessly for the cause of China's national liberation, heroically and decisively in the struggle against the enemy. Once, when he was launching a political offensive against the enemy along the Jinpu Railway, the Japanese army was in full swing, the situation was very critical, and his comrades advised him to withdraw quickly, but with a strong sense of responsibility, he not only completed the task excellently, but also safely escaped from the enemy's encirclement. In life, Miyagawa Hideo is very simple, his clothes are torn and he sews themselves, and the living allowance paid to him by his superiors is taken out to buy vegetables for everyone to improve food. Hideo Miyagawa worked side by side with chinese comrades to form a deep friendship of war, once, With him for a long time Li Luo, who had a high fever and fell into a coma, Miyagawa Hideo directly carried him, over the mountains to find the doctor, and later the doctor did not find, he used the soil method to reduce the fever for Li Luo. Politically, Hideo Miyagawa never made mistakes, firmly followed the Communist Party, and wholeheartedly fought for the cause of China's national liberation.
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At dawn on June 7, 1945, Hideo Miyagawa and LiLov moved to Guanzhuang Village in Bande Town, where they were extremely tired due to their previous overload of work, and they slept until dawn after secretly entering the village. Unexpectedly, on this day, a large number of Japanese troops, led by traitors, entered the village and surrounded the village. At the critical moment, the warriors quickly separated and hid.
In order not to expose the other comrades-in-arms, Hideo Miyagawa, who had been hidden in the wheat stack, suddenly rushed out, and after firing several shots at the Japanese army and the traitors, he knew that he had no hope of escaping from danger and did not want to be captured by the Japanese army again, resolutely left the last bullet to himself, raised his gun and committed suicide, when he died, he was only 27 years old.
The Japanese army found a badge in the inner pocket of Miyagawa Hideo's clothes, which was his name, which made him know that he was Miyagawa Hideo, who had been arrested by the Japanese army for a high-priced reward. Subsequently, the body of Hideo Miyagawa was buried by the Japanese at Bando Station.
After Miyagawa Hideo's death, his comrades were extremely saddened and decided to take back his body. On the night of June 21, when heavy rain poured down, several dark figures appeared at the well-guarded Bando Station of the Japanese army, and everyone dug up the body of Hideo Miyagawa by hand and quickly transferred it to other places. The next day, comrades-in-arms held a burial ceremony in Sunjiatu Village, and all walks of life in the Jilu-Yu Border Region also held a memorial service for Hideo Miyagawa, deeply remembering this "Japanese Eighth Road". The body of Hideo Miyagawa was buried in the Dafengshan Martyrs' Cemetery in Sunjiatu Village, and in 1983, it was moved to the Changqing County Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery and commemorated by a monument.
Kobayashi Hirosumi, a veteran soldier of the Japanese Eighth Route Army, sprinkled clear water from Mount Fuji in Japan on the tomb of Hideo Miyagawa
Just two months after The death of Hideo Miyagawa, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japan ended, and the Chinese people won a great victory. Hideo Miyagawa, on the other hand, never saw the moment of victory again, and only two months after the victory of the War of Resistance, Hideo Miyagawa sacrificed himself on the Chinese soil for which he fought.
Hideo Miyagawa, who sacrificed his life for the cause of China's national liberation, was buried in Changqing County, where he had worked for a long time, and as a close comrade-in-arms who worked side by side in that year, Li Luolov persevered in searching for Hideo Miyagawa's family for a long time after liberation, hoping to make the souls of the martyrs return to their hometown. Later, with the help of Hideo Miyagawa, a Japanese veteran who was also from the Japanese army and received anti-war education in Yan'an with Hideo Miyagawa, and joined the Eighth Route Army, Kobayashi Hirosumi, he finally contacted Miyagawa Hideo's family.
In April 2009, LiLov's daughter Sun Yanming, accompanied by Hideo Miyagawa's niece Chiba Yukiyuki, came to hideo Miyagawa's hometown in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, and scattered this treasure on the land of his hometown, an anti-Japanese martyr who sacrificed his life for the cause of National Liberation for China, and finally returned home.