To be honest, my first reaction when I saw this article was that it was too fresh. I have lived for more than 30 years. I heard for the first time that some Japanese volunteered to join the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. The Eighth Route Army and the Japanese devils are incompatible. How did the devil become the Eighth Route Army? What an incredible thing!
I think in the impression of almost all China people, during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the Japanese invaders were completely brainwashed. Otherwise, how could they leave their homes, travel long distances to a strange country, and do some terrible things in other people's homes just because of a few phone calls from the emperor?
In movies and novels, whenever it is mentioned that Japanese soldiers are basically captured and commit suicide, it is difficult to make them prisoners. How could they voluntarily surrender or even persuade their compatriots to lay down their butcher knives and become Buddhists with China soldiers?
However, after reading this article, I am still willing to believe that although most Japanese soldiers have been instilled with the concepts of "fighting for the emperor" and "glory of Greater East Asia", they have provided high-sounding reasons for their aggression of burning, killing and looting. But it is undeniable that there will still be some Japanese with firm conscience, who are also cultivated by Confucianism, and at least the right and wrong are still very clear.
Just imagine, so many Japanese soldiers have come to China to participate in the war. Will everyone really be willing? Even if you really go to war voluntarily, you will find that there is still a big gap between the actual situation and the imagination when you arrive in China. People with conscience will still realize this gap.
In addition, the captive policy of the * * * production party army also played a key role. The crimes committed by Japanese soldiers in China make them feel that if they fall into the hands of China soldiers, they will certainly come to no good end.
On the contrary, the prisoner policy promulgated by the Eighth Route Army at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War was quite friendly to them: not only did they not kill them, but they also gave preferential treatment to the prisoners, and they did not take their belongings to heal the wounded soldiers and put them back if possible; Those who are willing to continue to serve will get proper jobs.
These policies were not written on paper, but actually implemented seriously, which not only moved the Japanese prisoners emotionally, but also changed their minds after spending a long time with the Eighth Route Army.
These defected Japanese stayed in the China army to give full play to their specialties, taught the Eighth Route Army to use advanced weapons, and even indirectly helped the aviation school to train a number of outstanding China pilots. There is also the most convincing anti-war propaganda by using their Japanese identity.
I still remember watching flowers of war, when thirteen prostitutes saved female students, I naively imagined that even if one or two Japanese people had a conscience, it would be good to jump out and save a China.
At that time, I didn't expect that there would really be such a group of Japanese whose conscience was still alive, which refreshed my understanding of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression history again.