This is a history of Japanese taboos. After watching this film, I wrote this article with mixed feelings.

"For in-depth research on the War of Resistance, it is necessary to speak more through various personal and material evidence such as archives, materials, facts, and testimony from the parties."

The five-episode documentary "Labor Under the Bayonet" planned with this theme will restore that period of history that is not generally known through the video records of the last group of living survivors of forced labor to Japan. .

November 1942, Hideki Tojo The cabinet passed the "Resolution on Moving Chinese into the Mainland of Japan."

Experimental input in 1943.

was officially imported in 1944. By 1945, Japan had taken 41,758 laborers from Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places in China, and they were escorted to Japan in 169 batches.

There are prisoners of war here, but most of them are young and middle-aged men who were lured and taken by the Japanese army in China, many of whom are not yet 20 years old.

There are more than 40,000 people, among them nearly 4,000 people were buried in the sea under the conditions of poor environment and shortage of food and water. After that, their bodies were tied up with iron by the Japanese and sunk. The sea.

and the laborers who arrived in Japan were subjected to inhumane slavery and abuse and economic squeeze by the Japanese side. They were assigned to 135 operating sites in 35 Japanese companies, under bayonet and whip every day. Forced labor.

In the end, more than 7,000 prisoners of war laborers died in Dongying.

"This monstrous crime will one day be liquidated."

More than 40,000 Chinese laborers who were taken captive to Japan,Their tragic encounters and struggles in the enemy's country were not the main battlefield of the War of Resistance against Japan, but they were also a chapter in the history of the War of Resistance against Japan that cannot be ignored, and part of the World Anti-Fascist War.

We have to be familiar with this history, and keep going back to the past, reflecting, and then being strong.

This film is divided into five episodes according to the order and context of historical events, each episode is about 50 minutes: "Rape", "East Crossing", "Riot", "Return", and "Claim".

1.

time the beginning, the Japanese still capable of normal recruitment as a cover to whitewash and deceive.

For example, Zhao Zongren, who was only 14 years old at the time, was deceived in this way.

After that, the Japanese immediately began to encircle and suppress laborers, and called it "encirclement and suppression of rabbits."

Huang Fengtong who lives in Yucheng, Shandong,He was only 12 years old when he was caught "rabbit hunting". His first reaction at the time was: "I am a child, will you still catch me?"

As a result, Huang Fengtong was taken away.

Yan Yucheng, who lives in Qinhuangdao, was only 15 years old that year, and was arrested by the Japanese army according to the list of anti-Japanese salvation councils provided by the puppet army.

On that day, Yan Yucheng was not at home. The security chief and the Japanese came to his house and asked his mother if Yan Yucheng was there?

Yan Yucheng's mother was too honest and would never lie, so she said that he was in the northern factory.

As a result, Yan Yucheng and a dozen villagers were arrested.

Because she is honest and can’t lie, a mother watched as she sent her only son to the tiger’s mouth, life or death is unknown.

Since then, because of self-blame, Yan Yucheng's mother has become insane.

When the number of forced laborers is not enough to fill the huge domestic labor shortage in Japan, prisoners of war have become targets of oppression and expropriation.

When it comes to concentration camps, our first reaction is often "Auschwitz".

In fact, Japan has established more than 20 concentration camps in China, with more than 500,000 detainees, including Shijiazhuang Concentration Camp and Luoyang Xigong Concentration Camp. Among them, the Shijiazhuang concentration camp is the largest and the most severely persecuted.

In the concentration camp, the Chinese prisoners of war led an inhuman life.

I can’t eat half full. In the scorching heat of May and June, there was heavy rain outside the house and heavy rain inside the house. The prisoners of war were sitting in the water.

"The life of the prisoners of war is the hardest in life."

actually,Long before this, the Japanese army had taken a large number of laborers in Northeast my country and sent them to high-risk places such as coal mines for operations.

writer Sasu , his two relatives weren't even able to go to the coal mine and were killed when they didn't get out of Shanhaiguan .

The reason is simple, because they have culture.

If you are educated, you will instigate rebellions and riots, so there is no reason to not be charged, but to kill.

Japan’s total number of laborers in China is far more than 40,000, and far more than the 7 million announced by the National Government, but 15 million.

Such a huge amount of data and such a brutal crime have not received the attention and compensation that they deserve. This is the negligence of our historical research and the negligence of our descendants.

2.

There are more than 40,000 laborers on board the Dong Ferry ship.

They endured inhuman torture,Some died on the way, and some lived in the shadows.

Do you remember the aforementioned Yan Yucheng who was arrested at the age of 15?

, he who survived, often sang the song "Song of Labor" with tears when there was no one, because the lyrics recorded are the darkest moments of his life .

"Last July, we were all troubled here together / We are all poor people / digging for coal in the kiln for nearly 400 days / in the dark cave / working hard everywhere / in there Under the threat of the whip/work with humiliation..."

At that time, he and more than a hundred workers were put on board a ship called "Onomaru". Steamship.

Before boarding the ship, Yan Yucheng quietly picked up a garlic from the ground and hid it in his pocket. This was his sustenance when he missed his hometown.

On that day, Yan Yucheng had a stomachache in was terrible. At this time, the meal delivery came, it was hot soup.

because I can’t stand it anymore,Yan Yucheng drank the soup without thinking about it, but slapped him in the next second.

"I don't know the rules too much."

Under the hunger and cold, Yan Yucheng has never eaten that garlic, because this is the only connection between him and his hometown.

Huang Fengtong is the same. He and other workers spent five days and five nights on the freighter carrying coal. Because of seasickness, the workers vomited and vomited, there was nothing to eat, and they couldn't eat anything. Many people did not survive.

Most of the dead bodies were thrown into the sea. And there were 73 corpses. Because they were too close to the coast of Japan, the corpses would float to the shore. The Japanese side buried the corpses in Xiaguan for fear of causing trouble to the Japanese fathers and villagers.

In this way, 73 lone souls are in a foreign country, looking at their hometown.

The locals call this cemetery the "Missing Cemetery".

It sounds very sad and regretful.

these tragic ancestors,They should have lived an ordinary and happy life, marrying wives and having children, and waiting for death in the world, vulgar and broad-minded.

But in the end they missed this life, and they had to die in pain and despair.

This is by no means a natural disaster, it is a man-made disaster, evil, and sin.

Behind them, there are countless broken families. Who can survive this disaster alone?

The Shimonoseki port is still busy seventy years later. One of the companies that captured the most labor in the past, Mitsubishi Corporation , is still the busiest company in this port.

Beneath their glorious modern and prosperous appearance, and their accumulated success with money, are the corpses and blood of countless Chinese people.

If we realize this,Is it possible to use products produced by related Japanese companies with confidence?

To die is bitter, and to live is bitter.

The workers who arrived in Japan alive and who were unwilling to work in the Japanese copper mine were transported to 135 workers who were never willing to enter the mine. Work in a mercury mine.

These places are high-pollution and high-risk places, and they are often infected with various diseases, such as pneumoconiosis, such as mercury poisoning, so many workers quickly die of cancer after returning home.

Even if you don’t get sick, life is better than death.

Gao Wensheng from Henan, he used to work as a porter in a dock in Japan. Compared to the 86 workers who died in Osaka, he is fortunate.

But those tragic years have never been erased from his heart.

Because of the atrophy of the cerebellum, the language barrier, the high vocal can not speak, but because I went to school, I can write it down.

He knew that the company he was in was called Teng Yongtian Manufacturing Factory.When people asked him what he ate there, he wrote on paper with a pen: "I was hungry when I lived in Osaka and ate weeds on the beach."

see In this scene, who can remain unmoved.

What kind of country is this, what kind of nation, can it be so cruel.

It is a sin for any descendant of Yanhuang and Huang to face such a deep hatred.

After that, Gao Wensheng wrote another sentence: "My name is Gao Wensheng. The Japanese can apologize to us for compensation." Did the Japanese apologize?

No, the right-wing forces tampered with history, refused to pay compensation, refused to admit the crime, and destroyed the "Investigation Book of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs" (recording the process and the exact number of Chinese captives)...

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After the war, Gao Wensheng returned from Japan. He suffered from great physical and mental pain, illness and poverty, and failed to claim damages from Japanese companies.Passed away in 2017.

1span1. _span4p Labor monuments, and monuments in many locations, are very vague.

For example, Xu Guiguo thinks: "When asked, it must be written that this is a war of aggression, and the other is a forced continuous operation and forced labor. This is necessary, and the other is suffering. The name of the person."

But the Japanese side failed to meet a requirement.

In the 1980s, the captain of the Hanaoka Labor Group, Geng Chen, returned to Japan again, determined to seek justice for the laborers of the year.

Once the news is reported, it is like a flag to be called.

started the peace campaign with Japanese friends such as Lin Boyao, an overseas Chinese in Japan and Japanese lawyer Shin Meilong,Around the 1990s, Chinese laborers began to claim compensation from Japan.

However, after a long and arduous appeal and litigation, the Japanese side always convicted the Chinese side.

Even, this case did not go through the facts, and China lost the case.

Japan’s attitude towards war and its attitude towards Chinese victims are actually already clear at a glance.

The Japanese company refused to admit the crime and signed a "reconciliation agreement" in which there was no apology, but a symbol of "consolation" Sexual compensation for workers is 500 million yen, and the Chinese side is required not to file a lawsuit.

What they are trying to do is "spend a small sum of money and buy out history."

These companies are still at the top of the world's economy, and they are still standing on the top of the world's economy.

He showed the writer Li Min a copy of "Xiangcheng County Annals".

He said: "Usually it is a conclusion that I am still alive, so I wrote me in the county chronicles. I believe that I can keep the evening festival, and I must keep the evening festival." _p11sp

span In Geng Chen's heart, he has always felt that as a captain, he needs to be responsible for the 1,000 workers that year, and he needs to be responsible for history.

But until the end, Old Man Geng still failed to see Japan's day of apology, and passed away in a miserable period at the age of 97.

"Labor under the Bayonet" uses solid historical facts and interview records, as well as the oral history of dozens of relevant personnel captured by Japan during the war against Japan. The fact of labor.

The historical data is informative, the viewpoint is clear, and the attitude is firm. It is an excellent historical film.

But sadly, not many people have watched this documentary, and very few young people have watched it.

History has never been just history.What we can do as younger generations is to keep the history in mind, and to do well in the tasks left to us by our predecessors.

In this way, we can comfort the martyrs.

Text/Pippi film editorial department: Tong Yunxi

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