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“Before we came to China, the Jap-anese government told us we were liber-ating the Chinese people from the enslav-ing hands of the Whites and they would welcome the Japanese army. However, I found that was a lie after I came to China,which was ruined by the war launched by Japan.…What we were fighting was an aggressive war.”
This year marks the 70tll anniversary of the victory of China’s War of Resis-tance against Japanese Aggression and victory over global fascism. In early Sep-tember, the Chinese Govemment and the Chinese people held grand celebrations.Among all the foreign veterans invitedto the ceremony, Kobayashi Kancho, a Japanese veteran of the Chinese Eighth Route Army, drew much public atten-tion. I accompanied him during the whole event, giving me a great oppor-tunity to know of his experiences. One remark perhaps best summarized his ideals and faith: “The Communist Party changed me from a Japanese devil to a comrade”.
Kobayashi was born to a Buddhist abbot on September 2, 1919. Smart and eager to learn, he passed the exam to become a monk. However, monks at that militaristic era could not escape being conscripted into the army. In the summer of 1940, with an enlistment order, he was one of the soldiers sent to Shandong Province in eastern China.
During a mopping-up operation,he was captured by the East Sea Bat-talion of the Jiaodong Branch of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong. He attempted to commit suicide twice,but failed. Later, being moved by the policy of“good treatment to captives”and educated repeatedly by the staff of the Enemy-Study Office of the Eighth Route Army, he decided to join it.
He actively participated in the anti-war propaganda work and became the head of the Bingai branch of the Anti-War Alliance. On the recommen-dation of Shu Tong, a senior leader and director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Area, he joined the Communist Party of China as a foreign member. When the war ended,he stayed in the Jinan Foreign Affairs Office helping with the repatriation of Japanese prisoners of the war and civil-ians who had been in China.
In 1953, at the age of 34, he was appointed vice president of the Fengzhen People’s Hospital in Inner Mongolia. On December 18, 1955, he returned to Japan with his family. Find-ing it hard to get a job, he faced many difficulties. Monitored by the Japanese Govemment, he finally got a position in a shipping company, as a shipboard translator on a meager income. He stilltook every opportunity to make speech-es telling the truth about Japanese ag-gression.
This year marks the 70tll anniversary of the victory of China’s War of Resis-tance against Japanese Aggression and victory over global fascism. In early Sep-tember, the Chinese Govemment and the Chinese people held grand celebrations.Among all the foreign veterans invitedto the ceremony, Kobayashi Kancho, a Japanese veteran of the Chinese Eighth Route Army, drew much public atten-tion. I accompanied him during the whole event, giving me a great oppor-tunity to know of his experiences. One remark perhaps best summarized his ideals and faith: “The Communist Party changed me from a Japanese devil to a comrade”.
Kobayashi was born to a Buddhist abbot on September 2, 1919. Smart and eager to learn, he passed the exam to become a monk. However, monks at that militaristic era could not escape being conscripted into the army. In the summer of 1940, with an enlistment order, he was one of the soldiers sent to Shandong Province in eastern China.
During a mopping-up operation,he was captured by the East Sea Bat-talion of the Jiaodong Branch of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong. He attempted to commit suicide twice,but failed. Later, being moved by the policy of“good treatment to captives”and educated repeatedly by the staff of the Enemy-Study Office of the Eighth Route Army, he decided to join it.
He actively participated in the anti-war propaganda work and became the head of the Bingai branch of the Anti-War Alliance. On the recommen-dation of Shu Tong, a senior leader and director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Area, he joined the Communist Party of China as a foreign member. When the war ended,he stayed in the Jinan Foreign Affairs Office helping with the repatriation of Japanese prisoners of the war and civil-ians who had been in China.
In 1953, at the age of 34, he was appointed vice president of the Fengzhen People’s Hospital in Inner Mongolia. On December 18, 1955, he returned to Japan with his family. Find-ing it hard to get a job, he faced many difficulties. Monitored by the Japanese Govemment, he finally got a position in a shipping company, as a shipboard translator on a meager income. He stilltook every opportunity to make speech-es telling the truth about Japanese ag-gression.