How many people are there in the Eighth Route Army of Japan? Hundreds of thousands?

According to relevant statistics, there are more than 9,000 Japanese troops in the Fourth Field Army and the Northeast Military Region. Most of them are in hospitals and logistics departments, such as military doctors, nurses, engineers, gunners, pilots, railway drivers, truck drivers, etc., and are generally engaged in urgently needed talents with high training costs that cannot be quickly replenished at the moment. Few Japanese soldiers will enter the combat troops, but this letter is an exception.

Zhang Xinjing, 18 years old, came to the northeast of China from Japan and has been working in Harbin Farm. At the beginning of 1945, the end of Japan was approaching, and a letter to this kind of farmer was also incorporated into the border guards and fought against the Soviet Union. Later, Japan surrendered, and he and his first mate surrendered to the Soviet Union. As a recruit, he was placed in a prisoner of war shelter in the northeast.

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They generally work in the "Japan Anti-war Alliance in China" (headquartered in Yan 'an, with branches in various anti-Japanese base areas), mainly to publicize the injustice of the Japanese invasion of China and the disasters brought to their individuals and families. Some of them joined the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army directly. They returned to China after the war, continued their anti-war work and were friendly to China.

Among them are the chairman of Japan's * * * production party, Sanzhinosaka, and the chairman of the August 4th Movement, Kobayashi Kuancheng (who participated in the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army). More than 40 Japanese veterans of the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and the People's Liberation Army, led by Kobayashi Kuancheng, returned to China to participate in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War at the invitation of the China Municipal Government in early September 20 15.