The Historical Status of Japanese Immigrants in Canada

"People who are good to the country love it, but those who are bad to the country hate it"-Yan Ying, never forgetting history and remembering his mission. As every Chinese son and daughter, we should not forget history, but remember it.

In the modern history of China, more than 40,000 young people from China crossed the East China Sea with Japanese ships and went to live in Japan. These people disappeared mysteriously not long after they went to Japan. At that time, Japan's foreign rhetoric was that all China people who immigrated to Japan had lived a happy new life.

However, do these 40,000-odd China people really like the "happy life" declared by Japanese officials? The truth may be late, but it will never be absent.

The lie will eventually be exposed, and 50 years later, this lie fabricated by Japan will eventually be exposed. At that time, Japan tried to "paint a pie" for the world and fabricated acts that ran counter to the facts, but it didn't work after all. So, where did the more than 40,000 Japanese who "immigrated" to Japan go? Why did they suddenly disappear like this? What is the so-called immigration truth?

193 18 September 18, the September 18th Incident which shocked China and foreign countries took place. The Japanese army invaded the Northeast and opened the northern gateway of China. 1937, Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China. At that time, many young people in the family were recruited into the Japanese army.

This establishment has caused a serious hole in Japan's domestic labor market, and there are not enough people to participate in the development of domestic industries, which will greatly affect the production of war materials and the living security of those Japanese soldiers. So the people-oriented government at that time began to plan a shocking scam, and they began to recruit a large number of young people from China at that time to go to Japan in order to produce more war materials for them.

At the end of June, 1942, 165438+ the cabinet of tojo hideki, Japan, passed the resolution of "moving China laborers to mainland Japan". However, this resolution has also found a policy basis for Japanese employees who specialize in recruiting workers in China.

In March of 1943, they first transported 65,438+0,400 workers from China to Japanese enterprises. Later, they gave up this recruitment method and began to forcibly capture farmers or workers and shipped them to Japan one after another to work for local Japanese enterprises. They were assigned to mines, ports, military construction sites and other areas.

However, Japanese locals are not friendly when they meet these foreigners. They are not allowed to have contact with the local Japanese, and they are all placed in a fixed reception center. In this way, groups of China people mysteriously disappeared from public view soon after they went to Japan. No one knows where they have gone and what they are doing.

Do they really want to make a living? Not at all, as they say, I immigrated to Japan to live a new life. In Japan, no matter local soldiers or ordinary Japanese, these Chinese workers who went to Japan were not regarded as normal people, and the life of purgatory never stopped from the moment they set foot on Japanese soil.

I don't have enough to eat every day. Don't think about what they say about rice, steamed bread and fish. These don't exist. At that time, Chinese workers in Japan ate wild vegetables with some extremely rough wheat flour, which not only made them hungry, but more importantly, they had no oil, water and nutrition. Most workers become very thin within a period of time.

In addition to being greatly restricted in diet, it is also extremely painful in freedom. Every work area will have a supervisor, and every day many people will be awakened by hunger and then driven to work. If you are lucky, you will encounter potatoes and Chinese cabbage leaves falling from the car carrying broken vegetables. After all, you are so hungry.

The life of the workers exiled to the mine is even more miserable, and the rooms they live in are extremely simple. Originally, it could only accommodate eight people, but it was abruptly squeezed into more than 15 people, and some rooms were even more crowded. In winter, the cold wind will blow in directly from the wall or the crack of the door, and you can feel the biting chill from head to toe. There is no quilt, no mat, only a piece of sack, with hard objects such as wood, bricks or helmets on his head. There is only one toilet in the room, and the windows are all equipped with iron guardrails to prevent Chinese workers from escaping.

For workers in China, getting sick is the most terrible thing, because there is no doctor to treat you, and you can only stand by when you are sick. Once you get seriously ill, you will be disposed of by the Japanese and buried in one place. Almost every day, I see people dying and dare not run, because once caught, people who really have no labor may be taken by the doorman to feed the dog.

Workers in China have to work 16 hours or more every day. Sometimes, in order to catch up with the construction progress, Japanese supervisors will dispatch all the workers and violently order China workers to work 24 hours a day. Some people fall to the ground at work and never get up again.

After the end of World War II, Japan was defeated, so China stopped sending laborers to Japan as coolies. In just over two years, more than 40,000 workers from China were forcibly taken to Japan to work as coolies. During that time, more than 7,000 people who were tortured to death were sent to China one after another after being found alive, and most of them returned to China to receive medical training for half a year. As for this history, it was not uncovered until 50 years later.

How did the Japanese army "recruit" Chinese workers in China? Deception, forced deception, deception all the time! China workers can rest assured that they can eat delicious food, spend money and live in good dormitories in Japan. If they don't do well, they can always come back. Most importantly, they directly offer so-called high rewards to deceive and seduce them.

However, when all people are locked in labor training centers and labor shelters, there is no turning back. Just like being locked in a cage, batches were transported to Japan to do heavy work in coal mines, mining areas and educational places. After hard work, what they got was not a high reward, but a bad check and a hungry beating.

During the recruitment process, the Japanese army lied to the local people that they were going to work somewhere in China, which was similar in peacetime, but they could get several kilograms of rice and flour every week. These are great temptations for many young people who have never traveled far away during the war years, so they are happy to sign up without hesitation, but nothing can change at this time, and they have been cheated.

At that time, there were transit stations in Tanggu, Qingdao and Shanghai, which they called labor shelters. All the workers are concentrated here, and there will be a large number of Japanese soldiers guarding the shelter. Then, in this way, I splashed on the sea with Japanese cargo ships carrying coal for a week, and after landing, I began a life like purgatory in Japan.

After this history was uncovered, Japanese right-wing extremists at that time tried to cover up this history and cover up all kinds of atrocities that happened to Chinese workers. In the end, the Japanese government responded to the persecution of Chinese workers with compensation.

In addition, Japanese militarism also committed these atrocities against South Korea, Canada, North Korea and other countries.

Although the war has ended and the Japanese government is no longer a wartime government, as long as the Japanese government still exists, it should take the initiative to assume all the responsibilities of the Japanese army in China at that time, instead of covering up and reversing history, and should take the initiative to assume historical responsibilities.

At present, we live such a happy life, which was spelled out by our ancestors with their lives. A good life is hard to come by. We should not forget history. We should remember history, historical mission, national humiliation, revitalize China, strengthen the country and enrich the people, and base ourselves on the world.

References:

Memorial archives