Dong Cheng Masao, a war criminal who killed Zhao Shangzhi: a former pseudo-Manchu superintendent from blind obedience to awakening

"I not only murdered General Zhao Shangzhi, but also let thirty million people in three northeastern provinces lose their leaders, which delayed the independence and liberation of the Chinese nation. I feel more and more guilty. "

"Blind obedience is terrible."

"Whether I live or die, I will do things for Japan-China friendship. This is my mission. My crimes remain in the history of China's Anti-Japanese War and will not disappear. My confession is endless. "

This is a word of regret written by Masao Dongcheng, a member of the Japanese "China Returnees Liaison Association" (hereinafter referred to as "China Returnees Association") and a former war criminal who invaded China, in his articles and letters after returning to China.

During the Japanese invasion of China, Masao Dongcheng worked as a policeman in Manchukuo for ten years and was captured by the Soviet Union. In July, 1950, together with more than 900 other Japanese war criminals, was handed over by the Soviet government to the new China government and detained in Fushun War Criminals Management Office. 1956 was released to China in July, began a journey of repentance, and devoted his life to the cause of Japan-China friendship in his later years.

Dongcheng Zheng Xiong 1990 or so.

Resume of Dongcheng Zhengxiong's invasion of China

Masao Toyo (19 13- 1995), a native of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, said, "Under the influence of military ideology, I blindly believed in the emperor system. In order to get ahead, I chose to be a policeman in the puppet Manchukuo." When he recalled the reason why he went to Manchukuo as a policeman, he wrote:

1927, according to Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka's policy program toward zhina, in order to further strengthen the aggression against China, the Japanese government used "imperial rescript on education" in the compulsory education stage and "military language" in the army, which imprisoned the national ideology. Not only that, but also propaganda "for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor and the country, we must hold the lifeline of the north-Manchuria". By that time, I had finished my military service, became a reserve and got married. However, with the growing influence of the Manchuria incident, people who retired with me were recalled to the army one after another. I live in Miyagi Prefecture, and one day I read a news in the newspaper: "Recruiting Manchukuo police 120 people from six counties in the Northeast (Northeast Japan), with a monthly salary of 70 yuan in addition to the active police." After reading it, I was overjoyed and signed up immediately. 1935 came to Manchukuo after passing the exam and took the first step of invading China.

After the September 18th Incident, the Japanese invaded the northeast of China and fostered the puppet regime of Manchukuo. In order to beautify its colonial rule, Japanese militarism carried out deceptive propaganda in Japan, and put forward slogans such as "harmony among the five ethnic groups" and "building a paradise" in the puppet Manchukuo, calling on the people to build a prosperous new country in the puppet Manchukuo. These demagogues made many young Japanese people come to the puppet Manchukuo with great expectation, and naturally they were "overjoyed" by Masao Dongcheng.

1935, Dongcheng Zheng Xiong entered Xinjing (now Changchun) Puppet Manchukuo Central Police School, 12 students in other subjects. At the beginning of the establishment of the Puppet Manchukuo Police, the personnel composition was complicated, most of them were China police in the period of Zhang Xueliang's regime, and some Japanese police were improvised. Therefore, the Japanese invaders attached great importance to the education and training of the puppet Manchukuo police, and set up a central police school in Xinjiang, the capital of the puppet Manchukuo, local police schools in various provinces and cities, and training institutes in various counties to train different levels of the puppet Manchukuo police. In the process of training, they were instilled with colonial ideas such as "harmony between Japan and Manchuria", "glory of * * * survival" and "integration of five ethnic groups", and police at all levels were required to be unconditionally loyal to the Japanese aggressors.

Dongcheng Zheng Xiong graduated with honors and won certificates and prizes. After that, the main experience is as follows (from high to low, the rank of the police in Manchukuo is: police officer, police assistant, police inspector, police inspector, sheriff, sheriff):

1935 10, chief of xiaoshuangbao police station of the capital police department.

In September, 1937, the director of the capital police station visited the on-site supervisor of the police station.

1938 added by the police inspector of the special service unit of Baoqing county police station in Heilongjiang province in March.

1939 March Chief of Judicial Unit of Baoqing County Public Security Bureau, police officer

1940 March Captain of Balanhe Forest Police Force in Tangyuan County, Director (concurrently) of Yinglan Town Police Station.

1940 10 month tangyuan county police chief.

194 1 year1October, police inspector and Commissioner of Xingshan Police Station in Heli County.

1942 May Director of Dalianhe Police Station in yilan county

1943 instructor and sergeant of Sanjiang local police school in March

1943 10 sheriff, captain of Christina Team of Duff County Border Police Force.

65438+March 0945 Sergeant, Chief of Police Defense, Fujin County Police Station

1in August, 945, he was escorted to the Soviet Union's Siberian prison camp for hard labor.

1July, 950, it was handed over by the Soviet government to the government of China and held in Fushun War Criminals Management Office.

1956 was released back to Japan in July.

People Become Ghosts —— The First Half of the Criminal Life of the Puppet Manchukuo Police

The police of the Puppet Manchukuo are not the police who "maintain social order" in the general sense, but the armed forces under the direct control of the Japanese Kwantung Army. They are an extension of the Japanese war of aggression against China among the people of China, and they are also tools for brutally suppressing the people of China and plundering China's wealth. The puppet Manchukuo police were equipped with advanced weapons such as rifles and light machine guns. Because they have the power to kill people with cold weapons, they have created countless tragedies of persecuting and killing patriotic soldiers and civilians against Japan. In addition to military repression, the puppet Manchukuo police also engaged in extreme espionage activities and implemented various inhuman policies to oppress and enslave the people in Northeast China. Zheng Xiong's 40-page confession in Dongcheng is a microcosm of the crime committed by the puppet Manchurian police. "Puppet Manchukuo police are the lackeys of Japanese invaders" is a phrase that often appears in Zheng Xiong's memory in Dongcheng.

At first, Zheng Xiong in Dongcheng worked in the police department of the pseudo-capital, and was responsible for transporting the police to the execution ground where the people of China were massacred. For example 1937, 40 people were massacred near Changchun. At the scene, he "leisurely watched China people being killed by the police of Manchukuo with rifles and pistols, or being beheaded by the Japanese with a knife. There are also doctors in the hospital of Manchuria Railway who dissect corpses on the spot and dig out internal organs. What they do is worse than animals. 40 to 50 people are slaughtered in China every month. " .

Puppet Manchu police can arrest, beat, interrogate the masses at will, and even secretly execute them. For example, in 1938, Dongcheng Zheng Xiong proposed four "prisoners" from the prison of the pseudo-Baoqing county office and escorted them to the river. Directed by his boss, Dongcheng shot and killed one of them from behind and threw the body into the river. His boss said, "No matter how tortured these people are, they won't confess, and it's useless, so they have to deal with it like this." For another example, in 1940, Dongcheng Zheng Xiong, then the police chief of Tangyuan County, ordered a woman (40 years old) to be arrested and hanged because she suspected that her husband was an anti-Union fighter, forcing her to tell her where her husband was and where her weapons were hidden. The woman was pregnant for six months at that time, and the torture caused the fetus to miscarry.

After the fall of Northeast China, it became the supply base of Japanese food and resources, and half of the materials needed by Japanese invaders were plundered from Northeast China. In order to meet the Japanese army's demand for grain, the Puppet Manchukuo implemented harsh policies of "grain delivery (compulsory low-price purchase of grain)" and "grain rationing", and robbed the people of grain. The Puppet Manchukuo police were the direct executors of this policy. According to Dongcheng Zheng Xiong's memory, sorghum, corn, soybeans, etc. are under his jurisdiction. It's all handed in. Ordinary people are not allowed to eat it. Wheat bran mixed with weeds was distributed to the people, who were dying, and some even ate mice. Dongcheng wore a pistol around his waist and ran wild in the village. He always thinks that "there will be food hidden somewhere." He asked his men to go door-to-door with guns. Even if only a handful of soybeans are found, the villagers will be arrested and tortured for violating the "food delivery" order, and then forced to press their fingerprints on the fabricated interrogation record and be arrested and imprisoned for "anti-state thinking." Due to unscrupulous search, Dongcheng can even overfulfill the grain distribution. In his confession, he described what he did at that time as "walking with ghosts and animals" and "squeezing the last drop of blood from the people".

The police of the Puppet Manchukuo is a police mainly engaged in extreme espionage, equipped with many full-time spy police, which is as important as the armed activities of the police. From 65438 to 0938, Dongcheng Zheng Xiong received a month's spy training in Jiamusi local police school, which improved his professional level in intelligence gathering.

Dongcheng Zheng Xiong wrote in his confession, "I was honored for murdering General Zhao Shangzhi, which is my biggest crime." .

194 1 year, Zheng Xiong from Dongcheng went to Xingshan Police Station in Pseudo-Heli County as the director of special agent. Xingshan Street, also known as Hegang Street, is a military secret protection area (fortress area designated by Kwantung Army). The mountainous areas in the territory were once the base areas of the anti-Japanese Coalition forces, and there were schools of the Chinese Communist Party. The famous Hegang coal mine is also here. Chinese workers in coal mines come and go frequently, and it is easy to "sneak in against Manchuria and resist Japan."

Zheng Xiong in Dongcheng recalled the scene at that time: "I am the director of Xingshan Secret Service, responsible for the task of' cracking down on red bandits'. Because doing well in places with poor public security will get subsidies and quickly improve their wealth, so they take the initiative to ask the hall to do it. "

Seeing the complex situation of Xingshan, Dongcheng thinks it is necessary to set up an intelligence network. He spends money, opium, etc. Buy China people as spies and make them pretend to be fur traders who run grocery stores, hotels and hunt. They either wandered around the streets and coal mines, or were sent to the mountains to spy on underground parties, anti-United forces and Soviet spies.

Zhao Shangzhi, one of the founders and main leaders of the Northeast Anti-Union, and Yang Jingyu are also called "Southern Yang and Northern Zhao". The Northeast Anti-Union War has always been a major worry for the Japanese aggressors. 1939 Umezu Yoshijiro, the new commander of the kwantung army, immediately gave the order to find the leader of the Anti-Japanese Union. The first person, Yang Jingyu, and the second person, Zhao Shangzhi, offered a reward of 20,000 yuan, 1 10,000 yuan.

194 1 10 In June, Zhao Shangzhi, who was stranded in the Soviet Union, returned to China to carry out his mission, with few entourage. Their activities in the mountainous areas around Heli and Tangyuan attracted the attention of the military and police of the Puppet Manchukuo. 165438+1One day in late October, Hisajiro Tai, the police chief of Xingshan, a pseudo-Heli county, listened to the report of his subordinate Dongcheng Special Agent Director: "There are about 10 hunters in Dongcheng, hunting in the mountains at the junction of Heli and Tangyuan counties, and living in sheds in the mountains in winter. According to them, Zhao Shangzhi and several of his confidants appeared, incorporated the old army, rebuilt the anti-Japanese Coalition forces, and planned to launch an anti-Japanese patriotic armed struggle. "

Hisajiro Tai attaches great importance to this message. His duty is to maintain the safety of Hegang coal mine and ensure that 4.5 million tons of coal are provided to the Japanese army every year. If Zhao Shangzhi leads the Anti-Japanese Union to Heli County, more than 30,000 miners will flock to follow Zhao Shangzhi in the war of resistance. In addition, there are many Japanese pioneers immigrants in Heli County, who plundered the land of the local people in large quantities, and the people's grievances were deep, and resistance was imminent. Therefore, Hisajiro Tai is determined to arrest Zhao Shangzhi before rectifying the anti-United front. Jing Tian also fantasizes that once he succeeds, he can not only be promoted and reused, but also return to China in the future to avenge the many Japanese soldiers who died under the anti-United guns led by Zhao Shangzhi. But he knew that Zhao Shangzhi was brave and popular, even if he sent a division of troops, he might not be able to catch him. So he decided to give up the "military crusade" and conspired with Zheng Xiong in Dongcheng to trap Zhao Shangzhi with spies.

Hisajiro Tai plans to put an agent beside Zhao Shangzhi, and after defrauding the trust, he will lure Zhao Shangzhi into the police ambush circle, and during this period, he will try to get Zhao Shangzhi injured and then capture him alive. He asked Dongcheng Zheng Xiong to find a "smart" spy. Dongcheng said that buying a spy needs money. Hisajiro Tai immediately applied to the special branch of the pseudo-Sanjiang Provincial Police Department, but the funds were not approved because of the low intelligence reliability. So Hisajiro Tai said to Dongcheng that after the job is done, the Kwantung Army will offer a reward of 10,000 yuan as a reward. You can also get some opium from the pseudo-security bureau, or grant some licensed materials such as grain and gunpowder to special agents, so that they can do some profitable business.

With the strong support of the boss, Dongcheng Zheng Xiong readily accepted the order and said that he would do his best to complete the task. At that time, in order to strengthen the safety of Hegang coal mine, Kwantung Army asked Hisajiro Tai to send guards to Wutonghe near the coal mine. Wutonghe River, 20 kilometers north of Xingshan, used to be a mining area and a traffic artery. Hisajiro Tai thought Wutonghe was the best place to trap Zhao Shangzhi, so he strengthened the police there and informed Dongcheng.

In order to get accurate information about Zhao Shangzhi, Zheng Xiong Dongcheng once bought 25 people from China as spies. 194265438+1In late October, he sent a truck to send spies and food into the Heshan District of Wu Tong. At the same time, Zheng Xiong in Dongcheng ordered Wu Tonghe Guard to send Liu Deshan, a spy used to lure Zhao Shangzhi, to the mountains. Liu Deshan has known Zhao Shangzhi for a long time. He is a dead shot. Before entering the mountain, the captain (from China) told Liu Deshan to move around the Wutonghe River in the range that he could return that day. If you meet a stranger, report it immediately. Who knows Liu Deshan lost contact after he entered the mountain. Dongcheng had to arrange another spy, Zhang Qingyu, to go into the mountains to find Liu Deshan. Two spies met Zhao Shangzhi and his party in the mountains, lied that they were anti-United fighters, cheated Zhao Shangzhi's trust and became a member of the team. Zhao Shangzhi and his party have been trekking in the ice and snow for a month. They are short of food and tired. The two spies are also very nervous, hoping to go back as soon as possible. One day, Zhang Qingyu, a spy, lied that the Wutong River Guard had sufficient food and empty police force, and tricked Zhao Shangzhi into attacking the Guard. Zhao Shangzhi, eager to get food and other supplies, believed the spy's words. 1942 February 1 1 Zhao Shangzhi and his party headed for Wutonghe in the middle of the night. On the way, Liu Deshan shot Zhao Shangzhi from behind, and Liu was immediately killed by other players. Zhang Qingyu hurriedly ran to the Wutonghe Guard to report. The guard sent about 20 policemen to surround Zhao Shangzhi's hut in the mountains, and escorted Zhao Shangzhi, who was seriously injured, to the pseudo-Wutonghe Guard. In the face of the trial of the pseudo-police, Zhao Shangzhi replied contemptuously: "You are Japanese lackeys and have nothing to say to you." After that, he didn't say a word Eight hours later, he died heroically because of his injuries.

In this way, General Zhao Shangzhi, who had been hunted for several years by Japanese Kwantung Army, Gendarmerie, Puppet Manchurian Army, police and local self-defense groups, unfortunately fell into a trap designed by an obscure grass-roots police and was killed by a spy. We can't help but sigh that the situation of the Anti-Union was difficult at that time, and the strength of the enemy and ourselves was very different. Knowing this, the patriots represented by Zhao Shangzhi still struggled to the last moment. The enemy will admire such an opponent.

Hisajiro Tai confessed in his confession that afterwards, in order to expand his political achievements, he fabricated facts in the official documents submitted to his superiors and described spy Liu Deshan as a policeman lurking around Zhao Shangzhi. Dongcheng is quite dissatisfied with this, but there is nothing that can be done. So Wutonghe Guard and Xingshan Police Station won collective meritorious service, and spy Liu Deshan also won the highest police rank and was promoted to police officer. As for the reward, Hisajiro Tai told the commander of Kwantung Army to give 1000 yuan, and entrusted the police chief of the pseudo-Sanjiang Province to distribute it. Most of them were assigned to Wutonghe Guard and used for Liu Deshan's funeral and pension. Dongcheng Zheng Xiong confessed that the reward was changed to 8,000 yuan because there was no "capture". Although there are different opinions on the amount and destination of the reward, they all admit that the Japanese police in Xingshan Police Department, including Dongcheng himself, did not give a reward on the grounds that there was no direct "merit". Dongcheng Zheng Xiong recalled that he only received a certificate from the pseudo-Governor of Sanjiang and the 40 yuan Prize.

I don't know what it's like to work so hard to get only one certificate without a generous reward. But when he is on official business, he will also do some "extra things" with rich income. In his confession, he confessed that when he served as the deputy of the forest police force in 1939, there were 2,000 workers employed by the "Manchuria Railway" company in the local area. These laborers engaged in heavy and dangerous logging work under the close supervision of the puppet Manchukuo forest police, with poor living conditions and low wages. Nevertheless, Dongcheng Zheng Xiong still took advantage of his position to deduct 7,000 yuan from workers' wages in advance, and instructed his subordinates to make false accounts. In addition, Zheng Xiong in Dongcheng disguised himself as a policeman and extorted people's property and accepted bribes whenever he had the opportunity to satisfy his selfish desires.

Although he is only a grassroots policeman, Dong is very "dedicated" and spares no effort to carry out orders. His methods are cruel, cunning and despicable. 1944, the puppet Manchukuo government awarded him eight Jingyun medals in recognition of Dongcheng Zheng Xiong's outstanding performance in suppressing the anti-Japanese and anti-Manchu masses since 1935, especially for his successful planning and execution of the killing of Zhao Shangzhi (Jingyun is a medal awarded by the puppet Manchukuo and awarded to people who have made contributions to the front line operations, "fighting bandits", maintaining social order and national construction. Under the influence of Japanese militarism, Masao Dongcheng lost his humanity in order to seek a personal "apprentice", and he was willing to become a loyal eagle dog of the Japanese invaders and a murderer who killed the people of China.

In August 1945, 1 1, the roar of Soviet tanks could already be heard in Zheng Xiong police station in Dongcheng. In order to destroy the criminal evidence of the puppet Manchu police, he and a Japanese policeman threw the relevant documents and pistols into the well to escape and were captured.

Transformation —— Fushun War Criminals Management Office for Six Years

1In July, 950, Dongcheng Zhengxiong was handed over to the New China government by the Soviet government together with more than 900 other Japanese war criminals and was detained in Fushun War Criminals Management Office. When he was a fake policeman in 10, Dongcheng Zheng Xiong was a combination of extremely stubborn personality, deep-rooted Japanese militarism and bad habits of fake policemen. The process of his ideological transformation is full of twists and turns. He wrote in an article recalling the reform:

I am stubborn by nature, no matter what others say, I can't change my mind at all. During his stay in Siberia, the Soviet Union organized prisoners of war to carry out democratic movements and criticized Japanese imperialism. Because the identity of the police is more "political" than that of soldiers, Democrats among prisoners of war have always regarded the police as a thorn in their side, and they even said that they would "turn spies, gendarmes and policemen into fertilizer for birch forests." Instead, it made me resist more and more strongly, constantly denying productism in my mind.

After returning to China, at first I was very dissatisfied with being put in prison as a war criminal. He proudly said to the director of the management office, "Is there any reason to call a favorite like me a' war criminal'? Let me hurry back to China! "

The stubborn Dongcheng Zheng Xiong was one of the typical diehards during his detention. The humanitarian treatment of managers and patient education of staff gradually influenced him. Dongcheng Masao mentioned such a thing in an article describing his ideological transformation:

One day I caught a cold when I was sleeping and had severe diarrhea. My roommate advised me to go to the infirmary. But I look down on Dr. China. I don't want to go because they didn't see anything. But then things got worse. I defecate 30 times a day and go to the toilet more frequently. Finally, it's too late to go to the bathroom. I spread a newspaper in the corner of the room and squatted on it. This scene was seen by the guards.

Guard: "What are you doing there?"

Me: "I have a stomachache …"

Guard: "Go to the infirmary at once."

In the corridor, the doorman asked with concern, "When did the pain start?" . I thought, "You're not a doctor. What does it matter when you blame the pain? " Just lie and say "three days ago"

The doctor perfused me in the infirmary.

In the corridor back to my room, I felt like I was going to shit again, so I couldn't help but stop. Unexpectedly, shit pulled into my pants and suddenly gave off a pungent smell. I just stood there. The monitor ran from behind and asked, "What's the matter?" As soon as he saw my expression, he immediately understood. He quickly helped me to take off my pants, then rolled them up and sent them to the laundry room for me to put on. I am ashamed and worried about being scolded by the monitor. But the monitor said to me, "The pants will be ready soon. Don't worry." Go back to your room and rest. "The sincerity of the doorman made me feel the warmth between people. After returning to my room, I told others about it.

Dongcheng, Zheng Xiong, 1950 Fushun War Criminals Management Office in July.

The humanized medical management of China government has become an opportunity for many war criminals to change their minds. Due to the differences in birth, age, experience and rank, there are tens of millions of confessions and introspection of Gui Lian war criminals, but it is basically a process from quantitative change to qualitative change, and many individuals finally construct the confession history of the special group "China Day". According to historical data, in March of 1954, the northeast working group of the Supreme People's Procuratorate carried out repentance education for war criminals. Within one year, more than 200 people pleaded guilty, and the number of war criminals who showed arrogance in the early stage decreased from more than 200 to more than 50, a decrease of about 160. Judging from the memory of Masao Dongcheng, he should belong to this period to realize the transformation.

The following memories of Masao Dongcheng reflect the collusion of war criminals in interrogation:

/kloc-one day in 0/954, all the prisoners gathered in the auditorium to watch a movie. In the crowded corridor, I met my former boss, Hisajiro Tai, director of Xingshan Police Station in Pseudo-Heli County. He trotted over, nervous and sinister, and whispered, "Never write about Zhao Shangzhi's murder. If people know, we will all die. " Then he hurried back to the distribution team. This sentence moved me inexplicably: "After all, my old boss thinks of me." I made up my mind once again that I would never say anything about murder.

However, the confession between war criminals in the "centralized confession" organized by the management office touched Zheng Xiong in Dongcheng:

During this period, centralized and frank discussions began, and war criminals were divided into divisions, gendarmerie, police and other groups. In the morning, each group collectively repented and studied, and returned to their respective rooms in the afternoon. The attitude of war criminals has also obviously become serious. Someone recalled the scene of the war and said, "What I did was too cruel to forgive." I couldn't help crying when I was talking.

After more than a month, everyone changed their minds and thought that "the important thing is to be responsible for what you do."

One day in the corner of my room, two soldiers were discussing how many pigs they killed in a certain battle in the village. I couldn't help laughing at them: "This stupid little thing should also be discussed."

Then the two soldiers discussed it many times together. I thought again, "Stop discussing this boring topic, I have more serious things." But unlike before, I felt an unusual impulse in my heart for an instant. I can't think that soldiers are fools. Seemingly naive dialogue, but now there is a strange power caught me. "Is that all right? Can you keep silent all the time? " I feel like I have another self in my body, and I am divided into two people. A few days later, I decided to write about what I know about General Zhao Shangzhi.

Through concentrated discussion, the war criminals not only know their own war crimes, but also know the sins of other war criminals, and then realize the unforgivability of each other's war crimes, which should be an unexpected gain of the Northeast Working Group's organization of concentrated confession of war criminals. In recent years, the written confessions of Japanese war criminals who invaded China published by the Central Archives were completed by organizing war criminals to discuss frankly, remind each other, criticize each other and help each other during the trial stage.

Two years later, 1956, based on the existing confession, Hisajiro Tai wrote a confession to kill Zhao Shangzhi, clearly admitted that he was the mastermind of the incident, and planned the whole murder plan, which was handed over to Dongcheng for execution.

Freshman-introspection and repentance in the second half of life

1In April, 956, the NPC Standing Committee promulgated the Decision on Handling War Criminals in Japan's War of Aggression against China, and decided to release most of them leniently, try a few, and not be sentenced to death or life imprisonment. Those who have been sentenced to good behavior during their prison term may also be released in advance. The third batch of 45-year-old Dongcheng Zheng Xiong was released in August of that year and returned to the motherland after more than 20 years.

During the period of 1956, Japan's economy entered a period of rapid development, and the released war criminals hoped to integrate into Japanese society as soon as possible. They must solve the problem of survival first. However, these "wanderers" who have left the motherland for many years are regarded as "red" elements, and they are repeatedly discriminated against in job hunting and employment, and many people are in a bleak situation.

Before Dongcheng Zheng Xiong returned to China, his wife borrowed money to support her family (stepmother, two brothers and four children). He returned to Japan and was penniless after selling his property and paying off his debts. 1953, Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications enacted the Law on Pension Security Assistance to provide "retirement pensions" to living veterans. However, the Japanese government believes that the puppet Manchukuo does not belong to Japan, and those who serve other countries cannot enjoy military pay. Therefore, Dongcheng Masao naturally cannot receive a "pension". This made him see clearly the ambiguous attitude of the Japanese government in the war of aggression against China:

The Japanese government acknowledged the fact that Japan invaded China in the Far East International Tribunal and the Japan-China Friendship Treaty. Internally, it is the "subsidy law" that stipulates that civil servants in foreign countries (such as Manchukuo) will not be subsidized. Publicize Manchukuo as an independent country in front of the people. The Japanese established puppet regimes in the three northeastern provinces of China and took them as their occupied territories. Manchukuo is not an independent country. This kind of internal and external contradiction is very regrettable for Sino-Japanese friendship.

Zheng Xiong in Dongcheng can't get a "pension" or a stable job. For the livelihood of his family, he moved to a foreign land, lived without a fixed address, and worked as a farm worker, a temporary hospital worker, a workshop worker and a doorman. Masao Dongcheng realized the hardships of life, which reminded him of the Japanese people who were ravaged by Japanese invaders. Finally, he stood with the victims of China war. He felt deeply guilty and the necessity of Sino-Japanese friendship, and vowed to do his best to make amends in the first half of his life.

1988 10, China Gui Lian invited Wu Haoran, former director of Fushun War Criminals Management Office, to visit Japan in time, and Chen Qi, former director of Fushun War Criminals Management Office, and other "China Gui Lian" members took photos with the guests.

When Masao Dongcheng returned to China, he provided important clues for finding the whereabouts of General Zhao Shangzhi's head. After General Zhao Shangzhi died in 1942, his head was cut off and his body was thrown into Songhua River. Later, the head was sent to the police station of the Puppet Manchukuo in Xinjing by Zheng Xiong in Dongcheng (the highest institution in charge of the police of the Puppet Manchukuo), and the whereabouts of the general's remains were unknown. During her visit to Harbin from 65438 to 0987, Naoko Yamazaki, a Japanese writer who studied the history of war, went to Wutonghe, which was arrested in Zhao Shangzhi, and learned that anti-United veterans had been looking for the head of General Zhao Shangzhi for decades. Out of admiration for General Zhao Shangzhi, Yamazaki also actively assisted in finding clues after returning to China. When she learned that Zhao Shangzhi's two main murderers, Tajiro Tadashi, had passed away and Dongcheng Zheng Xiong was still alive, she decided to visit Dongcheng. Yamazaki branch described in the article when he met masahiro dongcheng:

Dongcheng picked me up at the station by bike. He is 76 years old, but his memory is quite good. He said seriously: "I am deeply introspective now. I planned and implemented the plan to murder Zhao Shangzhi. "

Masao Dongcheng told Yamazaki that when he flew in from Jiamusi and sent Zhao Shangzhi's head to Xinjing, the originally frozen head had been thawed, and it became lavender due to the warmth in the cabin. I heard that I plan to bury my head in prajna temple, Dajing Road, Changchun. But he wasn't here, so he took a vacation the next day. Yamazaki quickly informed the Chinese side of Dongcheng's testimony. After unremitting efforts, the head of General Zhao Shangzhi was finally revealed in prajna temple in 2004. At this point, Dongcheng Zheng Xiong has been dead for many years. If he knows that General Zhao Shangzhi's head was found in the place he provided, he should feel some comfort.

When Japanese writer Yamazaki visited Masao Dongcheng, he also gave him a biography of Zhao Shangzhi. In order to understand the great life of General Zhao Shangzhi, Masao Dongcheng has read many times. He believes that many young people in Japan don't understand the war of aggression against China. Some people think that "because it is a war, I can't help it" or "I am a pioneer, I have done nothing bad" and so on. He hoped that one day more Japanese people would think from the standpoint of China, a war victim, and some people would understand the lofty spirit of General Zhao Shangzhi. Masao Dongcheng regrets that he has no ability and financial resources to translate Biography of Zhao Shangzhi into Japanese, so that Japanese young people can understand General Zhao Shangzhi.

After waking up, the stubborn Dong Xiong bid farewell to the wrong life in the first half of his life. Although he was in an awkward situation after returning to China, he faced the prejudice and resistance of postwar Japanese society with tenacious will, wrote an article criticizing the Japanese emperor and government for evading the responsibility of war, exposing the criminal acts of the police in the puppet Manchukuo, and proposed to the China Returned Overseas Federation to investigate the list of Japanese laborers forcibly captured during the Japanese invasion of China, so that his son could become friends with China engineers. Warmly welcome Japanese trainees to China and set up the Friends of China Broadcasting Association. , and strive to practice the activities of "China people return to China" and "anti-war peace and friendship between China and", and strive for peace and friendship between China and Japan in the way that we can.

Dongcheng Zheng Xiong's words and deeds touched the people around him. Under his influence, many people joined the peace activities of "China Reunification Alliance" as "sponsored members". In the early days of China's reform and opening up, Masao Takayama, Eiko Takayama and other Japanese friendly people were introduced to support Fushun's economic development.

1in may, 995, masahiro dongcheng ended an unusual life and passed away with many regrets.

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