Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan

Japanese writer Wataru Kaji and his wife in Hankow circa 1938

Throughout the Second Sino-Japanese war (1937–1945), Japanese dissidents and Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) joined the Chinese in the war against the Empire of Japan.

The education of Japanese captives by the Eighth Route Army began in 1938. In November 1940 the Peasants' and Workers' School was established. It reeducated Japanese POWs who afterwards were involved in propaganda.^[1]

Sanzo Nosaka, and Kaji Wataru joined the Chinese resistance. They reeducated Japanese POWs. Several organizations emerged during the war. The Anti-War League, the Japanese People's Emancipation League and a communist league.^[2]

List of Japanese in the Chinese resistance

• Teru Hasegawa
• Shigeo Tsutsui
• Yuki Ikeda
• Kazuo Aoyama

See also

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period

References

Further reading

• 早乙女 勝元 (1991). 延安からの手紙―日本軍の反戦兵士たち. 草の根出版会.
• Kagawa Takashi, Maeda Mitsushige (1984). Japanese soldiers of the Eighth Route Army. Saimaru Shuppankai. 
• Pingchao Zhu (2015). Wartime Culture in Guilin, 1938–1944: A City at War. Lexington Books. 
• Israel Epstein. My China Eye: Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist. 
• Ariyoshi, Koji (2000). From Kona to Yenan: The Political Memoirs of Koji Ariyoshi. University of Hawaii Press. 
• Kushner, Barak. The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda. pp. 137, 141–143. 
• Agnes Smedley (1972). Great Road. NYU Press. p. 388. 
• Xiaoyuan Liu. A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945.

External links

• "Japs, Despondent Over War, Reported Ending Lives". St. Petersburg Times. May 7, 1944. 
• "JAP RED SAYS:— CRISIS IN JAPAN IS NEAR". The Newcastle Sun. 3 August 1944. 
• "Japanese and Chinese Fight Side by Side". The Swan Express. 20 March 1940. 
• "JAPANESE WHO FIGHTS FOR CHINA". Townsville Daily Bulletin. 13 May 1940. 
• "Visit To Eight Route Army". The Sydney Morning Herald. Jul 12, 1944. 
• "Chinese Attack Japs Today Near Shanghai Limits". The Daily Times. May 23, 1938. 
• "Oral History Interview with John S. Service". Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. 
• 抗战史上的今天 15 野坂参三决定建日本人民解放联盟 (in Chinese). 【抗战史上的今天】官方频道---纪念中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年. Jan 14, 2015. 
• 抗战史上的今天 12月19日 鹿地亘对记者谈反战同盟 (in Chinese). 【抗战史上的今天】官方频道---纪念中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年. Dec 20, 2015. 
• Stories of anti-war Japanese in China, 1937-1945. CCTV.com. Aug 31, 2015. 
• Japan-Anti-fascism War. CCTV.com. Aug 19, 2015. 
• "国际友人对中国抗日战争的援助". 国际友人对中国抗日战争的援助. October 9, 2010. 
• "延安工农学校里的日本战俘". 抗日战争纪念网 (Japanese War Memorial Network). December 31, 2015. 
• "得道多助国际支援". 抗日战争纪念网 (Japanese War Memorial Network). April 5, 2014. 
• "他们来到中国战场". 中国人民革命军事博物馆 (Military Museum of Chinese people's revolution). 
• ""日本八路"：抗战中的"在华日人反战同盟"". 中国共产党历史网 (Chinese Communist Party History Network). 18 September 2014. 
• "日俘何以成为八路军战士？". 中国共产党历史网 (Chinese Communist Party History Network). 21 December 2015. 
• "《延安精神耀千秋》". 中国共产党历史网--人民网 (History of the Communist Party of China Network). 21 December 2015. 
• "중국과 함께 했던 외국적 항일투사(사적)7-가지 와타루". 국가공공추도망 (The National Memorial). 30 June 2015. 
• "抗战时期援华的国际友人". 国家公祭网 (The National Memorial). 9 October 2015. 
• Japanese veteran: "I thank China for bringing me a new life". New China TV. Aug 13, 2015. 
• From "Japanese devil" to Chinese soldier. New China TV. Aug 19, 2015. 
• "昆仑关战役述评". China Youth Network. October 28, 2013.