One day in the autumn of 1943, 60-year-old Wang Jingwei fell down the stairs, suffering so much pain that he even fell into a coma for a while. The various traumas and inflammation caused by the bullet that remained in his body at the time of his assassination in 1935 were diagnosed as the main cause.
After being personally operated by the director of the Japanese Lieutenant General of the Nanjing Hospital, the warhead that had been in Wang Jingwei's body for nearly eight years was removed.
At first, Wang Jingwei's recovery was in good condition, and he himself was overjoyed. But after a few days, the condition began to deteriorate, and there was incontinence.
In March 1944, Japan sent a special plane to pick up Wang Jingwei and send him to the special ward of the Faculty of Medicine of Nagoya Imperial University to perform a second bone reduction operation for him, but the operation effect was still not satisfactory, and Wang Jingwei was in unbearable pain every night and groaned.
In June 1944, the weather was hot, and due to the lack of supplies in Japan, the air conditioning in Wang Jingwei's ward began to be unable to operate, so he could only rely on opening the window to blow a natural cool breeze. But Wang Jingwei's physique was already extremely poor at this time, although he sweated every day, he still often caught colds and was extremely anemic, so he could only rely on his two sons to give him blood transfusions in turn. I also tried laser** during this period, but to no avail.
In November 1944, it was cold and windy in Nagoya, and Wang Jingwei's hospital room was even more bitterly cold. However, due to the indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese mainland by the United States, there is a shortage of materials, not to mention the provision of heating, and even the coal for a stove in the room is very scarce.
On November 9, bombing began near the Imperial Hospital, and Wang Jingwei was temporarily transferred to an underground bomb shelter. At that time, Wang Jingwei had a high fever of 41 degrees and a pulse of 128 beats per minute, and he was frightened, causing pneumonia.
At 4:20 p.m. on November 10, Wang Jingwei, who had been moved around to avoid the bombing, died of fright in the cold with a high fever and fright, at the age of 61.
After Wang Jingwei's death, the Japanese side held a grand funeral for him out of various considerations, and sent a special plane to transport his coffin to Nanjing and bury it in Meihualing, next to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, to show that he was a follower of Dr. Sun Yat-sen for life.
Considering that Wang's tomb might be destroyed, his wife, Chen Bijun, designed Wang's tomb as a large, semicircular cement stone pier with 5-ton pieces of broken steel. She also put a note in Wang Jingwei's corpse clothes, which read "The soul returns", fearing that his ghost will be in a foreign land and cannot return to China.
On the evening of January 21, 1946, under the personal order of Chiang Kai-shek, an engineering unit was stationed in Meihualing to blow up and raze Wang Jingwei's grave.
Wang Jingwei's coffin was dragged out and sent to a special crematorium, where the body was cremated and completely blown away by a blower, leaving no ashes behind.