Toshiro, a Japanese soldier who participated in the Nanjing Da**. However, the discovery of conscience led him to make his wartime diary public and to come to China several times to apologize and confess.
In fact, there are not a few such Japanese, such as Hiroshi Yamazaki, whom we are going to introduce today, who deserves our respect more than Toshiro.
On December 1, 2010, Mr. Hiroshi Yamazaki died of illness at his home in Jinan, Shandong.
In 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and there was a large-scale conscription in Japan. As a recent medical graduate, Mr. Hiroshi Yamazaki was forcibly taken to China to become a military doctor.
However, when he witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese army burning, killing and looting in China, his heart was full of resistance and resistance to the invaders. In order to protect the Chinese, he resolutely chose to flee during the march and was helped by local farmers.
Since then, he regarded the Chinese people as his benefactor and devoted his life to serving the people.
Hiroshi Yamazaki got a job at the Japanese-run Jinan Railway Bureau, where he was in charge of guarding the material storehouse. At this time, local residents often stole military supplies, and the Japanese ordered to shoot the thieves as soon as they were detected.
Soon, Hiroshi Yamazaki discovers that several young people are stealing cloth because their wages are too low and their families are starving. He felt sympathy for them, and in order to protect them, he took the initiative to take out a bundle of cloth and told them to leave as soon as possible.
Initially, the young men were suspicious of Hiroshi Yamazaki, but after a few helps, they found out that this Japanese was different from other Japanese. Although the Japanese found out about the incident and severely beat Hiroshi Yamazaki, he firmly denied knowing about it and protected the young men.
In the end, the Japanese had no choice but to release him. After that, those young men and Hiroshi Yamazaki became brothers with different surnames. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Hiroshi Yamazaki had the opportunity to return to Japan, but he chose to stay.
He wrote a letter to his family in Japan explaining his situation, then opened a clinic in Jinan, got married, and had children.
His brother had tried to recall him to Japan with a decent job, but Hiroshi Yamazaki firmly refused, determined to stay here and atone for himself and his country. Since he was Japanese, at first, people didn't trust him, and many people called him "Doctor Oni".
However, Hiroshi Yamazaki did not get angry because of this, he heard that someone was sick, so he took the initiative to go and see it, and if someone couldn't afford to buy medicine, he gave it away for free. Gradually, people came to know that this Japanese man was a kind Japanese doctor.
In addition to running his own clinic, he also volunteered to work in a suburban hospital, receiving only the minimum wage, and he shared the excess money with others. In 1976, with the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, he returned to his hometown in Japan for the first time after a 39-year absence.
However, he only stayed there for three months and then hurried back because he couldn't let go of his clinic and the neighbors who were still waiting for his treatment. When he returned to Japan to visit relatives and friends, he bought tens of thousands of Japanese books out of his own pocket and donated all of them to the Jinan City Library.
In 2007, he pledged to donate his body to the medical community for autopsy after his death. He died at his home in Jinan on December 1, 2010.
It is said that the day before his death, he was still in the clinic for two hours. Such Japanese people deserve our respect.