Ozaki Hideki: A Japanese friend who loves the people of China.
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As a special correspondent of Asahi Shimbun, Ozaki met many left-wing cultural figures in China, and helped the "Left-wing League" activities. During this period, he and Lu Xun became close friends.
One day in June, Ozaki and his wife Guang Lai Eiko boarded a ship from Kobe to Shanghai. Ozaki Hideki went to Shanghai as a special correspondent for Asahi Shimbun. Mr. and Mrs. Ozaki came to China, which they have been longing for for for a long time. At first, they lived upstairs in a clothing store in Yifeng Li, Kunshan Road, a Japanese concession. Here, Ozaki's first job is to investigate and understand the actual situation of China society from the political, economic and cultural aspects. To this end, he spends at least a few hours every day carefully reading Chinese, English and Japanese newspapers published in Shanghai and making records. Asahi Shimbun Shanghai Branch is located in Sichuan North Road, not far from the office of China Left-wing Literature and Art Organization Creation Society. Downstairs of the office is a bookstore, which sells books, brochures and magazines. On the second floor is a cafe for readers to relax, where left-wing cultural figures often meet and communicate.
At the end of 1928, Ozaki began to enter and leave the bookstore here. As a newcomer to Ozaki, I am very surprised to be able to buy left-wing literature including Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Japanese. Ozaki's greater achievement here is that he has established close relations with colleagues in the Creation Society, such as Peng Kang, Feng Naichao, Zheng Bojian, Tao, Yu Dafu, Tian Han and Cheng. Subsequently, Ozaki Hideki published many papers in popular literature magazines under the pseudonym of Shirakawa Jiro or Ozaki, such as "Japanese Workers' Movement" and "Why the British Left-wing Literature and Art Movement lags behind".
1930 In March, the League of Chinese Left-wing Writers was established. At the same time, Ozaki met Lu Xun and he was immediately attracted by Lu Xun's personality charm. After that, in cooperation with Tao, Masayoshi Yamayama and others, the Collected Works of Lu Xun was published in Japanese, which was incorporated into the International Proletarian Series of the Japan Society and published in June 193 1. The first published work of Lu Xun at that time was The True Story of Ah Q, translated by Lin Shouren (pen name is Masayoshi Yamanaka) and Ozaki (pen name is Ozaki). Lu Xun helped this work with great enthusiasm, and he also proofread the Japanese translation of The True Story of Ah Q himself. Before The True Story of Ah Q, Ozaki Xiuji wrote the article "The Present Situation of the Left-wing Cultural Front in China". This paper looks forward to the development prospect of the proletarian literature movement in China, describes the persecution suffered by this movement, and quotes the statement of the Leftist League in full text, expressing strong resistance to the reactionary forces.
On February 7, 193 1, the garrison headquarters, the Kuomintang brutally killed 24 revolutionary youths including Yin Fu in Songhu. In this regard, the Left League issued a protest statement to the reactionary authorities. Ozaki read the statement silently and repeatedly. He decided to translate it into Japanese and describe the heroic sacrifice of these 24 martyrs with indignation: "They were forced to dig their own graves first, and then ordered some soldiers to bury them alive, so five revolutionary youths were buried alive. Even the soldiers who executed them felt terrible. The rest of the victims were shot and their bodies were thrown on top of the first five people. According to other prisoners in the prison, these 24 people were escorted out before midnight on the 7th. When the soldiers arrived, both men and women were singing "The Internationale", and the songs kept coming from the opposite cell wall. Then the gunshots sounded and stopped with the songs. Six people sang it again, and this tragic song was intermittent and disappeared in the last six shots. " Ozaki Hideyoshi also translated his poem "Let the Dead Die" in Japanese two years before Yin Fu, one of the 24 martyrs died.
1930 September 17, Ozaki Hideki and American progressive journalist Smedley were invited to attend Lu Xun's 50th birthday celebration. Mr. Lu Xun once commented on Smedley: "He is a good German journalist with a wide range of knowledge and is very loyal and reliable." From Lu Xun's writing about Ozaki Xiushu, we can see that he regards Ozaki as a like-minded friend and is full of trust in Ozaki. Lu Xun's personal contact with Ozaki has indeed developed to this extent, which is recorded in Lu Xun's diary of 193 1 to 1934.
In "Looking for Old Dreams Lazily", Xia Yan also specifically introduced the deeds of Japanese friends such as Ozaki Xiuji, and wrote that he deliberately "wrote this paragraph to let China readers not forget that there were Japanese friends who loved the people of China in our most difficult time."
Japan's war of aggression against China not only caused great disasters to the people of China, but also brought havoc to the Japanese people. Ozaki joined hands with Japanese in China, taking the Sino-Japanese anti-war alliance as the position, and consciously joined the anti-war struggle.
Another group that Ozaki paid special attention to and contacted was the Japanese Anti-War Alliance (zhina) branch. The general process of the establishment of the Sino-Japanese Anti-War Alliance is:1In July, 930, Tadao Tanaka of Shanghai Weekly and Wang Xuewen of the Union of Social Scientists (China * * * party member) organized a reading club as the core. After that, the reading club gradually turned from the initial research activities to the actual struggle. The members of the Japan-China Anti-War Alliance are: Komatsu Maoxiong (employee of Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd.), Liu Ye Fu Xili (reporter of Shanghai Daily), Yang Liuqing (reporter of party member, China), Kawaguchi Zhen Ji (reporter of Shanghai Daily), Wang Xuewen (reporter of party member, China) and Hou Chaozong (native of Taiwan Province Province). The Sino-Japanese anti-war alliance was led by the Japanese Foreign Military Commission and the anti-imperialist alliance of China.
In the autumn of the same year, Ozaki was introduced to Yangliuqing, a member of party member Anti-Japanese and Anti-war Alliance. They hit it off and immediately agreed to exchange information on the left. They will keep in touch for this in the future. In the spring of 193 1, entrusted by Yang Liuqing, Ozaki Xiushu participated in several "flying rallies" organized by China. Holding this kind of party requires some people from other departments to know the actual situation, so Yang Liuqing thinks Ozaki Xiushu, who doesn't know others, is a suitable candidate. Ozaki Xiushu Club will report to Yangliuqing about the "Flight Conference" at any time. At the same time, Yangliuqing also introduced the meeting between Ozaki and Wang Xuewen. While studying in Japan, Wang Xuewen studied under Kawasaki, a famous Japanese Marxism–Leninism theorist. Therefore, from the first time I saw Wang Xuewen, Ozaki regarded him as a century-old friend. They often meet in small restaurants downtown to exchange views on the Japanese situation and the situation in China.
In this way, Ozaki established a comrade-like relationship with two Japanese revolutionaries of the Sino-Japanese Anti-war Alliance. During this period, Ozaki Xiushu also provided financial support to Yangliuqing, and provided a considerable amount of activity funds to the China * * * Production Party through Yangliuqing every month, which eased the economic difficulties of the party organizations in difficult times.
193 1 in the summer of, according to the opinions of the China * * * production party, Kawasaki Sadako and Komatsu Shigeo learned intelligence work from Ozaki Hideki, and in the same year, they accepted the leadership of Ozaki Hideki, sorge (* * * production of important international members) and Smedley, and began to collect information about the Japanese imperialist war of aggression against China. Together with sorge, Smedley and others, he traveled with Kawasaki Masayoshi in Northeast China, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Japan under the fascist terror for ten years, from 193 1 to 1, to investigate the changes in the relationship among Japan, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang and the movements of the Kwantung Army. Ozaki and Kawaguchi Masayoshi believe that this is the only and most effective way for them to oppose the Japanese imperialist war of aggression.
During the war years in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a group of anti-Japanese volunteers, represented by Ozaki Hideki, stood on the side of China people and made important contributions to the anti-fascist struggle on the hidden front.
After returning from Shanghai, Ozaki still worked in Asahi Shimbun and published many comments on Japan and East Asia. These comments caused a sensation in Japan. Ozaki Hideyoshi jumped from being a "China expert" in the Japanese press to becoming a recognized expert on China. In view of solid foundation and keen insight,1June, 937, Ozaki Xiushu became the "entrustment" (consultant) and private secretary of Premier Wei, and was free to enter and leave the Prime Minister's office and attend the meetings of the Prime Minister's think tank. His main task is to provide information about China and put forward opinions on handling China affairs. This makes him not only very familiar with the Japanese government's decision-making, but also able to exert certain influence.
In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's most difficult times, the leading body of China's * * * Production Party was able to keep abreast of some strategic decisions of the Japanese high command, the contents of the Japanese emperor's command meeting, the Japanese army's operational deployment, the collusion between Japan and Wang Jingwei, and even the military battle map. For these important strategic information, Ozaki sent it to Yan 'an mainly through Japanese-born party member Xigong Zhong in Shanghai. Seeing this information with strategic value is tantamount to attending the decision-making meeting at the highest level in Japan. Ozaki's actions greatly helped China's war of resistance. Mao Zedong once spoke highly of the contributions of these "international comrades". Zhou Enlai once praised Ozaki Xiushu as a "national treasure".
194 1 in the summer of, after the German attack on the Soviet Union, whether the Japanese marched south or north became the most concerned issue for Stalin and the Central Committee of China. Mao Zedong believes that if the Japanese attack the Soviet Union in the north, the situation in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China will be more difficult. At this critical moment, as a core member of sorge's "Ramza" team, Ozaki Hideki, after learning that Japan was determined to go to war with Britain and the United States, informed Moscow in time through German-Soviet intelligence officer sorge, which made Stalin determined to transfer 20 elite divisions of the Far East Army to the western front and turn the tide in Moscow at a critical moment.
Sorge later said of Ozaki Xiushu, "Ozaki is my first and most important assistant ... Our relationship, whether personal or working, is very harmonious. He gave me a lot of accurate, comprehensive and valuable information from the Japanese. The Japanese information he provided me accounted for a quarter of my information sources. Ozaki is a very great man. "
/kloc-in mid-October, sorge's true identity was revealed, and more than 30 people, including Ozaki Xiushu, were arrested by the Japanese.
When the Tokyo court pronounced the sentence, Uesaki Hideyoshi said: "They are not afraid of sacrifice, and have worked tirelessly for a long time, using ingenious means to carry out reconnaissance activities, which has caused great harm to the sacred cause of the empire, national security, the Great East Asian War and the victory or defeat of friendly countries."
Ozaki Hideyoshi has always hated Japanese aggression against China and sympathized with the people of China in resisting colonial aggression. It's not that he doesn't love his motherland. Ozaki Hideki firmly believes that only by stopping Japan's war of aggression against China can the people of Japan and China avoid devastating disasters and realize peace and friendship between them for generations to come. This is the great happiness and fundamental interests of the two peoples. It is precisely because of this concept that Ozaki is completely different from imperialist spies. He provides information entirely out of trust and never pays for it. When the party organization was in trouble, he also used his personal savings to help. This noble style also proves that the advanced belief of productism, which represents justice, has a strong appeal!
1944165438+1October 7th, Japanese militarists who felt desperate for the end deliberately chose the 27th anniversary of the October Revolution and secretly hanged Ozaki Hideki and others.