Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan

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.

An IJNAF A5M fighter pilot who was shot down on 26 September 1937, had along with other captured Japanese combatants, become convinced to join the Chinese side, and helped the Chinese break Japanese tactical codes and other information that provided a huge intelligence windfall for the newly-established cryptanalyst unit headed by Dr. Chang Chao-hsi.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

List of Japanese in the Chinese resistance

See also

References
  1. Cheung, 2015, p. 30. 'A Japanese aviator taken prisoner in 1937' read the caption that accompanied this photograph in a Chinese newspaper in September 1937. Comparison with Japanese photographs reveals similarities between this individual and Lt Shichiro Yamashita, who was shot down near Nanking by Loh, Ying-teh on 26 September... it was kept a secret for 30 years after Loh convinced Yamashita to support the Chinese cause by helping to break IJNAF tactical codes and interpret intelligence. This defection was one of the untold secrets of the Sino-Japanese War... it was a huge intelligence windfall... especially for the newly-established cryptanalyst unit headed by Dr. Chang Chao-hsi.
  2. Roth, Andrew (1945). Dilemma in Japan. Little, Brown & Co.
  3. Roth, Andrew (1945). Dilemma in Japan. Little, Brown & Co.

Bibliography

  • Cheung, Raymond. Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 126: Aces of the Republic of China Air Force. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978 14728 05614.

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.
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