Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan

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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.

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.

List of Japanese in the Chinese resistance

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

See also

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period

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.
• Xiaoyuan Liu. A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945.