Chapter 290: Guanyin Temple
With the weapons and ammunition provided by Matsuda's informants to provide accurate information and support from the Ogura Arsenal, coupled with Sakamoto's own sharp teeth, he quickly rose to the position of a core member of the Japanese Red Army faction, and planned two major operations that shocked Japan.
The first and most successful operation was the one in which Kozo Okamoto, under the leadership of Kozo Okamoto, blew up the Koya Kannon-in Temple and the Monument to the Seven Samurai Martyrs on Mt. Izu in Atami City.
There is a statue of Xingya Guanyin in the temple, which was built in February 1940, and the initiator was Matsui Shigen, one of the Class A war criminals of World War II in Japan and the commander of the Japanese Central China Front. After Matsui returned to Japan in March 1938, he proposed to use the red clay he had brought back from the town of Oba in Nanjing to make a statue of Kannon, which stood on the belly of Mt. Izu, and named it "Koya Kannon Statue", saying that the statue was "gentle and facing Nanjing", and that it embodied the "original intention" of "dedicating this merit to the equality of relatives forever" and "praying for the great light of East Asia".
There is a Kannon Hall not far from the statue of Kannon, and in the middle of the altar in the hall, there is a list of 23,104 people who died in the war in front of the statue of Kannon in the middle of the altar, and on both sides there are "Spiritual Tablets of the Japanese War Dead of the Shina Incident" and "Spiritual Tablets of the Chinese War Dead of the Shina Incident", so as to express the memorial to the war dead of both Japan and China. According to reports, the "spiritual seats" of Matsui Ishine and other seven Class-A war criminals were placed in a prominent position on the altar, and many physical objects related to Matsui Ishine were displayed on both sides of the altar.
On December 23, 1948, the bodies of seven Class A war criminals who had been hanged, namely Hideki Tojo, Kenji Dohihara, Seishiro Itagaki, Hyotaro Kimura, Ishine Matsui, Akira Muto, and Hiroki Hirota, were cremated by the U.S. Army in the Kuboyama Zero Field in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, and scattered by the U.S. Army in Tokyo Bay.
However, on December 25 of that year, one of the war criminals, Koiso Kuniaki's defender, Masahi Sanmon, secretly recovered the ashes of seven people from the columbarium and buried them in the Koya Kannon Temple. Today, in addition to these Class A war criminals who were hanged, the courtyard is enshrined. There are also more than 1,000 Class B and C war criminals who died from various causes.
The inscription attributed Japan's defeat to the use of atomic bombs by the United States, the Soviet Union's dispatch of troops, and the alleged lack of supplies, and described the trial of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East as an "ex post facto verdict." Although the inscription as a whole does not directly judge the war itself, the message conveyed between the lines is very clear. On the surface, it is to "explore" the "truth", but this "truth" is very clear in the heart of the stele. The inscription on the poem tablet is the best evidence:
"Crying and Martyrdom Seven Friends in Prison"
Demon Cloud Town is in prison, and last night three watches were martyred. The violent revenge is still too ancient, and the snow is wronged and the day is loyal to the soul.
This poem monument is like a footnote to the "Tomb of the Seven Martyrs". Written by Hiroshi Oshima. During World War II, the Japanese ambassador to Germany, in order to promote the Japan, Germany, and Italy Triple Alliance, won Hitler's trust, and was convicted of a Class A war criminal after the war and sentenced to life imprisonment. In the poem, he portrayed Sugamo Prison, where war criminals were held, as a hell on earth, praised the seven war criminals as "seven stars", cursed the Tokyo trial as "violent revenge", and vowed to "avenge their grievances".
In the center of the main hall, a small statue of Kannon is enshrined. The brown frames on both sides of the statue, which are closer to the statue, read, "Hirota Hiroki, Matsui Ishone, Tojo Hideki, Itagaki Seishiro, Kenji Dohihara, Kimura Hyotaro, Muto Akirei" and "1068 Pillars of Martyrdom".
On the left side of the main hall, there is a spiritual seat of Matsui Ishine, and there are many photos of Matsui, and a bottle of "Yasukuni Divine Sake" is placed. On the altar on the right side of the main hall is a photograph of Judge Parr, an Indian citizen of the International Court for the Far East. Parr is known to be touted by the Japanese right for advocating the innocence of Japanese war criminals. A statue of Parr is also placed in the shrine.
There are also several calligraphy works by Matsui Ishine in the main hall, as well as the signatures of seven Class-A war criminals before their execution, and the inscription is "Seven Martyrs Before Execution". An oil painting hangs on one wall. It depicts the scene of the Japanese army "living in harmony" with the Chinese people on the battlefield in China. Underneath the oil painting is a black-and-white photograph of a panoramic view of Guanghuamen Gate in Nanjing, courtesy of Heiji Tone, the flag-bearer of the 36th Infantry Company. The photo was taken on December 13, 1937 at 1 p.m. This day was the first day of the Nanjing Massacre launched by the Japanese army. On the other side of the main hall hangs a black-and-white picture of the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, taken at 12:20 on December 12, 1937, and the introduction of the photo reads "The moment when the Japanese army began to attack the city wall of Nanjing". And the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army in the war of aggression against China cannot be found here.
There are also oil paintings of the Battle of Xuzhou, calligraphy by Matsui Ishine, and a calligraphy with the words "Savior of East Asia" written on the walls. The inscription of the "Savior of East Asia" is "In commemoration of the Great East Asia Holy War Book, I hereby present to His Excellency General Matsui and Yuan Zhong'an, President of the Beijing Institute of Buddhist Studies."
In this regard, the host who created this place once proudly declared, "I heard." Savior is a very heavy word in Chinese. Chinese can describe Matsui Shigen as a savior, and I am really very grateful. "It's really unbelievable that such traitor remarks are hanging in a remote war shrine in Japan.
The Japanese Red Army led by Kozo Okamoto sneaked into the Kannon-in Temple at night and planted a bomb under the stone monument, so there was a loud bang at night. The stele is cut into three sections. Subsequently, the Japanese Red Army issued the following statement:
"The Monument to the Seven Martyrs was built in 1948 by the imperialist leader Shigeru Yoshida to summon the souls of Class A war criminals. This is the product of an out-and-out affirmation and glorification of the aggression and counter-revolutionary ideology of the old Japanese imperialism. It is a spiritual symbol of the neo-colonial aggression pursued by Japanese imperialism. ”
The stele was bombed, of course, the stele erectors refused to admit defeat, they did not hesitate to import special adhesives from Germany, glued and repaired the stele, and re-established it in its original place, and now the cracks on the stele can be clearly seen. It is also known as the "Koyasukuni Shrine" and is often visited by people.
After blowing up the monument of the Seven Samurai, Kozo Okamoto and others carried out the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, the reason in the statement was that Mitsubishi and other large enterprises were the vanguard of imperialist plunder, of course, this incident was naturally Sakamoto Takashi and planned, although now Downing has rarely clashed with Mitsubishi, but everyone knows that they will never be friends with each other, anyway, the Japanese Red Army must bomb a large enterprise, so Sakamoto Takashi took advantage of the situation to push Mitsubishi under their noses.
Even Kozo Okamoto planned a plan to assassinate Emperor Showa with a bomb, but unfortunately there was no chance to carry it out in the end. (To be continued.) )