Japanese pacifist makes China martyrs list  

首批300名抗日英烈名錄公布 含一名日本人

為永遠銘記抗日英烈的不朽功勛，大力弘揚愛國主義精神，凝聚實現中華民族偉大復興的精神力量，昨日，民政部公布了第一批在抗日戰爭中頑強奮戰、為國捐軀的300名著名抗日英烈和英雄群體名錄。名錄中列有一名日本人：宮川英男，日本人民解放同盟冀魯豫邊區協議會副委員長兼冀魯豫邊區參議員。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- A Japanese pacifist has been included on a list of 300 martyrs and heroic groups who sacrificed their lives during the Japanese invasion of China, People's Daily Online reported on Tuesday.

The list was released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Monday ahead of the 69th anniversary of the country's victory, which falls on September 3.

The Japanese pacifist Hideo Miyagawa sacrificed his life in China to stop the aggressive war initiated by Japan's Imperial Army from 1937 to 1945.

He came to China in 1939 when only 19 years old, as a forcibly conscripted soldier. Hideo was later captured by the Chinese Communist army, from which he learned the truth about the war. In 1941, he joined China's "Eighth Route Army", and an alliance of Japanese anti-war activists.

The 25-year-old young man shot himself with the last bullet in his gun after being surrounded by Japanese soldiers following a battle in Shandong province in 1945.

The list includes names from the CPC-led Eighth Route Army, New Fourth Army, the South China Guerrillas, the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, and other anti-Japanese militia resistance forces as well as famous officers and soldiers from the KMT.

It also listed some renowned representatives of Chinese patriotic personages and foreigners who supported China and died in the war.