Yoshiko and adoptive father
Yoshiko Kawashima was born in 1907 with Chinese royal blood. Her real name is Ai Tan Giac La Hien Du, she is Tuc’s 14th daughter Prince Thien Ky. From a young age, Hien Du was a beautiful and intelligent girl, so he was very pampered by his father.
Of royal birth
However, the incident happened when Yoshiko was only 4 years old. At that time, the Tan Hoi revolution broke out and the Qing dynasty collapsed, and the Republic of China was born to replace her 2, but his mother agreed to let him abdicate in exchange for keeping the whole family alive, including Prince Tuc Thien Ky’s family.
The major countries in the region also quickly take advantage of opportunities from events in China to carry out their own schemes. In it, a Japanese intelligence agent named Naniwa Kawashima came to Thien Ky to convince him to let him raise Hien Du’s daughter.
Still holding in his heart the dream of one day being able to Restoring the Qing Dynasty, Thien Ky, after many days of thinking, agreed to let Hien Du go to Japan to be Kawashima’s adopted son. It was 1915 when the little princess had just turned 8 years old.
The shock
After adopting Hien Yu Naniwa brought her back to Tokyo raised her and changed her name to Yoshiko with the surname Kawashima. Arriving in Japan is the event that marks the official start of real events for Hien Du. Because her life since coming to Japan has not been peaceful. Six years after Hien Du, now Yoshiko, came to Japan, her father passed away. Shortly after Thien Ky’s death, his wife also committed suicide.
While both her biological parents were dead, Naniwa’s stepfather began to act inappropriately with Yoshiko. At first, he only told close friends that he might marry his adopted daughter, but as time went on, Naniwa became more and more possessive of his daughter.
Even he He also showed extreme jealousy and even used violence if he saw his adopted daughter doing anything that he considered flirting with another man. Yoshiko’s dissatisfaction with her adoptive father is shown by her continuous acts of disobedience such as skipping school and causing vandalism… In addition, unlike other girls at that time, Yoshiko did not love feminine pleasures. home economics but only likes subjects martial arts like Kendo or Judo.
Yoshiko later revealed that she was raped by her adoptive father when she was just 17 years old. This shock caused her to commit suicide but not die. After that time, instead of seeking death again, Yoshiko decided to leave home. At the same time, she also cut her hair short, started dressing like a man and joined underworld in Tokyo. There are rumors that in order to have money to support herself, she dated many rich people, including men and women.
The next turning point in Yoshiko’s life took place in the year 1927 when her brother and adoptive father arranged for her to marry Ganjuurjab – son of Inner Mongolian General Jengjuurjab – in a politically calculated marriage. Agreeing to accept that marriage, Yoshiko took the Chinese name Dong Tran, meaning Pearl of the East, to facilitate life in her homeland. But the marriage only lasted 2 years and Yoshiko divorced when she was only 22 years old.
Yoshiko
Spying and its sad ending
After the divorce, Yoshiko moved to Shanghai to live in an area where many foreigners live. During this time she began participating in political activities and spying for Japanese officials. With her beautiful appearance and the reputation of a princess of the Qing Dynasty, Yoshiko can easily seduce high-ranking men to both earn money and extract secret information that the Japanese army needs to serve. plan to invade China and also contributed a lot in planning to destroy people considered stubborn by Japan.
Yoshiko was also one of the people who had great contributions in helping Japan established the puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern Japan. In 1931, with the significant support of this woman, the Japanese army staged the Manchurian incident to invade the land in northeast China.
Later, it became clear that Yoshiko still maintained contact closely with her royal family, especially her brother Pu Yi – who abdicated in 1912. Japanese officials asked her to persuade Pu Yi to agree to become the head of state to replace the new dynasty. established and called Manchukuo.
In 1934, the Japanese army officially installed Pu Yi as a puppet emperor in Manchukuo. Shortly thereafter, the Japanese army continued to form additional forces military puppet called the Manchurian National Army and gave Yoshiko the position of Commander-in-Chief, holding a team of several thousand people.
During this period, thinking that Japan’s actions were beneficial to the cause of restoring Qing, which her father Thien Ky still cherished when he passed away, Yoshiko was very active. She personally commanded a number of campaigns to suppress rebel groups fighting against the Japanese in the lands of “Manchukuo”. With those achievements and loyalty, Yoshiko was praised by the Japanese press as the Heroine of Manchukuo and became a star in Japan.
But in reality, according to many historians, her role and influence Yoshiko’s influence as a spy and general was negligible. There is even an opinion that she was actually just a sacrificial lamb used by the Japanese army to take advantage of her position as a princess of the old dynasty to incite people’s emotions. Yoshiko herself later gradually realized that the truth was that the cause of restoring the Qing Dynasty proposed by the Japanese side was actually just a cover to cover up Japan’s plot to expand power in China.
< p>That also means that Yoshiko’s actions are going against the interests of the Chinese people. Because clearly, in many different ways, she passed on many Chinese secrets to the Japanese and fought against the Chinese in Manchukuo, thereby creating conditions for Japan to advance deep into China.
When Yoshiko begins to take actions to express her opposition to the Japanese annexation and control of Manchukuo and the brutal tactics they use to suppress dissent, she becomes The character was no longer welcomed by Japan and was even almost assassinated. Disappointed about what happened, Yoshiko returned to Tianjin and opened a restaurant to earn a living, but the difficulties in her fate did not stop there.
The end of World War II was also the when it all ended for Yoshiko. At that time, Manchukuo disbanded and returned to China. Yoshiko tried to return to Japan but failed. In November 1945, she was arrested while hiding in Beijing and imprisoned for 25 years before entering a lengthy trial on charges of treason.
Lawyers Yoshiko’s defense argued that she was a Japanese national so she could not be charged with treason but was a prisoner of war and needed to be tried in an international trial. However, the court did not accept this argument and Yoshiko was eventually convicted of treason and sentenced to death.
On March 25, 1948, Yoshiko had to pay the sentence. Her final request for a secret execution was not granted. Instead she was shot from behind and her body was then exposed to the public. But there have also been rumors for a long time that Yoshiko is still alive and that the person who was executed is a fake…
According toMinh Ngoc
Vietnamese Law
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