The Awaken Alliance's Review During The Anti-Japanese War Period

In the anti-Japanese War period, on the impact and inspiration of policies of the Chinese Communist Party in the united front policy, many captured Japanese soldiers and junior officers' world outlook, with the Chinese people in the progressive exchanges and contacts, especially in education and the help of the Communist Party of China, has undergone fundamental changes. They are set up anti-war organizations with the visiting Japanese, companying with the Chinese nation's War of Resistance against Japan, conducting anti-war campaign, and fighting against Japanese Fascism for China and Japan national liberation struggle. The Alliance of Awakening was the first anti-war organization established by staying-in-China Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War period in this context It only existed in the anti-Japanese base areas ruled by the Eighth Route Army. Studying its establishment and activities of this organization, and its role and function, particularly its status and influence in the anti-war organization, we not only can understand its special places as an independent anti-war organizations founded in China and we also can general picture sketching the development of the anti-war organizations established by some staying-in-china Japanese. This article embarks by the anti-war organization's angle of view studying Japanese's anti-war activity, took awaken the alliance as the main axle, introduced its relation with the anti-war union, the relations between anti-war organization and the Eighth Route Army, New Fourth Army, and also discussed the process of transformable thoughts of the anti-war organization members and its real point of view of the anti-war activity. In this organization, the Japanese soldiers and the Chinese people have formed the anti-Japanese national united front during the war. It is a vivid behavior for the friendship and unity of the Chinese and Japanese people and a bright chapter in the history of Sino-Japanese relation that some Japanese soldiers united with the Chinese people as uniform line during the war.