A Study On The Ideological Transformation Of The Japanese War Criminals And Its Puppet Members By The Chinese Communist Party

War is a heavy topic in the history of human development.Prisoners of war come into being with the application of war.During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression,the communist party of China always adhere to the general policy of "treating prisoners of war",implements the humanitarian of prisoners,always be wounded to make a diagnosis and give treatment,unwilling to yield to extend the trip,is willing to join the communist party’s forces or thoughts still have doubts,transformation of thought,That is,through the study of the Chinese Communist Party,socialism related theories,to understand the international situation,analysis and understanding of the nature of war aggression.Most of the prisoners changed their minds and some joined the Chinese Communist Party.During the War of Liberation,the Chinese Communist Party insisted on the strategy of "fighting for" when facing the Kuomintang prisoners of war.Around the founding of the People’s Republic of China,the Communist Party of China arrested a number of Japanese war criminals.From July to August 1950,China received another batch of Japanese war criminals from the Soviet Union.By drawing lessons from the previous experience of reforming prisoners of war,the Communist Party of China adopted humanitarian treatment for the above-mentioned war criminals,combined with reform through labor and social education,and reformed their ideology.Subsequently,the Communist Party of China intensively investigated and tried the pseudo-war criminals in Japanese custody in separate places,making the vast majority of war criminals sincerely confess their guilt and repent.In the end,except for 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried,the rest were released to China in three batches.Domestic pseudo war criminals were pardoned in seven batches starting from1959 on the basis of their attitude of confessing their crimes and whether they sincerely regret their crimes.Under the guidance of Marx and Engels’ theory of "man can transform man" and Mao Zedong’s theory of "man can be transformed",this paper uses psychology,law and history knowledge,combined with literature analysis method,cross-study method and other disciplinary research methods.System research of the communist party of China on the day the war criminals receive,humanitarian treatment,labor,social education,ideological transformation,the investigating judge,to summarize the successful experience of the communist party of China on the day the war criminals transform and lessons,explore the general rule of war criminals transform and applicable law,to provide reference for the reform of prisoners,for the present.Specifically,the paper is divided into six chapters:Chapter one is the introduction.This paper mainly introduces the basis of the topic selection and its significance,analyzes the research status at home and abroad,and points out the research ideas and methods,innovations and shortcomings.The second chapter is the theoretical and practical basis for the Chinese Communist Party to reform the Japanese war criminals.This part first introduces Marx,Engels,Mao Zedong and other relevant theories about the transformation of "human".Then it discusses the practical basis of the Chinese Communist party’s reform of the Japanese war criminals,that is,the reform of prisoners especially prisoners of war during the Anti-Japanese War and the War of liberation.Finally,the author expounds that the newly established Communist Party of China has the ability,determination and conditions to complete the reform of war criminals,that is,it has the realistic conditions to reform the Japanese war criminals.The third chapter is the acceptance of war criminals.The living conditions of the Japanese war criminals in the Soviet Union,the nature of the war criminals,and the development of the international situation promoted the negotiation between China and the Soviet Union on the reception of war criminals,and the negotiation content mainly included the reception time,place,way,personnel,etc.The Chinese side has done preliminary work for the proper settlement of war criminals by carefully selecting the site,renovating the administrative offices,staffing relevant staff and formulating discipline regulations in a scientific way.After receiving the war criminals to register their basic information,thus constitutes the Communist Party of China’s initial understanding of war criminals.The fourth chapter is the reform of war criminals by the Communist Party of China,which is the main part of the thesis.The reform of war criminals mainly includes humanitarian treatment,ideological reform,labor reform,social education and so on.Humanitarian treatment is not only a consistent policy of the Communist Party of China against the enemy,but also one of the measures to reform the war criminals,which has been implemented throughout by the Communist Party of China to reform the Japanese war criminals.Humanitarian treatment includes the provision of a suitable place to live,a good diet,regular medical check-ups and preventive treatment,extensive recreational activities,and open communication and meetings with relatives and friends.At the same time,it will respect the personality,customs and personal beliefs of war criminals and humanitarian treatment,fully embodies the Chinese Communist party’s humanitarian reform of the Japanese war criminals.The ideological reform of the Chinese Communist Party to the Japanese puppet war criminals section first analyzes the difficulties in the ideological reform of the Japanese puppet war criminals,that is,the Japanese war criminals "bushido" spirit residue,the old Japanese militarism thought.The toxin of the feudal old system in the thought of pseudo war criminals and the ideology of narrow nationalism take root.Subsequently,in view of the ideological problems of the Japanese puppet war criminals,the Chinese Communist Party scientific combination of reform,according to the situation of the rich reform content,the Japanese puppet war criminals in stages,stratified patient reform,finally achieved the victory of ideological reform.Because of the necessity and usefulness of reforming war criminals through labor,the Communist Party of China carried out various forms of reforming war criminals through labor.At the same time,the Japanese puppet war criminals urgently needed to combine their years of theoretical study with practice,so the Communist Party of China re-educated them with social examples and organized war criminals to visit all over the country,including factories,schools,cooperatives,museums,etc.,so that war criminals confessed and regretted their crimes one after another.Chapter five is the trial and leniency of the Chinese Communist Party to the Japanese war criminals.Before the formal trial of the war criminals,the CPC conducted intensive investigation and interrogation of the pseudo-war criminals in custody step by step,assigned special personnel to conduct classified investigation,and finally reviewed the case in accordance with the law.On the basis of full investigation,the Communist Party of China prosecuted 45 Japanese war criminals for their serious crimes,and released the rest of them in three batches who were good at confessing their crimes and genuinely repentant.Pseudo war criminals were released in seven batches and given leniency.The sixth chapter is the effectiveness,experience and historical significance of the Communist Party of China to reform Japanese puppet war criminals.On the whole,the Chinese Communist Party’s reform of the Japanese war criminals has achieved remarkable results.Humanitarian treatment,ideological reform,labor reform and social education have touched the thought of the Japanese war criminals.For the Chinese communist party summarizes successful experience in reforming criminals,at the same time points out that the successful transformation of the communist party of China puppet army war criminals in promoting friendly exchanges between China and Japan and the world peace and enhance the international image of China,complete the legal system of new China and historical significance,provides the reference for the development of contemporary Chinese history of the rule of law.