The Study Of Chinese Labours In Japanes' Copper Mine Of BieZi During The Second World War

During World War II ,from 1943 to 1945 about 40,000 Chinese laborers, prisoners of war and common people, were taken to Japan as slaves. They were hard driven there, digging mines, caves, loading and unloading trucks and ships, making canals and roads, building power stations and airports, and doing all kinds of these things. 6,830 of them died from hard work and 6,778 were disabled. Among these 40,000 Chinese, 681 were taken to Bie-zi Copper-mine in Shikoku of Japan. In two years time, 200 of them died from ill treatment and the survivals suffered from not only disability, but also discrimination in the remainder of their lives. Though the war had finished 50 years before, and many of these survivals passed away, it is necessary and important for us to save this history.On the basis of investigating the survivals of Bie-zi Copper-mine, studying the related Japanese documents and research fruits of predecessors, Author discloses the truth of this historic incident. First it analyzes the historic background of plundering Chinese laborers, demonstrates the forming reason and process of two Japanese documents about plundering Chinese laborers. In the second part it describes the means by which Japanese militarists plundered Chinese laborers, miserable situations they had suffered on their way to Japan. In the third part, it mainly expounds how the Japanese authorities guarded the Chinese laborers of Bie-zi Copper-mine by all sorts of means. Through contrast between documents from Japan and memory of survivals, it discusses Chinese laborers' fundamental living conditions about food, clothes and dwelling. The forth part mainly observes torments that laborers suffered. It unmasks the sham and fraud of The Statement of Japanese Foreign Minister and exposes the lie that after World War II Japanese enterprises' deficit was due to using Chinese laborers. In the fifth part it focuses on the survivals' today's life and all kinds of difficulties they face in getting compensation. Finally it calls on Japanese government to take on its own responsibility to solve these historic questions, considering Japanese and Chinese long profit.