General Nie Rongzhen and an Eight Route Army soldier feed four-year-old Mehoko in August 1940
CRIOnline: "Little Japanese Girl" Mehoko Starts Thanksgiving China Journey
A Japanese woman called Wednesday for an everlasting Sino-Japanese friendship and hoped the wartime tragedies would never recur, when she arrived in Beijing on her thanksgiving journey...The sixty-nine years old Mehoko, a Japanese native, was saved in August 1940 by a Chinese army general during the severe battles against Japanese troops in northern China's Hebei Province. Marshal Nie Rongzhen...recalled the unforgettable memory of saving the Japanese orphan whose parents died on the battleground. He said that the Chinese army took good care of the girl, with breast-feeding from local women farmers. Then the general asked several local farmers to carry, in turns, the little Japanese girl in the basket to the rival Japanese imperialist army camp, about 170 kilometers away...more...
