The left side of the correlation diagram shows the names of leading communist spies acting on the secret orders of Mao Zedong and the command structure, and the right side shows the names of Japanese organizations and individuals who were in contact with the Communist spies. Let us start by examining the spy correlation diagram entitled “Conspiracy between Communist Spies and the Japanese Army” shown below. I would like to give an outline of my book in this paper from the objective standpoint of “looking squarely at the history” of mankind. As a consequence, many Chinese people outside mainland China came to know about my book. Hearing about my book, a reporter from the UK’s BBC Zhongwen (Chinese) interviewed me and uploaded an article to the BBC Zhongwen website as a Christmas present on December 25. This resulted in the publication of my book Mao Zedong: The Man Who Conspired with the Japanese Army (Shincho Shinsho) in November 2015. To fill in the gaps, I scraped together evidence that corresponds to primary Japanese sources as much as possible and corroborates the analysis of Xie You-tian. This book was written based on truly admirable detailed examination, but unfortunately there were no conclusive Japanese sources. On this theme, Xie You-tian, who, after studying at the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, became a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in the United States, wrote The Communist in China’s War Against Japan (1931–1945) (Mirror Books) in 2002, explaining how the Communists grew stronger and telling the hidden truth about China’s war against Japan. This paper compares and contrasts Japanese sources, such as Memories of Shanghai, the memoir of Iwai Eiichi, and Chinese sources to examine questions such as “what did Mao Zedong do during the Sino-Japanese War?” and “how did the CPC forces grow stronger?” Mao Zedong sent Communist spies to make direct contact with the Japanese army, even going as far as to propose a truce between the CPC forces and the Japanese army.
He planted communist spies such as Pan Hannian in the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s local agency Maison Iwai and sold KMT military intelligence obtained from the National Government in Chongqing through the KMT-CPC Cooperation to the Japanese at a high price, creating an environment in which it was easy for the Japanese military to deal blows to the KMT forces. On the contrary, during the Sino-Japanese War, Mao Zedong concentrated his efforts on conspiring with the Japanese army to weaken the KMT forces. Also, the myth that CPC forces fought valiantly with the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese War is untrue. Accordingly, the PRC’s claim that the PRC is a state created by defeating the invading Japanese army is factually incorrect. During this four-year period, the KMT and the CPC waged a fierce civil war. The proof of this is that Japan announced defeat on 15 August 1945, but it was 1 October 1949 that the PRC was founded. It should be noted, however, that the PRC is a state that was ultimately created through victory in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) forces led by Chiang Kai-shek and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China (CPC) and is not by any means a state created by defeating the Japanese Army in the Sino-Japanese War. If we focus attention on this achievement alone, Mao Zedong can be described as “a man of great stature” who deserves to be respected.
The achievement of Mao Zedong as founding father of the PRC is, indeed, great. On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). ENDO Homare, Director, Center of International Relations, Tokyo University of Social Welfare, Professor Emeritus, University of Tsukuba
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