Anantahan Island is a small island in the Mariana Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, and it is on this small island covering an area of only 33 square kilometers that a sensation occurred during World War II!
The incident occurred from 1945 to June 1951, when a Japanese woman, Kazuko Higa, and 32 men were trapped on Anatahan Island and lived together for six years. And this only woman and two pistols became the fuse of desire and killing, and the lives of 33 people exposed the evil of human nature. The event is known as the "Queen of Anantahan Island Incident." ”
Queen of Anantahan Island Incident
First foray into Anantahan Island
During World War I, Anantahan Island came under full Japanese control. After the end of World War I, Japan established Nanyang Xingfa Co., Ltd. here. During World War II, Japan promulgated a policy of going to sea to encourage young people to work on the islands seized by the war. In 1939, Kazuko Higa, a 16-year-old Japanese woman, came to the Mariana Islands from her hometown of Okinawa because she had defected to her brother. She went to Saipan first and then to Bakan. At the age of 18, she married a young Japanese man named Shoichi Higa, an employee of Nanyang Corporation that we mentioned earlier. Later, due to the needs of work, the couple moved to Anatahan Island, and Masaichi Biga was mainly responsible for supervising the work of coconut plantation workers, who were all local indigenous people, about 20 or so.
At this time, the Second World War was in full swing. But the lives of Shoichi Higa and Kazuko Higa were not affected much, as the island of Anatahan, where they were located, was very small and had escaped the onslaught of war. On this island, there is also Masami Higa's boss, Masami Hinata, who covets the beauty of Higa Kazuko, and although Higa Shoichi knows about it, he does not interfere too much. Bi Jia zhengyi went to pick up his sister on another island, but when he left, there was no news. At this time, Japan was at a disadvantage in the war, and the United States began to carry out frenzied attacks on the territory under Japanese rule, and soon the war spread to Anatahan Island.
Kazuko Higa
During an air raid, Kazuko Higa and Masami Hinoshita hid in the jungle and took their lives. The terrified two returned to the coconut plantation, only to find that it had been destroyed, that there were few supplies left, and that they had lost contact with the outside world. Thankfully, the company's previous 40 pigs and 20 chickens survived unharmed, relying on surviving livestock. Masami Hinoshibe's wife and children are on Saipan, while Higa Masato, Kazuko Higa's husband, is still missing. Coupled with the fact that Kazuko Higa and Masami Hinoshita had been ambiguous before, the two lived like a real couple in the face of the current situation.
June 1944
The couple's happy life was shattered in June 1944, when several Japanese fishing boats carrying supplies were destroyed by U.S. shells, and the people on board swam desperately to the shore, and the nearest piece of land was Anantahan Island. The surviving crew landed on the island, a total of 31 men, including 10 Japanese soldiers, and the rest were ordinary shipboard personnel. Because they were also Japanese, Kazuko Higa and Masami Hinoshita received them warmly, treating their wounds and giving them some food. The only way to get out of the island was the ship, but at that time the war was raging and the ship had been shot down.
These people can't build ships, so they can only find a way to survive on this small island, after all, they come from the same country, so at the beginning, they get along very harmoniously, and they are also a little restrained with each other. Because it was not so familiar, first grouped by ship, several people lived together; after familiarization, a collective life began.
They help each other, fetch water in large drums made of metal, fish at sea, go to the jungle to pick fruit and learn to make coconut wine among the aborigines. Gradually, everyone got used to such days, and eating things was no longer a problem, but they were very similar to primitive people. The only female, Higa Kazuko, covered her body with clothes made of tree bark, and some of the men wore clothes worn when they went to the island, which were already in tatters. There is no clothing to wear, only leaves to cover the private area.
After the safety of life is basically guaranteed, the taste of life changes.
"A Woman"
Because there was only one woman on the island, Higa Kazuko, and the rest were all young men with strong flesh and blood. The youngest is only 16 years old, so they are all salivating at Kazuko, and it is inevitable that someone will hit Kazuko's idea. To avoid conflict, an older person suggested that Kazuko Higa and Masami Hinoshibe be formally married. The other men should stop harassing Kazuko Higa. Witnessed by everyone, Kazuko Higa and Masami Hinata are married. Although the other men were somewhat unconvinced, they seemed calm on the surface.
Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the United States announced the news with a loudspeaker to get the people on the island out. But Higa kazuko and the men on the island didn't believe it, and the U.S. tried to airdrop some leaflets, but no one picked them up at all. They refused to leave Anantahan Island, and the only Japanese left on the island, the other natives had already fled. There is information: the most ridiculous thing they do at this time is to draw lots regularly: decide who Bijia and Kazuko will be their partner. But there is also a saying that after Higa and Masami Hinata married, they lived away from the group, and everyone had less intersection and less contradictions. But this harmony was soon broken,
"Two Pistols"
In August 1946, the wreckage of a fallen U.S. military plane drifted to Anatahan Island, and Kazuko Higa picked up the parachute cloth and took it back to make clothes for herself. While also dressing as many others as possible, the men also picked up 5 pistols and 70 rounds of ammunition. One of these men knew guns better, repaired two of them, took one of them, and gave the other one to someone who had a better relationship with him. Since then, the status of these two men has increased sharply: on such a desert island, with a pistol, there is the right to decide the life and death of others. Both law and morality are things that no longer exist.
At the same time, these two men (whose specific names are unverifiable, we tentatively set A and B) began to live with Higa kazuko and his wife, and as Higa kazuko's righteous husband, Hinata Masami was uncomfortable, which no man could tolerate. But he chose to quit, and the life of "one wife and three husbands" was reduced to "one wife and two husbands".
Not long after, a strange thing happened on the island, a man fell from a tree and fell to his death. The two people closest to the scene of the incident were the two people who owned the pistol, and the relationship between these two people and the man who fell to his death was very bad. No one knows, but the two of them are indeed questionable.
After a few months, A and B became each other's eyesore. Two men with guns clashed: A killed B, and the surviving A had two pistols. At this time, the people on the island were facing security threats, including Masami Hinoshita. Because of this, he gave in again, "willingly" letting Higa Kazuko out.
A, who owns two pistols, becomes the ruler of the island, and he ignores the others, and over time he is bound to be resented by others. Sure enough, one day A was assassinated, but everyone said that A fell into the sea while fishing and drowned. Was this an accident? Or did someone deliberately do it? No one can say for sure. The two pistols went back to Masami Hinoshibe and a man named Iwai. These two men live with Higa kazuko, and it is impossible for two men and a woman to live without conflict. Just over a month later, Masami Hinoshita was shot dead. Iwai became the only person on the island to possess two pistols, and his happy life with Higa Kazuko lasted two years and was shot.
After this, a lot of strange things happened on the island: every once in a while a man died by accident. It may be poisoned, it may fall off a cliff and fall to death, or it may suddenly disappear without a trace, and there is no one alive, and there is no corpse. Although it is not clear, everyone can guess one or two: basically related to the two pistols and Higa Kazuko, after all, there is only one woman on the island, Higa Kazuko, and he is the target of all men!
Seeing the panic of the people on the island, the older man offered an opinion: Let Higa Kazuko choose the person she likes and live well. Others must sincerely send blessings and can no longer think differently. In addition, the two pistols should be thrown into the sea to avoid another vicious incident on the island. I thought that after this, the days would return to calm, but in fact, I did not. Although the gun that symbolizes power is gone, and Kazuko lives with the people he loves, the dispute over power has spread to everyone here, and theoretically there will never be a return to that peaceful environment. So, in the time that followed, there were still several men who died one after another. The 33 men lived on the island for several years, and in the end only 19 men and One Woman, Higa Kazuko, were left.
Later, the men discussed together that if there was no effective way, if they continued like this, they did not know who would be the next to die, and in the end they agreed that the root cause was still Higa Kazuko, so they decided to kill Higa Kazuko! So that others can survive. There will be no more strife, they have fought for a woman, but in the end, in the face of women and survival, these men decisively choose the latter.
That night, a man who likes Kazuko comes to Higa Kazuko's house and tells her the beginning and end of the matter, telling her to escape quickly. Shocked by this, Higa and Kazuko fled into the jungle overnight, where she lived for 33 days. The hardships can be imagined, because he is afraid of being discovered, he does not even dare to use fire.
Escape day
In June 1950, an American ship approached Anantahan Island. The men on the island thought they were still in the middle of a war because they had no contact with the outside world, so they all hid after seeing the American ships. Kazuko Higa saw the ship at sea and felt hope. If you continue to stay on the island, you are doomed to have no good end, and there is still a glimmer of life to escape. So she climbed to one of the tallest trees, waving a parachute cloth in her hand, and shouting loudly to attract the attention of the people on board.
After Kazuko Higa was rescued, he returned to Japan, where he told the Japanese about what had happened on the island. The families of the men on the island learned of this, and they sent more than 200 letters to the island, and many Japanese newspapers to the island. The U.S. military used a loudspeaker to shout at the people on the island that the war was over. Japan has surrendered unconditionally, but the people on the island still do not believe all this, they think it is a ruse of the US military. In their minds, "mighty Japan" could not have been defeated at all.
The year after Kazuko Biga left Anatahan Island, one of these men surrendered. For he found a very special letter in the letters sent to the island in the United States: he recognized it as a special handmade unique to his wife. After he left the island, he urged the people on the island to surrender quickly, saying that the news that everyone had heard before was actually true. Half a month later, all the people on the island surrendered and were rescued by the American army.
What a survivor rescue photo
These people flew back to Japan, and many Japanese came to the airport to see them just to confirm the truth of the incident. Funny enough, when these people were interviewed, some of them still had their own portraits in their hands. Because they have lost contact for many years, the family thinks that they have died in the fires of war and have long since given up any hope. Because over the years on the island, a lot of things have changed: Higa Kazuko's original match, Higa Masamune, returned to Japan early in the morning, and Higa Masaichi thought that Higa Kazuko had died in the war, so he married other women, had a happy little family, and could not continue the frontier with Higa Kazuko.
Something similar didn't just happen to Higa kazuko, other men had the same experience. There was a man whose original wife married his brother and had children. After the man returned to Japan, the family finally decided after discussion: the wife and the original husband continued to live together, and the child born to the younger brother was still living in the family as the adopted son of the two people.
Originally, there were 31 men on the island, but there were 32 people counting Masami Hinoshita. There were only 19 people left, so the public couldn't help but wonder how these people died. What's really going on on the island? Because there was no communication before, when asked about these things, the men's answers were varied, saying anything. Later, under pressure, they had to tell everyone what was happening on the island. As a result, the killing of a woman was finally known to everyone.
"Queen Radiance"
After this incident became public, it caused a sensation throughout Japan. It was soon adapted into the movie "This is the Truth About Anantahan Island", interestingly, in order to restore the authenticity of the story, the filmmakers invited Kazuko Higa herself to play the main role of the film. Since then, all the contradictions have pointed to Higa Kazuko. Some called her "the woman with 32 heads" and some called her "Queen of Anatahan Island," all of which revealed contempt and contempt. In fact, Kazuko Higa was also a victim throughout the incident; under the circumstances of the time, in order to survive, he had to deal with these men, and later, what happened on the island was adapted into the movie Anantahan. Jolin Tsai's song "You Have Today" is also based on this event.
This is the truth movie of Anantahan Island
Movie "Anantahan"
Few people sympathized with Higa Kazuko's plight, and the public opinion at the time only insisted that he be associated with the death of those men. If you think about it sensibly, you can't rule out the occurrence of some vicious events caused by the fight for Higa and Kazuko, but on such a desert island that lacks medical treatment and medicine, and the jungle is dense. It's not uncommon to die by accident. After Returning to her hometown of Okinawa, Higa did not remarry until she was 34 years old, and lived a short and harmonious and happy married life before her husband died of illness at the age of 40, and died of a brain tumor at the age of 51. As a woman, many people do not sympathize with her, but throw her very insulting words such as ridicule, ridicule, and shame, which is a great pressure for a woman.
The so-called harmony is the product of the satisfaction of basic human needs, and if the basic needs are not met, there is no harmony and calm at all.