Yamaguchi County, Japan, is located in the western part of the archipelago, surrounded by the sea on three sides and looking at Korea across the sea. It is easier to accept the impact of foreign civilizations than other places.
At the end of the shogunate, this place is opposed to seclusion, and the times are brewing changes. This place was once the "place of fetal movement" for the Meiji Restoration.
Since the implementation of the cabinet system in 1885, Japan has given birth to more than 60 prime ministers, 9 of whom are from Yamaguchi Prefecture. This shows that their political genes are strong.
The sturdy and active Yamaguchi County is not only rich in prime ministers, but also "monsters". This is why Kishisuke was the "monster of Manchuria" during the invasion of China.
The demon of Manchuria, why is it a demon?
What did he do in China?
How did you counterattack the Prime Minister after the war?
The most surprising thing is, why is there an erotic image engraved on his family's ancestral saber?
Feichun Reading Biography Today I will talk about his brief history.
1. Marriage between close relatives
There are no shortage of grassroots dragon kings in the world, but history tells us that after the powerful, it is easier to succeed.
The Kishi family in Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, has been a landlord for generations and has a distinguished family. It is said that if you go out of your house to a nearby station, you don't have to step on other people's land for 2 kilometers.
In the 1890s, the 18-year-old Kishihide Hidesuke, the young master of the Kishi family, joined the well-known local gentry, the Sato family, and married the 14-year-old daughter of the Sato family. He inherited the wine business and became the elderly son-in-law of Sato's father-in-law.
After entering the family, he and his wife gave birth to 3 boys, 7 girls and 10 children for their father-in-law. Among them, the second boy was Kishisuke.
At that time, he also followed his mother's surname and was called Sato Shinsuke.
Later, due to changes in the Kishi family, after discussing with the Sato family, he asked for Sato Shinsuke back, and passed to his biological father’s brother, which is Kishi Shinsuke’s uncle’s house.
So, he changed back to Kishi's surname, called Kishi Nosuke.
At this time, he is in middle school. The uncle's family had no boys, only a 10-year-old daughter. This girl later became his wife.
is equivalent to saying that his marriage is also a parent and close relative.
It seems that being rich does not always make ghosts grind. In the matter of inheritance, the rich and the poor have uncontrollable worries.
The twists and turns of life experience did not affect Kishisuke's studies.
At the age of 24, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Imperial University with honours, but unexpectedly chose to work in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.
It is said that this is the default.
The following year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce was divided into two. He took the opportunity to transform and naturally entered the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
2. Single go to Manchuria
From college to entering Manchuria in 1936, Kishi Shinsuke spent 16 years in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. In addition to deep integration with the business chaebols, he also joined the army fanatics. Fighting fiercely.
He inherited the ideas of fascist theorists Kita Ikki and Okawa Zhouming, and he fanatically believed in "Manchuria is the lifeline of Japan".
He regarded the Puppet Manchukuo as an economic zone in Japan, saying: "The Manchurian problem is the biggest problem in Japan's history. We must be brave and decisive and take it seriously."
The Puppet Manchukuo has just been established, and the future is uncertain. Japanese political circles are not optimistic. They think it is a "relegation place" for official careers and a place of exile for officials. Whoever goes there is tantamount to "a dangerous gamble."
满洲
But Kishi Shinsuke believes that going to Manchuria is not "to write down the tragic history of Manchuria in my own life", but a good place to show off his talents.
Not only did he encourage the people of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to "start a business", he also sent many spies to the Manchukuo to collect information.
So everyone said, "In Tokyo, no bureaucracy can be as accurate as Kishi NosukeGrasp Manchu knowledge and intelligence. "
In fact, regardless of military and political circles, Kishi Nobusuke is recognized by everyone as the best candidate to go to the Puppet Manchukuo.
The young officers of the Army Province and the Army Staff Headquarters also praised him. "Clean office, quick-headed, rigorous thinking, fast as a razor" goes.
crowned with a lot of high-sounding words, nothing more than letting him go out as soon as possible.
September 17, 1936, he He simply took the initiative to submit his resignation and gave up his position as the director of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and asked for a single person to Manchuria.
This is the second unexpected choice in his life. The first time was that a law graduate did not follow legal affairs and went to Manchuria. Students are not optimistic about the agricultural and commercial province. This time I went to the Puppet Manchukuo where no one dared to go.
Behind it, there is another opportunity that mortals can hardly see through?
Manchuria
3. Manchu Disaster
In fact, this opportunity is not a real opportunity. If you want to let it die, let it go crazy. In the dark waves of militarism and the expansion of China, in October of that year, He was sent to Northeast China to serve as the deputy head of the Industrial Department of the Puppet Manchukuo State.
This year, he was 40 years old and became a vanguard of the militarist fanatics who invaded China.
He arrived. Here was the first Japanese official who took economic control as the "blueprint" for the invasion of China, and later became the highest person in charge of the Puppet Manchukuo economy.
满洲
Why did history choose him?
The first is the government background, the second is the military background, and the third is the chaebol background.
Needless to say, the 16-year resume of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Seizo Yusue, who was the Deputy Chief of the Army Staff Headquarters, revealed after the war, "Before the shore went to Manchuria, it had already penetrated into the army quite thoroughly. "
For the collusion of chaebols, after he reached the Puppet Manchukuo, he brought a domestic tycoon to invest in Manchuria. This tycoon was the Japanese industrial company of Ayukawa Yoshisuke.
is based on the company. To start, Kishi Nobuyuki planned to establish Manchuria Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., integrating raw material industrial production and precision manufacturing.
To put it bluntly, it is to dig my iron ore, seize my rare metals, and manufacture cars and airplanes to support the war of aggression. Large enterprise, the largest local monopolistic enterprise.
In Manchuria, Kishi Shinsuke’s greatest misfortune was to imitate the Soviet Union and introduced the “Five-Year Plan for Heavy Industry Production”.
This plan stated that within 5 years, Japan will Manchuria invested 2.7 billion yen. In fact, it later increased to 7 billion yen.
满洲
This plan takes the control economy as the baseline and opens up and plunders the natural resources of Northeast China. Integrate and unified production, involving 13 departments such as ordnance, aircraft, automobiles, steel, fuel, coal, electric power, shipbuilding, etc.
This plan was introduced in May 1937. Also announced at the same time was the "Law on the Control of Important Industries." .
This law regulates economic production in the form of law, clearly stipulating the system, procedures, and powers, so as to achieve the purpose of "(pseudo) Manchuria serving Japan’s economic interests" for many years.
岸信介’s arrogant work in Manchuria cannot be replaced by someone else. His background is so profound that even the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Seishiro Itagaki, had to give him three points.
The first day the report arrived, he was straightforward. Itagaki said, "I didn't come to Manchuria because I couldn't stay in the Japanese government." Your Kwantung Army is responsible for public security and economic affairs. I will do it.
When he said this, he took out a letter. A mysterious letter of recommendation from an important military officer. This character is the director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Army, Anan Keiji.
Therefore, with the support of the military, Kishi Nobuyuki dared to be completely presumptuous in the Puppet Manchukuo and traveled through Kanto with ease. Between the army, the Puppet Manchukuo government and the chaebol enterprises, they became the actual highest person in charge of the Puppet Manchukuo economy.
满洲
4. The demon is the demon
The scheming and daring Kishi Shinsuke not only overturned the clouds and rained in Manchuria's economic plunder, but also had an extremely unruly private life.
He has his wife and family in Manchuria, but he never takes his wife when he travels.
circulated in the circle, this person is drinking daily, singing every night, food and sex are his every night indispensable programs, and the abnormality is shocking.
He has a weird temperament, self-contained, spends money like water, life is sloppy, moody, and elusive.
In addition, he looks very good, with big buck teeth and a loofah face, as thin as a dead bird, which makes him unable to withstand analysis.
Because of this, a well-known nickname circulated in the circle: "The Demon of Manchuria".
The former is the shore Xinsuke
The so-called monster, the face is hideous, the evil power is boundless, the ghost is out, and the inhumanity is also.
The demon can rule a party because there is a bigger demon backing it.
The demon can spend so much because the people's livelihood and wealth provide it for nourishment.
Kishi Shinsuke's way to squeeze the people of Manchuria, in addition to the industrial economy, there is a more evil method: opium.
has been operating in Manchuria for 3 years. Kishi Nobusuke collaborated with Japanese and British businessmen to directly participate in the opium smuggling trade.
He once brought tons of opium and gold to Shanghai to conduct activities with the Japanese invaders.
personally presided over the specific plan for planting opium on my fertile northeast land. The income from these opium became the second largest source of revenue after the tariffs.
Post-war Tokyo trial prosecutors recorded that in 1939 alone, the sales of opium by the Manchukuo reached 90.9 million yen.
And a large part of this money was transferred to military production, which became the military expense of Japan's expansion of aggression, realizing the sinister purpose of fighting to support war.
This is also the reason why his private life is sloppy, "a single phone call can transfer several million yuan".
After Japan's surrender, Kishi Nobusuke escaped the trial with the support of the United States, and soon became prime minister. He remained demonized and opposed China for life. This is something later.
Nosuke Kishi, 1896-1987
五、Saber Legend
Finally, I will say a scene:
In 2015, I was concerned when the 70th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War The department held an exhibition of cultural relics against China at Beijing No. 5 Middle School.
The cultural relics on display include bonds, stocks, military tickets issued during the Japanese invasion of China, and 108 sabers enshrined by Kenji Doihara’s family.
The most eye-catching spot on the scene is Kishi Nobusuke’s family saber, with a lifelike erotic image carved on the scabbard.
Erotica is a popular ukiyo-e culture in Japan. It is not uncommon on utensils, fans and other personal items, but it appears on Kishisuke’s saber , But also surprised the visitors.
Among the on-site visitors, there are many middle school students. These Ukiyo-e paintings surprised, embarrassed and puzzled them.
Perhaps, this is also a comment on a demon being a demon.
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References:
Kishi Nobuyuki et al. "Sixty Years of Officialdom and Politics: Kishi Nobusuke Huiyilu" (Commercial Press 1981 Edition)
Jiang Feng "Jiang Feng Looks at Japan" Shanghai Jiaotong University Press 2016 Edition
