Source: Buyidao
"I agree and oppose the views of
brother
He whispered
Tojo is great after all."
This is a short song written by a Sapporo man in 1949, four years after Japan's defeat.
In other words, just one year after the trial in Tokyo ended, Japanese public opinion moved from revealing war crimes to sympathy for war criminals.
The wills, letters of home, etc. of the executed war criminals were collected and published, showing them as complex and sensitive individuals, but consciously ignoring their war crimes.
The end result is that most Japanese no longer remember the crimes committed by the "locust army" but remember these most shameful criminals. Such evil consequences as
are still legacy.
Today, 90 years after the September 18th Incident, the Japanese authorities used Diaoyu Islands as a fulcrum to incite the people toward China, advocated the so-called "China invasion", exaggerated "Taiwan has something to do, Japan has something to do", and expanded the military and prepared for war against China...
Although Hideki Tojo has long withdrawn from the stage of history, the militarist ghost is still active in today's Japanese society in another form.
"Lifeline"
Japanese Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo in an exclusive interview broadcast by CNN on September 16, saying, "What happened in Taiwan is directly related to Japan."
The so-called reason he gave is that Taiwan is in Japan's "energy lifeline" position, "90% of Japan's energy is imported through the surrounding areas of Taiwan."
similar rhetoric, Kishi Nobuo mentioned this year in interviews with the Financial Times, Bloomberg , Sydney Morning Herald , etc.
Japan's "Daily Economy" also published an exclusive interview with Nobuo on the other side of the strait on the 7th. This time, Nobuo Kishi puts the response measures on the table: "The current security environment in Japan is getting more and more severe, and Japan has no time to hesitate." "China's military strength is increasing, and Japan is exploring its ability to attack the enemy."
In addition to Nobuo Kishi, other senior government officials have also frequently spoke out on the Taiwan issue.
Japanese Ministry of Defense Second-in-command, Zhongshan Taixiu, not only openly calls Taiwan a "country", he also claims that Taiwan is very close to Japan, just like the tip of the nose to the mouth, so Japan will regard Taiwan's peace and stability as its own business.
Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Aso Taro declared that if a "major problem" occurs, Japan and the United States will "have to jointly defend Taiwan."
This ambiguous statement of "If Taiwan has something to do, Japan has something to do" is very similar to the argument that 90 years ago that Northeast China was openly promoted as "relevant to Japan's survival" and "is Japan's lifeline". After the Russo-Japanese War , Japan included most parts of Northeast China into its sphere of influence. But around 1930, things changed.
Due to the impact of 1929 world economic crisis , the prices of agricultural products in Northeast China plummeted, and Japan's dominance in the economic dominance of Northeast China was shaken. At the same time, China's national movement against imperialism is booming, refusing Japan to build new railway lines.
This series of so-called " Manchuria and Mongolian issue " in Japan has frequently appeared in Japanese media since the end of 1930. Coupled with the "Manchuria and Mongolian special regional theory" deliberately exaggerated by politicians, the Japanese people's sense of crisis was deliberately incited.
Ishihara Kanir , who planned the September 18th Incident, advocated that Japan and the United States would surely go to war, and the early occupation of Northeast China is "Japan's only way to live."
describes the territory of other countries as its own "lifeline" and takes the opportunity to exaggerate the threat of war. Japan seems to want to repeat such a shameless routine today.
"China Invasion"
Also in CNN's exclusive interview, Nobuo Kishi also made a "very rare statement" on the Diaoyu Islands issue.
He actually claimed that on the issue of Diaoyu Islands, "Japan has no territorial disputes with other countries"; the Diaoyu Islands "required Japanese territory" and "should be defended as territory." How to protect
?
Nobuo Kishi emphasized that "tit-for-tat" and "ship-to-ship-to-ship".
Diaoyu Islands and their affiliated islands are China's inherent territory, which is undoubtedly true.
However, after Japan unilaterally "nationalized" the Diaoyu Islands in 2012, the Diaoyu Islands became the fulcrum for Tokyo to incite people's anti-China sentiment, and even used extremely inflammatory extreme words.
"China Invasion".
This is not only a propaganda by the right-wing media, but also from the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
It claimed that as of the end of August, Chinese coast guard ships "entered Japanese territorial waters, or 12 nautical miles of Japanese land" a total of 88 times this year. And in , the contiguous area of , "China has invaded 851 times."
In the past decade, irritating words like "China invasion" have frequently appeared in Japanese public opinion.
Sankei Shimbun Vice President Sasaki even raised an incredible question in his book "Japan Resurrection: Repelling China's "Silent Invasion"" published in 2019: "Will Japan become China's "autonomous region" because of its 'silent invasion' without using force, disappearing from the world map?"
Since the September 18th Incident has been 90 years, and World War II has ended for 76 years.
Most Japanese people have a history dialogue with after 1945, and few of them will connect the wars of the past with the present Japan. The history of war is far away from them, and the "Chinese invasion" is close to us, so most Japanese are naturally prone to inciting hostility to China.
This is not surprising, why the Japanese people’s favorability towards China has only been around 10% in recent years.
90 years ago, there was also a wave of anti-China national sentiment in Japan.
Sino-Japanese War . After the Russo-Japanese War, many Japanese believe in the bones that the "Manchuria and Mongolian region" is a "sacred land" obtained by the Japanese with a large amount of money and countless personnel sacrifices.
Therefore, the media has been constantly exaggerating the so-called "Manchuria and Mongolia crisis", and the illegal espionage incident of the Japanese army was distorted and promoted as "suppressing Japan" and "insulting Japan". Politicians and bureaucrats took the opportunity to warn Japan's right to survive in "Manchuria and Mongolia" "will collapse", resulting in the public accusing the government of "weak diplomacy" towards China.
Anti-China trend has repeatedly set off in Japan.
The news reports and the gradually popularized broadcasts at that time all included many narratives that beautified militarism, and the atmosphere of using martial arts to China became increasingly strong. Extreme right-wing elements cut their skin, painted them with blood into sun flags, and hung them in front of the shrine to clamor for war.
is like this, through unilateral information indoctrination and brainwashing, and demonizing China with extreme vocabulary, in order to mobilize Japanese public opinion to fight against China, it has become a proven method for domestic public opinion that Japan has been tried and done.
"War Preparation"
Ordinary Conference " in 1927, the "continental policy" of "invading China and conquering the world" was officially formed. Its content particularly emphasizes that if the turmoil spreads to the "Manchuria and Mongolia" region, Japan's special status and rights will be in danger of infringement, and Japan must take decisive self-defense measures at that time.
This indicates that the September 18th Incident will inevitably happen sooner or later. The domestic and foreign economic crisis faced by Japan around 1931 became the fuse.
In March 1927, a financial crisis occurred in Japan, which had just entered the Showa era.
The earthquake-related bills closely related to the Kanto earthquake disaster victims have unsettled bad bills, which are backlogged in private banks, causing the bank's operating conditions to deteriorate. After this issue was made public, the run spread rapidly across the country. Finally, the government took action to temporarily calm the storm.
Two years later, an economic crisis swept the capitalist world broke out, and European and American countries were unable to take care of themselves. The Soviet Union was committed to its first five-year plan. Japan wanted to take the opportunity to launch a larger-scale war of aggression in Northeast China, and then realize the imperial dream from "conquering Manchuria and Mongolia" to "conquering China" and then to "conquering the world".
Japanese Kanto Army frequently creates trouble in Northeast China, planning the Huanggutun incident, creating the Wanbaoshan incident and the Nakamura incident, and conducting continuous military exercises. So when Japan actually launched an offensive on September 18, many Chinese people mistakenly thought that Kanto Army was still conducting exercises.
Today's Japanese society is trapped in the fifth wave of the epidemic. Economic activities are restricted, employment environment deteriorates, income continues to decline, private consumption is difficult to grow strongly, and the prospects for economic recovery are not optimistic.
At the same time, the Japanese government's impulse to expand its military preparations is very explicit. Although it is not as far as it did 90 years ago, this tendency is quite dangerous.
The Japanese government is revising the latest five-year "Medium-term Defense Force Preparation Plan" for the 2019-2023 period.
This plan is responsible for determining the total defense expenditure in Japan and the number of necessary defense equipment in the next five years. It is expected to increase the total defense budget and speed up the preparation process to cope with the "realizingly urgent situation in the Taiwan Strait" and China's "maritime expansion" action.
The Ministry of Defense has proposed that the defense budget in 2022 is as high as about US$50 billion, which is likely to break the GDP1% upper limit, which is regarded as standard in Japan.
Just two days ago, the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force mobilized 100,000 troops and began the first large-scale exercise in 28 years, which lasted until late November. Everyone can understand that Japan's military exercise is "targeting China".
In addition, joint military exercises such as Japan, the United States, India, Australia, Japan, Britain, Japan, France, the United States, and Japan and the Philippines are also held this year.
2021 edition of " Defense White Paper " has a "strong fighting spirit", which vividly depicts Japan's current "provocative" attitude towards China.
ignores history
In fact, all the above actions have all been planned by Japan to cover up the ugly acts of aggression against China in history.
In China's historical education, the September 18th Incident opened the prelude to Japan's war of aggression against China, deepening China's national crisis.
However, the junior and senior high school curriculum " Learning Guidance Guide " issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology does not clearly require students to master and reflect on the responsibility of Japanese aggression. Therefore, various publishers organized and compiled history textbooks in accordance with the "Learning Guidance Guide " also described the causes and consequences of Japan's launch of the September 18th Incident.
In the most widely used high school history textbook in Japan, the reason for the September 18th Incident is believed to be that "China's movement to regain national rights threatens Japan's interests in China." In addition, Japan's domestic economic crisis, soldiers and right-wing people interfere in politics. Japan finally occupied Northeast China by force and established the "pseudo Manchukuo" under the criticism of the international community.
In the junior high school history textbooks edited by right-wing people, they shamelessly attributed the reason for the September 18th Incident to the damage to Japan's rights and interests in China. The military caters to domestic expectations and occupied Northeast China to protect Japan's rights and interests in "Manchuria".
Generally speaking, Japanese middle school textbooks have focused a lot on the Great Depression in the 1920s and 1930s and the social unrest in Japan. The September 18th Incident, as one of the symbols of the rise of military and fascist forces, was greatly weakened in the Japanese war of aggression, and even had a tendency to rationalize Japanese aggression.
In recent years, the long-term rule of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party has remained roughly stable.
In this environment, conservative politicians in the Liberal Democratic Party are gradually changing the writing methods of Japanese history textbooks by intervening in the revision process of "Learning Guidance Essays" by interfering with the revision process of "Learning Guidance Essays", manipulating the textbook review standards of the Ministry of Culture, Science and Technology, and gradually changing the way Japanese history textbooks are written.
The latest example is that five textbook publishers changed the expression of "comfort women with the army" to "comfort women", and the expression of "forced abduct" and "forced take away" to "compulsory mobilization" or "requisition".
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned the Japanese side, "This is an attempt to blur history, downplay and evade historical responsibilities, and gradually deny and distort the history of aggression."
Of course, there are also many knowledgeable people and social organizations in Japan, constantly arousing the reflection of the Japanese citizens on the war of aggression. However, they are being attacked and treated unfairly by the Japanese government and right-wing forces.
In 2020, Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide did not nominate 6 scholars to enter the Japanese Cabinet Office's consulting agency " Japan Academic Conference ". These scholars have repeatedly publicly voiced their opposition to the right-leaning policies of the Liberal Democratic Party and the government.Among them, Kato Yoko, professor at the University of Tokyo, is a well-known expert in studying the history of Japan's modern aggression wars such as the September 18th Incident. Over the years, he used information from various parties to reflect on Japan's aggression crimes and publicly criticized the government's actions to encourage social rightwardness.
Japanese right-wing forces also further promote right-wing ideas to young people through self-media and social networks, in an attempt to make more Japanese citizens believe that the long-term reflection on war is a "self-abuse historical view", and scholars who criticize objectively reflect on war crimes are "traitor scholars."
Japanese society is going further and further on the road to rightward tendency.
9 September 18th is China's national humiliation day.
Nowadays, the strength comparison between China and Japan is no longer what it was 90 years ago. We have the will and the ability to defend the legitimate rights and interests of the country. We advise Japan to respect history, facts, legal principles, rules, and not to use force to threaten to resolve any disputes between each other.
Learn from history, and historical tragedies cannot be repeated.
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