Now when it comes to Japan, I'm afraid many people have the impression of Heisei fat guys, believes that young Japanese people have long lost their fighting spirit. Although the right-wing government of still provokes China from time to time, many people think that Japan has lived in a peaceful environment for a long time and will no longer pose any threat to China.
Is this really true in Japan? lost . After , did the Japanese really concentrate on becoming a fat guy? Has the militarist thought of Japan really been wiped out in the decades after the war? Should China really put aside its guard against Japan?
In modern Chinese history, Japan can be said to be the country that harmed China the most . Although Japan was even behind China before modern times, after the Americans opened the door to Japan, they quickly carried out the Meiji Restoration and embarked on the road of rapid development of capitalism . The developed Japan quickly cultivated militarist ideas, and 's external expansion was put on the agenda .
They first invaded the Korean Peninsula and used it as a springboard for their invasion of mainland China. They also occupied Taiwan and affiliated islands through the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, which interrupted China's modernization process. In the 1930s, Japan occupied the three eastern provinces of China through the 18th Incident, and a few years later launched a full-scale war of aggression against China. In that humiliating modern history, Japan committed unforgivable crimes in many parts of China. The Lushun Massacre, the 731 Unit, the Nanjing Massacre, etc. are all evidence of their indelible crimes.
Faced with Japan's invasion, the Chinese military and civilians fought bravely, pulling the Japanese invaders into the vast ocean of the people's war. Finally, seventy-six years ago, the World Anti-Fascist War achieved the final victory, and Japan, as the last important part of the Axis power, declared surrender.
So the question is, Japan's surrender in 1945 means that the militarist ideas and aggression propositions that influenced the direction of Japan's modern society have completely disappeared? Obviously, the answer is no, and this answer is not based on what Japan has done in recent years, but is destined from the moment Japan Emperor Hirohito announced its surrender. On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announced his surrender, and there were major problems in the relevant edicts issued by him.
First of all, this is an edict of surrender, but the Japanese have a little thought, calling it " Armistice Edict ", which makes it impossible to maintain its invasion and can only surrender, and it is called the ceaseless call. In addition, in the edict, Emperor Hirohito said that he had ceased war with the United States and Britain, and even said that he fought with the United States and Britain for the sake of Japan's security and East Asia's stability, completely erasing his aggression.
Let me ask, who would go thousands of miles to bomb naval bases in countries outside the territory to maintain their own safety, and who would go to other people's homes to kill and set fire to others for the sake of the stability of others? If so, then I'm afraid there is only , American .
In the edict, Emperor Hirohito also called China "China" , and blamed the "arms" on the atomic bomb attack in order to protect his people from the US "aggressors". After the entire edict was issued, not only did not see any attitude of admitting defeat and surrendering, but also cleaned up the crimes. Even surrender is the case, and it will probably be even worse after the war.
After Japan surrendered, in order to judge war criminals, the allies conducted Tokyo trial in Japan . But the result of this trial is difficult to satisfy. Because the Americans needed to win over Japanese in order to fight against the Soviet Union and cultivate themselves in the Far East of , the United States was very indulgent to Japanese war criminals.Not only did the first list of more than 100 Class A war criminals, but only twenty-eight people were sued for Class A war criminals, but only twenty-five people were eventually found guilty. Countless Japanese war criminals covered in blood escaped severe punishment from the law. These people and the illusion brought to Japan by the trial also led to the lingering Japanese militarism.
Among the Japanese devils who escaped the list of Class A war criminals, there is an old devil named Kishi Nobusuke . After the September 18th Incident, Kishi Nobusuke came to the three eastern provinces of China and became one of the five gangs of five who were manipulating the puppet Manchukuo. He even had a close relationship with the later establishment of the 731 Bacterial Warfare Force. At that time, Kishi Nobusuke was almost an important Japanese militarist who was known as the same as Tojo Hideki , Doihara Kenji and others.
What's outrageous is that just the day after Tojo Hideki and other war criminals were sentenced to death, this former colleague of Tojo was released from prison and was almost not punished. And the even more absurd thing happened in the late 1950s. The former militarist war criminal was unwilling to be lonely. After serving in the Japanese government for a while, he became the Prime Minister of , of Japan. Nobusuke Kishi knew that he could survive had a huge relationship with the Americans, so as soon as he came to power, he reciprocated and signed the US-Japan Security Treaty with the Americans.
Such a militarist leader has become the prime minister of Japan again. Does it mean that militarism is not wrong? Although this question seems very absurd, it has indeed affected that generation of Japanese young people. In their minds, militarism seems to be correct.
Kishi Nobusuke stepped down, his younger brother also became the Prime Minister of Japan , and decades later, his grandson Shinzo Abe also became the Prime Minister of Japan. A war criminal home can produce three more prime ministers. Rather than saying that Japan has tolerated criminals, Japan has never felt that its former aggression was a wrong act from beginning to end.
It is precisely because of this that successive Japanese prime ministers also have a tradition of worshiping ghosts at Yasukuni Shrine where the executed Japanese Class A war criminals were worshipped. What is even more terrifying is that not only the Japanese prime minister and senior government officials were able to go to the Yasukuni Shrine to worship ghosts, but also the ordinary Japanese people were in constant force, and some even went to worship ghosts in the military uniforms of Japanese fascists in World War II. In the Yasukuni Shrine, the Japanese completely whitewashed the devil war criminals into Japan's national heroes, and whitewashed the war of aggression they launched as maintaining peace in Asia.
The one we mentioned in the previous article, Kishi Nobusuke, his grandson of Shinzo Abe, , was just a member of the parliament, and participated in the activity of proposing Japan to modify history textbooks. After careful modification by the Japanese, Japan's modern military history has been almost wiped out. Even the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre, which are so proof-proven, have become controversial events in Japanese textbooks.
Just imagine, have the Japanese who grew up under such education and social atmosphere really completely freed from the poison of militarism? I'm afraid the fact is the opposite. Not only did the Japanese who grew up in such a Japanese did not feel any reflection on the war crimes they had before, but even continued militarism and aggression ideas for generations . Is such a Japanese really just a fat man in Heisei?
After the end of World War II, although Japan's economy entered the Great Depression for a period of time, the United States needs to support a capitalist camp bridgehead in the Far East, so it vigorously supports Japan's economic development. So the Japanese economy took off quickly, and for a long time, it was the second largest economy in the capitalist world, .
. In terms of military affairs, although Japan was abolished the army after the war, it also signed the Peace Constitution , , but this did not hinder the development of Japan's military power. In the 1950s, in order to maintain Japanese domestic order, Japan formed an armed police force, and soon after, the Japanese Self-Defense Force was established on this basis.
has developed to this day, and the Japanese Self-Defense Force is already the second only to China in East Asia. Before China's military strength began to develop rapidly in recent years, Japan's naval and air freedom were among the best in East Asia and even Asia. The 88 Fleet and 100 Fleet were the reasons for the headaches of Chinese military fans for a long time. According to the rankings of many authoritative institutions, Japan's military strength is now second only to Britain and France, and ranks sixth in the world . It is hard to imagine that this is actually a defeated country restricted by a peaceful constitution.
and Japan is not satisfied with this , because the peace constitution exists. There are certain constraints on Japan's development of offensive weapons. The Americans also sold some weapons with castrated offensive capabilities to the Japanese , but the Japanese developed many offensive weapons themselves. For example, F2, which has the ability to attack the sea to the sea, has developed and purchased a large number of air-sea and land-sea long-range anti-ship missiles, etc., and even under the constraints of not being allowed to develop the aircraft carrier, it also created the so-called helicopter escort destroyer . Now F35 is about to be included, and these helicopter carrier may be just a blink of an eye before turning into an aircraft carrier.
Because of Japan's special geographical location, the United States needs it to develop and restrict its surrounding major powers, so it has repeatedly loosened it. During the Cold War period, Japan played a role in restraining the Soviet Union. Now, it is the vanguard of the United States' strategy toward China. The United States' attitude towards Japan is entirely about raising a wolf to deal with tigers for itself. This behavior is not only an insult to history, but also a trampling on peace.
Just one month ago, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Aso Taro actually publicly announced that once mainland China uses force to unify Taiwan, then Japan does not rule out that it will send troops to intervene in the Taiwan Strait for its own safety. , a defeated country, a country that should have been castrated from all its offensive capabilities, is now clamoring in to send troops to intervene in the unification cause of neighboring countries. This not only reflects Japan's arrogance, but also reveals the remnants of militarism in the bones of the Japanese. Unification of Taiwan is an indispensable part of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and is China's internal affairs. Why can it still be related to Japan's security? Did the Japanese start to apply the logic of World War II again, that is, to bomb Pearl Harbor, the United States for "self-safety"?
Today in Japan, although it seems that it is just a group of right-wing politicians doing clowns , the people are just a group of fat people who enjoy comfort. But this is not the case. Japan has never given up coveting mainland China, nor has it lost the militarist idea of dominating Asia.
In the Tang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty , they all came, but they were settled because of failure. The Japanese nation will only succumb to the strong in its bones. Therefore, in the face of the militaristic left over from Japan to this day, all we need to do is to always remember history and continuously develop our own strength. Being strong is the best way to scare away the Japanese such little ghosts. As for the United States, now it raises wolves and drives tigers and loosens its ties to Japan. Who can guarantee that Japan, the wolf cub, will not bite him back when the United States is declining in the future? Let's wait and see.
