At noon on August 15, 1945, in Japan, Emperor Hirohito's "Yuyin" was being "broadcast" through the radio, and the content of "Yuyin" was not the news that the Imperial Army had created any great victories, but the recorded announcement in advance that Japan accepted the "Potsdam Proclamation" issued by China, the United States, and Britain, and implemented the surrender edict of unconditional surrender and ending the war; many Japanese who knelt and listened to the "Yuyin" covered their faces and wept, and most of them still heard the "Jade Sound" issued by the revered Emperor for the first time. Only then did they realize that Emperor Hirohito was not the "god of the living people" advocated by the militarists, but ordinary people like them.
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On September 2 of the same year, Aoi Shigemitsu, then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, walked onto the main deck of the battleship Missouri moored in Tokyo Bay, Japan, wearing a gown and a top hat, and as he took off his hat and bowed, he limped toward the signing table, which looked very funny, this was his leg disability left on the battlefield in China, and with him was Yoshijiro Umezu, the chief of staff of the Japanese Army, whose hands were stained with the blood of countless innocent Chinese people; and today under the gaze of the representatives of the Allied countries, He was to sign the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the General Staff Headquarters, along with Aoi Shigemitsu, who represented the Emperor and government of Japan, and the representative of China present was General Xu Yongchang.
Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Aoi was the first to sign the instrument of surrender. /Image source network
General Xu Yongchang in Chinese military uniform/Image source network
In the Chinese theater, the surrender ceremony was held on the morning of September 9, 1945, in the auditorium of the former Central Military Academy in Nanjing. Ninji Okamura, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Chinese Dispatch Army, signed and stamped the instrument of surrender to China, and then handed over his saber to the Chinese side, symbolizing the surrender of weapons to the Chinese army; at this point, Japanese militarism was overthrown in China, and Japan, which had been exhausted and killed wildly, also paid a heavy price after leading the terrible war to its neighboring countries and the whole world, so that all the national achievements created by Japan since the Meiji Restoration were destroyed, and the people went to the abyss of war The most serious of these is China, which has made great sacrifices and losses in the arduous War of Resistance Against Japan, but the advent of victory has also washed away the century-old humiliation since the Opium War in 1840, and countless heroic souls who have thrown their heads and spilled their blood for it have been comforted, and China, which was once humiliated by the great powers, has become a victorious country in the anti-fascist war!
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The war is over! Peace is back! But the trial of Japanese militarist war criminals has only just begun!
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On January 19, 1946, the High Command of the Supreme Allied Powers of the Far East promulgated the Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East under the authorization of the Allies, and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East was established and began to carry out a fair trial of Japanese war criminals who had committed heinous crimes; the military tribunal was composed of 11 judges appointed by the victorious powers and appointed by MacArthur in accordance with the provisions of the Charter; the formed countries were: China, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, India, and the Philippines, and the judge appointed by China was Mei Ruxuan.
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The trial began on 3 May 1946 and ended on 12 November 1948, lasting two and a half years. The trial was held 818 times, with 419 witnesses appearing in court, 779 witnesses in writing, more than 4,300 pieces of evidence accepted, and the judgment was 1212 pages long. The verdict exposed the crimes of Japanese imperialism in planning, preparing and launching wars against China, Asia and the Pacific, and convicted 25 defendants, including seven Japanese Class A war criminals (Hideki Tojo, Ishigen Matsui, Akira Muto, Seishiro Itagaki, Hiroshi Hirota, Shotaro Kimura, and Kenji Toihara) by hanging.
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In the early post-war period in Japan, the people were increasingly embarrassed by the years of war, they were hungry, the country's economy collapsed, and the soldiers who were once deeply admired by the people became the target of accusations, and they were unable to protect themselves, and even the emperor was questioned and opposed. But then the United States vigorously supported Japan due to the needs of its own interests, so that Japan's economy rose rapidly, once again became an Asian power, and the people also got rid of the decadence of defeat and lived a rich and superior life. The Japanese Government and organizations have constantly provoked asian neighbors by paying homage to the Yasukuni Shrine by paying homage to the Yasukuni Shrine, using territorial issues such as the Diaoyu Dao and Dokdo to stimulate the nerves of other countries; the Japanese right wing has even packaged Japan as a victim of the war, denied the Nanjing Massacre, the comfort women issue, germ warfare, and other crimes that had been committed, distorted historical facts, adhered to the imperial view of history and written books and biographies for it, in an attempt to clear the charges of war criminals, enshrine the spiritual seat of war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine, and advocate nationalism.
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And the descendants of those war criminals are important members of these beam-jumping clowns, some of whom have prominent social status and some live a life of high society, and they are carrying the banner of the right wing, jumping up and down for militarism, and enjoying it; but there are also some others, who make a "break" with the sins of the family in their own way.
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1. "Right wing of the right wing" - Tojo Yubuko
Class A War Criminals - Hideki Tojo / Image Source Network
Hideki Tojo, who was sentenced to death by a judge at a military court for fifty-four crimes such as war crimes, invasion of other countries, and crimes against humanity, left his family with the motto of "not saying everything" before his death, and the three sons and four daughters he gave birth to also obeyed the will and low-key behavior; the most famous of many children is the third son, Tojo Keio, who developed a new type of fighter for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; after the war, he continued to serve in the research and development of civil airliners and military transport aircraft, and finally rose to the vice president of the Mitsubishi Group in Japan!
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Compared with the low profile of her children, Tojo Hideki's granddaughter Tojo Yubuko is much more high-profile, and she published the book "The Truth about the Great East Asian War" in 1992, in which hideki Tojo was described as a national hero and falsified history at will; claiming that the "Great East Asian War" was the correct war, and the only fault was the defeat in Japan; denying the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre and the Japanese military forcing women to become "sex slaves"; and saying in an interview: "He (Hideki Tojo) is an outstanding man who fought for the country." She is the darling of the Japanese right-wing and has been rated by the Japanese media as "the right-wing of the right-wing". Eventually she died in 2013 and met his "heroic grandfather" in Hell!
Second, the speculators - Itagaki Masa
Class A War Criminal - Seishiro Itahara / Image Source Network
Itagaki Seishiro, who had been engaged in espionage in China for a long time, was most proud of actively planning the "918" incident to prop up the puppet Manchu government, and he finally surrendered to the British army in Singapore in September 1945, and was sentenced to hanging by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in 1948.
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His son Itagaki Masa, who was sent to a Siberian labor camp as a prisoner of the former Soviet Union at the end of World War II; after returning to Japan, in order to show his clear line with the father of the war criminal, he actively participated in the democratic movement and joined the Japanese Communist Party in 1950; but this "son of a war criminal" was not recognized; in order to seek a future for himself, Itagaki Zheng broke away from the Japanese Communist Party in 1957 and found a new patron, the "Japanese Remnant Association", and took advantage of the descendants of Class A war criminals. He served as the Planning Minister in the organization. Through the "Survivors' Association", he also established relations with Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, was elected to the Parliament in 1980, during which he strongly demanded that the prime minister pay homage to the Yasukuni Shrine, and Itagaki Masanobu also denied the Nanjing Massacre, the Sanguang Policy, the judgment of the International Tribunal for the Far East and the issue of comfort women, calling the Nanjing Massacre "a fictional story", saying that the Sanguang Policy had no "historical facts as a basis", and saying that the International Tribunal for the Far East "unilaterally convicted Japan as an aggressor country".
Third, the "alternative" of the descendants of war criminals - Hiroko Toihara
Class A War Criminal - Kenji Doihara / Image source network
Kenji Doihara, known as the "China Pass", was the number one spy during the Japanese invasion of China, and was sentenced to hanging after the war and was the first to go to the gallows! After his death, the family also went into ruin, life was once barren, the family was not only pointed out, but also driven out of the residence, and finally improved with the support of Hideki Tojo's wife, while his son closed the door all day and lived on alcoholism; his granddaughter Hiroko Doihara later hated it after learning the history of her grandfather Kenji Doihara, and even hated the blood of Doihara in her body, to her: "Why is such a person my grandfather? The elders in the family think that her grandfather is a hero, which makes her unable to accept, fortunately, according to Japanese customs, women must marry their husbands' surnames, which makes her "take off" the "label" of Toihara.
4. "Outliers" - Hirotaro Hirota
Class A War Criminal - Hiroshi Hirota / Image source network
Hirota Hiroshi, the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan, was hanged on December 23, 1948, the main crime being: "Hirota Three Principles and the Establishment of the Military System", and he was the only civilian official among the seven Class A war criminals sentenced to capital punishment.
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After Hirota was executed, his wife died in the same way as Nogi Yoshinori, and in 1955, the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare returned the "bones" of seven Class-A war criminals to their survivors, but only the Hirota family refused to accept the bones. Hirota Kotaro, the grandson of Hirota Hiroshi, was very indignant when he learned that his grandfather's ashes were "worshipped" at the Yasukuni Shrine along with other Class-A war criminals, on the grounds that they had never informed us or given us our consent; and the so-called "bones" were cremated by the US military and other war criminals, which was really unacceptable; Hirota Kotaro also came to the Yasukuni Shrine many times, not to visit the shrine, but to move his grandfather out and no longer accept the "hospit", on the grounds that Hirota Hiroshi was not a soldier. Nor was it a war dead person, and it was not eligible to be enshrined; but the Yasukuni Shrine refused.
Fifth, the descendants of war criminals in the Japanese entertainment industry - Reina Matsui
Class A War Criminals - Matsui Ishigen / Image Source Network
Also sentenced to hanging by the Far Eastern Military Tribunal was the Japanese general Matsui Ishigen, for China, the biggest crime committed by this old devil was the "Nanjing Massacre", 300,000 innocent compatriots tragically died under the butcher's knife of the Japanese army, and Nanjing became a purgatory on earth. In the military court, Matsui Ishigen argued that he had failed to stop the atrocity because he was ill, and for the atrocity, he threw out absurd remarks that "this is like a family, when the older brother really can't stand the brother's violence, and beat him, because he loves him too much, and prompts him to reflect" absurd remarks.
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And his descendants are rumored to be the famous Japanese actor Reina Matsui, and he has achieved a little success, I don't know if it is a false rumor?
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The above is the situation of some of the descendants of Class A war criminals in Japan, and more descendants of war criminals and the families of japanese dead soldiers spontaneously formed the "Japanese Survivors Association", with the development of Japan's economy and political needs, the Japanese Survivors Association has undergone multiple changes from non-governmental organizations to foundation corporations, from vulnerable groups to powerful forces that influence Japan's political arena. It is a powerful right-wing political force that influences Japanese political circles and incites political leaders to pay homage to the Yasukuni Shrine. Becoming a lingering remnant of militarism hanging over Asian countries has to attract the attention of all countries!
#部分内容引用自蒋丰博客内容.