There is a shrine in Yukida Town, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, called "Nakasho Shrine", who is enshrined in this shrine? It was the Jiang someone who was arrested after escaping in the Xi'an Incident. It is reasonable to say that Chiang Kai-shek should be an enemy of the Japanese, so why should Japan build shrines for its enemies? It turned out that this Jiang Someone's contribution to Japan was really great.
【Chiang Kai-shek Shrine and Monument to Complaints with Virtue】
A shrine is a place used in Japan to worship gods, or famous figures in history, or to people who have made important contributions to Japan. For example, the Ise Shrine dedicated to the god Amaterasu, the Izumo Shrine dedicated to the lord of the great powers, the Meiji Shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji, and the Togo Shrine dedicated to Higashigo Heihachirō, etc. So what did the owner of the "Chiang Kai-shek Shrine" do to Japan, leading Japan to build a shrine for it? This also begins with the moment of Japan's surrender in World War II.
After a war, the victorious powers generally have to do nothing more than three things: demand compensation for war losses, station troops in the defeated countries, settle war crimes and severely punish war criminals. At that time, China was also a victorious power, and it is reasonable to say that it also had these three rights. At this time, the United States fully supported Jiang Renren, and it was not difficult at all to get reparations, realize the garrison, and liquidate war criminals. Unfortunately, he gave up all these rights.
【After the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army slaughtered anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians】
According to the Potsdam Proclamation, countries have clarified the scope of Japan's compensation. That is, to leave Japan with the industrial level to maintain basic life, and all the others are dismantled for compensation. In the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China suffered direct economic losses of $100 billion and lost 35 million people, making it the country with the worst losses at the hands of Japan and should theoretically receive the most compensation, but what about the facts?
Other Asian countries, which were also ravaged by Japan, received war reparations from Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines received $800 million, South Korea received $300 million, and even Burma received $200 million, while China, which suffered the most losses, did not receive a penny because Chiang announced that he would renounce war reparations. Later, under the pressure of public opinion, I wanted to come and only got $25 million worth of physical objects, which became a joke.
[MacArthur signed the Japanese Surrender Instrument]
Not to mention China's losses in the 14-year war, it cost 10.257 billion yuan to repatriate Japanese soldiers and civilians in China after the war alone. This is still in the case of a hundred industries withering and the economy stagnating. In addition, a total of 2.71 million soldiers and civilians returned to Japan, and they could not only carry shirts, coats, leather boots, handbags and other items, but also brought money ranging from 200-1,000 yen to each. Such preferential treatment, even Okamura Ningji was embarrassed, he wrote in his diary: Chinese returnees to Japan do have too much luggage, as if they have returned from rich relatives. In contrast, returnees from southeastern countries are like beggars.
The stationing of troops in the defeated countries is also one of the rights of the victorious powers. At the Cairo meeting, the United States agreed that China would send 15,000 troops to Japan, and the U.S. military would be responsible for transporting and providing equipment and supplies. This is an international practice that is beyond reproach, just as the United States and the Soviet Union stationed troops in Germany and the United States stationed troops in Japan. But Chiang renounced this right and only symbolically sent a team of gendarmes.
[The strategic importance of the Ryukyu Islands need not be said]
After Japan surrendered, the United States offered to hand over Ryukyu to China, which was again rejected by Chiang Kai-shek. As for the reason, Jiang Later mentioned in a chat with then Foreign Minister Wang Pethui that he was only worried that "Japan will fight about this matter in the future." Needless to say, the strategic position of Ryukyu is only 600 kilometers away from Zhejiang and only 400 kilometers away from Diaoyu Island. As a result of Chiang Kai-shek's abandonment, the US military occupied Ryukyu and built more than a dozen air bases such as Putianma, Naha, and Kadena, which are still the first barrier to blockade China to this day, and also leave endless trouble for the sovereignty of The Diaoyu Islands.
It can be seen from this that Chiang Kai-shek's vision and pattern are still 108,000 miles away from qualified politicians. As a result of his abandonment, the United States swallowed Japan alone, and indirectly protected Japan's integrity, for which Japan was grateful. In the end, the emperor was able to retain it, which was also the credit of Chiang.
[The emperor was retained, in fact, it is also the credit of Chiang Kai-shek]
Some people think that keeping the emperor was the idea of MacArthur, japan's "emperor too high", but this is not the case. The emperor was the number one war criminal and should have liquidated his war crimes, but Chiang proposed, "The emperor's fate should be decided by the Japanese themselves, and it is only a handful of warlords who start the war, and our fundamental purpose is to eliminate the warlords, and we can no longer let them interfere in politics." Later, MacArthur just followed Chiang's train of thought.
At Chiang's insistence, more than 260 war criminals, including Okamura Ningji, were finally found "not guilty" and repatriated to China as quickly as possible. Renouncing war reparations, abandoning the division of troops to occupy Japan, and opposing the abolition of the emperor are Chiang Kai-shek's three major achievements to Japan. Japan was grateful, so it built the "Chiang Kai-shek Shrine" as a memorial. There is also a stele called "The Monument of Revenge with Virtue", and another inscription reads:
"The shrine was established to commemorate the former Chiang Kai-shek of China. On the day of the end of The Second World War, Chiang Kai-shek said: "Being kind to others" is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, opposing the occupation of Japan by division, abandoning war reparations, opposing the deposing of the emperor, and more than 2 million soldiers and civilians were sent back to Japan. That's why Japan thrives today. For the defeated countries, this kind of tolerance is unprecedented among the leaders of the world. The great grace can not be repaid, and the Tris Agency is here to express sincere gratitude and never forget. ”
How can we repay virtue if we repay our grievances with virtue? Japan will never forget it, but it just doesn't know what kind of face Jiang will have to see the 300,000 compatriots who died in Nanjing, and to meet the 35 million dead soldiers and civilians!
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