【Text/Observer Network Columnist Shen Yi】
Recently, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has shown a relatively surprising degree of activity, and has made a big fuss about the Taiwan issue on many occasions:
First, a few weeks ago, at a meeting of Taiwan's non-governmental think tanks, he claimed that "Taiwan has a problem", that is, "Japan has a problem", that is, "the Japan-US alliance has a problem"; On the 13th, he appeared on a Japanese television program, saying that the sudden situation in Taiwan affected Japan's security; At a security forum held in Taipei on the 14th, he stressed that "when Taiwan and its democracy are threatened, it is a serious challenge for everyone, and even more so for Japan", and said that if the mainland unifies Taiwan by force, it will be a "suicide" act.
On the whole, Abe's basic framework of rhetoric has the characteristics of a very typical "fox fake tiger power": endorsing the "Japan-US alliance", saying harsh words that Washington does not dare to say, coupled with his former Japanese prime minister's status, using the rhetoric of Japanese and US military intervention, blatantly interfering in China's internal affairs and core national interests, and being quite arrogant.
Shinzo Abe interviewed on a news program (Infographic/Japanese media)
What people are more curious about is that Abe, a former Japanese prime minister who just "retired" from suspected colorectal cancer in 2020, what drugs are sold in the gourd?
Born in 1954 and now under the age of 70, Abe feels a chance to make a comeback because of his keen sense of political smell, or is there some deeper genes, or more bluntly, some genes lurking in Abe's body from the Japanese Family of Class-A war criminals are starting to stir again, so use these absurd remarks that seem very inconsistent with the cautious, conservative, and ambiguous traditional Japanese political style to make a fuss about the re-emergence of certain forces? This is clearly worth discerning.
Anyone familiar with Shinzo Abe knows that he came from a Japanese political family. Historically, the background of this political family may not have had the most profound impact on Shinzo Abe, not mainly because of his connections in Japanese politics or the glory of many successive prime ministers, but because of the memory of the Japanese war criminal generation, a unique bloodline and genetic inheritance of Japan's right-wing:
In addition to the legendary experience of Kishi Shinsuke, a Class A war criminal who was released from Sugamo Prison, Kishi Shinsuke is more noteworthy than his nickname "Showa Yokai", which refers to Kishi Nobusuke's various evil deeds in northeast China.
In 1917, Kishi graduated from the Faculty of Law of Tokyo Imperial University, and in the same year, he entered the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, where he served as an administrative officer in the Clerical Division and the Provisional Industrial Bureau.
After 1925, he served as chief of the Public Works, Clerical and Statistics Section of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Industry, and in 1935 was promoted to Director of Works, during which time Kishi developed close relations as a civilian official with the military headquarters of Japan's right-wing forces.
In 1936, based on political actuarial calculations, Kishi resigned from his position within the Japanese government and went directly to the "puppet Manchukuo" supported by Japan in northeast China, and began a new career of adventure and speculation.
With a special relationship with the japanese military high command, Kishi Nobusuke soon joined hideki Tojo, then chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Naoki Hoshino, director of the General Affairs Department of Manchukuo, Yosuke Matsuoka, president of Mantetsu, and Yoshisuke Catfishgawa, chief of the Manchurian Heavy Industries Development Co., Ltd., and became known as the "Manchurian Five". Compared with the other four, Kishi's biggest magic weapon was to invigorate the so-called economy of the so-called Manchukuo made in Japan by cultivating and selling opium in China, coupled with his personal nature and moodiness, so he soon received the nickname "Showa Yokai".
Kishi Nobusuke and 3-year-old Shinzo Abe (Data Map/Japanese Media)
After being transferred back to Japan from northeastern China in 1939, Kishi Nobusuke naturally got together with Hideki Tojo. In 1940, Kishi was appointed Vice Minister of Commerce, Industry and Industry, and in 1942 Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Tojo Hideki Cabinet, where he was countersigned by Emperor Showa's edict declaring war on the United States.
By the end of World War II, Kishi nobusuke was naturally classified as a Class A war criminal and imprisoned in Sugamo Prison. However, Kishi Nobusuke, who is extremely flexible as a Japanese right-wing extremist, found a way out without any psychological burden, that is, to cooperate with the US side and provide relevant materials for Hideki Tojo according to the requirements of the US side.
The U.S. side quickly took a fancy to a Japanese politician with a flexible body, knew how to provide thoughtful services to the United States, and had strong anti-communist tendencies, and the U.S. intelligence agency's assessment report saw it as the best candidate to "create a Japan that obeys the United States." Trusted by the United States, which enjoyed de facto imperial status in postwar Japan, Kishi was released from Sugamo Prison and soon became a prominent figure in Japanese politics until he became Japan's prime minister.
It should be noted that Kishi Nobusuke is a firm and typical Japanese right-wing in his bones, and the various performances of the United States that are extremely unbearable for later generations of onlookers are nothing more than the standard tactics of relying on the strong, saving lives, and then being ready to fight back when the strong are weak.
Therefore, as the prime minister of Japan, although the cooperation with the United States was extremely smooth, Kishi Nobusuke still presided over the promotion of the "Japan-US Security Treaty" on January 19, 1960, and through the signing of a new US-Japan security treaty with the United States, the "Sword of Damocles" hanging on the right wing of Japan, that is, the so-called "right to suppress riots in Japan" clause of the US military stationed in Japan, was substantially removed from the treaty.
Apparently, after Kishi Nobusuke and Sato Eisaku, Shinzo Abe, who became the third in the company to ascend to the throne of the Prime Minister of Japan, completely and systematically inherited the right-wing war criminal genes of the "Showa Youkai". This gene governs three main types of activities of Shinzo Abe:
First, strengthen the binding of relations with the United States, but at the same time always test the true degree of control of japan by the United States in various ways, seek to remove Article 9 of the Japanese Peace Constitution, which is regarded as a "great shame and great humiliation" by the Japanese right at an appropriate time, and substantively restore the glorious position of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Army and Air Force during World War II in terms of self-defense force capacity building.
From the perspective of operational methods, Abe's "big talk" on the Japanese-US security system and the Taiwan issue in the recent period is actually a classic Japanese right-wing "playing with the upper and lower" to test the meticulous operation of the United States as the main controller of the security system, the real strength, will, and the ability to control Japan; if the final conclusion is that the United States has in fact relaxed its vigilance and control over the Japanese right-wing in order to contain China's strategic threat, there will be more temptations in the future, and one of the main methods will be to " In line with the need for greater freedom of action by the United States," we will advance substantive amendments to Article 9 of Japan's Pacifist Constitution.
Second, in an approximately pathological way, the "China threat theory" is exaggerated and strengthened, acting as a vanguard in East Asia and even the entire Asia-Pacific region to contain China.
For Japanese right-wingers like Mr. Abe, China's rise is a more unattainable and impactful affair. Because according to the Japanese right-wing self-hypnotic historical view, since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has been an Asian honor student who left Asia and entered Europe, and is the only one to succeed; the rapid development achieved by China after 1949, especially after the decisive abandonment of Japan in terms of economic volume, the Japanese right has always been unable to accept and recognize China's success, because this acceptance and recognition will also set off Japan's mistake of choosing to attach itself to and follow the United States - according to the behavioral logic of the Japanese right wing, in this situation. If it is the so-called samurai in the right-wing ideal, it is to draw the sword against the slash, and whoever survives is right.
In reality, Abe Shinzo vented his anxiety and fear by making a big fuss about China on the Taiwan issue; at the same time, in the most extreme cases, Abe and his ilk also very much hoped that Japan would be able to promote a head-on collision between China and the United States at a very small cost.
Third, with the Taiwan issue as the starting point, we should strengthen the traditional relations that began with the cession of Taiwan in the Sino-Japanese War.
Japan is the most important source of "Taiwan independence" forces on the island of Taiwan; in the late 50 years of Japan's theft of Taiwan, through large-scale imperial education, it cultivated a number of backbone forces of "Taiwan independence." The many hardcore "Taiwan independence" families active on the island today seized the first pot of gold in their early years can be traced back to the despicable surrender acts of various betrayals of local resistance forces during the Japanese invasion of Taiwan after the Sino-Japanese War.
In a certain sense, a considerable number of "Taiwan independence" forces on the island of Taiwan today are the eagle dogs and minions that Japan raised during the period of stealing Taiwan. As the current spokesperson of this power on the island of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen has a profound understanding, meticulous understanding and comprehensive grasp of Abe's mind, and all kinds of collusive actions, whether explicit or implicit, are already a situation that cannot be controlled.
For the Japanese right-wing, support for "Taiwan independence" is an important part of their reliving the "glorious history" of the "Japanese Empire" in the past, and it is a key measure to seek psychological comfort in the complex international situation. In this sense, Mr. Abe's rhetoric on Taiwan may be surprising in detail, method, and timing, but overall it is not surprising.
In extreme cases, if the genes of war criminals are not treated in time, they will eventually induce diseases called the source of war; if they are allowed to occur, they will endanger not the Japanese people, but the core interests of regional and even world peace and development.
Abe's big rhetoric can be seen as an early sign of this gene's desire to move. Effectively responding to such early signs and waging a reasoned, forceful, and restrained struggle in the language of the only strength that the Japanese right wing can understand is the only effective way to maintain peace and security in the region and the world and to safeguard China's national interests.
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