introduction
We often use the term "old treacherous" to describe the worldly, extremely treacherous and cunning. The term "Old Rapist Giant Monkey" comes from the "Song Shi Food Chronicle": "Old Rape Giant Monkey; hide in the prefecture and county; dance law disturbs the people; cover even the day before." "When we look back at history from the current point, there has also been such a group of people who have grabbed many benefits as pushers behind the incident. Japan's surrender in World War II is a stark example.
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World War II was a war that swept the world by the fascist countries represented by Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy, affecting nearly 2 billion people. Japan, one of the three Axis powers, began to invade Chinese territory in 1931. Subsequently, World War II entered a white-hot stage, and in order to plunder as many material resources as possible to support their troops on the Chinese battlefield, while preventing British and American military support for the Chinese battlefield, Japan frantically expanded the scale of the war, invaded Southeast Asia, and launched the "Pacific War".
▲The Japanese army invaded China
On December 7, 1941, the United States officially declared its entry into the war in pearl harbor as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the war situation began to turn around. After the United States entered the war, Japan was repeatedly defeated in the Pacific theater, and it was unable to return to the sky on the Chinese battlefield, and fell into a situation of isolation and helplessness. In the end, under several provocations by Japan, the United States could not bear to decide to drop two atomic bombs code-named "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and the two places were severely damaged. This behavior forced Japan to abandon the long-planned "100 million jade fragments" plan. At noon on August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan broadcast a radio informing the world that the Japanese side would surrender unconditionally and accept the Potsdam Proclamation.
▲Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
September 2 is a day of extraordinary significance for the people of China and even the world. On this day, Japan, as a defeated country, signed the instrument of surrender. So far, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression of the Chinese people has won a great victory. The Chinese people are familiar with this period of history, but did Japan really surrender unconditionally?
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In fact, Japan did not surrender unconditionally, but negotiated with its allies for half a month and put forward three conditions. First, Japan retained the emperor system after the war. The Japanese have always believed that the emperor is a living god and a descendant of the god Amaterasu, not only symbolizing the Japanese monarch, but also representing the spiritual sustenance and patron of the Japanese people. The existence of the emperor is recorded in the Northern Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu's New Book of Tang and the History of the Song Dynasty. In such a militaristic country, For fanatical Shinto believers and fierce right-wing forces, Japan must have an emperor and an emperor system. And it is precisely because the United States saw that the Japanese emperor played a great role in ruling Japan, and finally decided to give up the responsibility for the Japanese emperor's war crimes, but instead tried its best to help him exonerate and evade responsibility. With the help of the United States, the imperial system was retained.
▲The Emperor of Japan participates in the event
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Secondly, it requires the self-disposal of its own war criminals. The Japanese demanded that if the Allies wanted to deal with Japanese war criminals in World War II, they would have to be tried on Japanese soil. Therefore, after the end of World War II, the victorious powers established a military tribunal in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals, which is the infamous "Tokyo Trial". However, due to many factors, the Tokyo Trial was not held until March 20, 1946. Before the trial, the Japanese side even sacrificed some people and fabricated a lot of fake and shoddy evidence to help war criminals exonerate and reduce their responsibilities, thus preserving many war criminals.
▲The scene of the Tokyo trial
The above two conditions proposed by Japan have caused many criminal war criminals to avoid the punishment they deserve, and many have continued to hold important positions after the trial. The Emperor of Japan, as a symbol of Japan, was even directly exonerated from criminal responsibility and did not appear in court to stand trial at all.
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The last condition is that other countries are not allowed to station troops in Japan. It is worth mentioning that this condition completely exposes the cunning and insidiousness of the Japanese. Because as long as other countries do not have soldiers stationed in Japan, they can still retain territorial integrity and territorial sovereignty. The reason for this may be that the encounter with its ally Germany dealt a heavy blow to Japan, since Germany's defeat in the war, four countries have occupied German territory separately.
▲U.S. military base
Compared with Germany's environment, Japan is a small island country, surrounded by the sea and resources, and once it is squeezed by other countries in the world, it simply cannot bear this price. If Germany were to repeat its mistakes, Japan would be devastated. Eventually, with U.S. intervention, the remaining allies agreed not to send troops to Japan, but the U.S. itself stationed troops in Japan. Perhaps jealous of the toughness of the United States, or perhaps in order to compensate the United States for its mediation, the Japanese side finally acquiesced to the attitude of the United States and acquiesced to the US military presence, and often provided excellent services for the US troops stationed in Japan.
epilogue
The wheel of history rolls forward, standing at today's node and looking back, we always believe that justice will not be absent. As the "Prison Wall" cloud: I smiled at the sky with a horizontal knife, to leave the liver and gallbladder for two kunluns. No matter how difficult the past days were, the Chinese people used their tenacious will and stubborn resistance to see through Japan's illegitimate plans and smash the Japanese army's plan to occupy China. The unjust side is bound to be condemned and spurned.