History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
As the longest-serving emperor in Japan, Hirohito must have had a strong skill in doing things. At the age of eighty-eight, he said six words, all of which were very poignant, revealing his nature and ambition. In Japan's eyes, Emperor Showa was a benevolent monarch who inaugurated Japan's prosperity; for Chinese, Emperor Showa was a sinner of history, killing countless lives in China.
Emperor Showa once shouted a slogan that he would destroy China and dominate the world within three months, and between the two sides of China, Japan exhausted all kinds of methods and means, and in 1940, it expanded its forces again, postponing the war for another fourteen years, causing irreparable damage to China.
During this period, Emperor Showa was overconfident, and on the one hand, he launched a fierce attack on China step by step, and on the other hand, he secretly attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States in an attempt to gain a profit from it. Unfortunately, the abacus was wrong. Under the constant suppression of the United States and China, Japan also accelerated the outcome of the war. Due to a series of events such as the dropping of atomic bombs by the United States and the declaration of war by the Soviet Union, Emperor Showa finally stopped committing crimes and ended the war with China.
Many years later, in order to clear his suspicions, Emperor Showa repeatedly denied the fact that he was in World War II, and even visited the Yasukuni Shrine eight times before and after, which caused dissatisfaction and anger among the Chinese people. In a big way, Emperor Showa seems to be the most famous one in Japan, but also the most brutal one, completely losing the conscience and humanity that a person should have, which is despised by future generations.
At the age of eighty-eight, Emperor Showa finally fell ill with cancer, there was no cure, and before he died, he seemed to think a lot, but in the end he only spat out these six words - I underestimated China... As soon as he said that, his eyes were closed, and the whole person stopped breathing.
These six words, the words poke the heart. From between the words, we can feel that before his death, Emperor Showa still did not realize his mistake, but only lamented that China's strength was much higher than his imagination, but he was unwilling to admit the fact that he had indelible harm Chinese to China.