Today, the Nanjing Massacre has become a universally recognized tragedy, but some right-wing forces in Japan still make sophistries in an attempt to beautify or even erase this "black history."
The most typical representative of this is Hideaki Kase, who is known as the "Japanese Right Wing Army Division".
As a historian, he could not see any shadow of "impartiality and objectivity" in Hideaki Kase, who not only openly denied the Existence of the Nanjing Massacre and comfort women in his published works, but also wandered around the major online social media to spread such remarks, like a shameless face.
What is even more infuriating is that Hideaki Kase not only whitewashed the Japanese war criminals in his book, but also arbitrarily deleted and revised works written by foreign scholars, and achieved the purpose of propaganda for right-wing forces through "translations with ulterior motives." For example, in the "best-selling book incident" exposed by the media in May 2014, Hideaki Kase, in collaboration with translation scholar Hiroyuki Fujita and others, in his translation of the book "British Journalists Look at the Hypocrisy of the Allied Victory over History", they tampered with the original intention of the book and denied the Nanjing Massacre.
However, when the book's original author, Henry Stokes, said in an interview, he had no idea about it, and he would never believe that the Nanjing Massacre did not exist!
Academic fraud, harboring evil intentions, propaganda and reaction... These acts were stacked on top of each other, and countless times they punched Hideaki Kase in the face, to paraphrase the words of old Mr. Zhuge Liang— "I have never seen such a brazen person!" ”
Seeing this, some people may be tempted to ask: Why does he, a historian, have to fight for the Japanese right-wing forces? In fact, in addition to his personal "off-the-beaten- and off-the-beaten-track" life pursuits, his father, Shunichi Kase, also played a key role in teaching him by example.
Although Kase Shunichi died of illness as early as May 21, 2004, his deeds and his influence have not disappeared, and as Japan's first ambassador to the United Nations, we can see The shadow of Kase Shunichi in almost all major events in modern Japan.
On the eve of the outbreak of World War II, Kase Shunichi visited Europe as a Japanese envoy, wandering between giants such as Hitler and Churchill, buying time for Japan's strength;
At the time of the pearl harbor incident, Kase Shunichi, as the head of the Japanese Liaison Department in North America, provided the Japanese headquarters with first-hand information on the US military;
After Japan announced its surrender, Kase Shunichi, as the secretary of Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Aoi, participated in the surrender signing ceremony together, and even the documents negotiated between Japan and the United States were written by him.
However, as a war criminal who had personally experienced the war, Kase Shunichi obviously did not learn the bitter lessons left by the war to Japan, and not long after the signing ceremony of the surrender, he openly stood up for the Japanese right-wing forces, threatening that "Japan is not wrong to choose expansion" and "the war is not worth the Japanese to apologize to the Chinese"... Listen, does this sound like a lack of beating?
In addition to being as demagogic as a beam-jumping clown, After retiring from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kase Shunichi also started the profession of amateur writer, of course, writing is not a serious content, in the newspaper column written by him, you can often see his whitewashing of Japanese war criminals and praising the Japanese government.
His son, Hideaki Kase, may have been hearing about it at this time, secretly swearing that "when I grow up, I will become you."
However, Kase Shunichi did not catch up with the era of his son, in the early post-war period, the Japanese government was busy resuming production and infrastructure, and it did not have the previous strength in foreign policy, after all, Japan at that time had been dragged down by the war, everyone's stomach could not be filled, what leisure was there to engage in these word games? Therefore, Kase Shunichi's activities did not attract much attention.
Now that I think about it, it is really thanks to this, otherwise this father and son would join forces to come out as a demon, and they might not be able to figure out what kind of chaos it would be!