Emperor Hirohito was the longest-reigning emperor in Japanese history, ruling for 63 years from April 29, 1926 to January 7, 1989.
The last emperor of Hirohito was a figure living in history textbooks, Emperor Meiji, the famous founder of the Meiji Restoration. In 1867, Emperor Meiji succeeded to the throne and overthrew the 264-year rule of the Tokugawa shogunate through the Edo Shogunate's War, establishing a constitutional monarchy in Japan.
After the country stabilized, the previous Tokugawa shogunate signed a series of unequal treaties with the Western powers. Deeply aware of the importance of scientific and technological production, Emperor Meiji launched the Meiji Restoration Movement, which was completely Westernized in China, calling on the whole people to learn from advanced Western science and technology and strive to catch up with the pace of Western powers.
During the 45 years of Meiji's reign, his political achievements were remarkable, not only allowing Japan to move from a feudal society to an industrialized world power, opening up Japan's modern history, but also completing the transformation of Japan from a capitalist country to imperialism, and under the special cultural soil of Japan, imperialism eventually evolved into militarism, laying the groundwork for Japan to become fascism.
In 1894, Japan launched the Sino-Japanese War, the first time it began to attack China, which would be in the era of Emperor Meiji, militarism had just taken shape, and the posture of aggression against the outside world had become apparent.
The Sino-Japanese War forced the Qing government to sign the Treaty of Maguan and lost 200 million taels of silver to Japan. At that time, Japan was in the stage of struggling to catch up with the British and American powers, the development of science and technology and capitalism required a lot of money, Japan was already a national force to develop industrial science and technology, even the Meiji Emperor, only one meal a day, saving money to fill the national treasury. The reparations of the Qing Dynasty were undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the development of Japan's industrial capital.
After receiving the compensation, Japan stopped for 30 years. In the past 30 years, Japan has completely completed the transformation of imperialism, and under the fanaticism of militarist ideas, it has even gone to the road of fascism, and its intention to expand abroad is ready to come out.
After The so-called three fires of the new official's appointment, after Emperor Hirohito succeeded to the throne, the militarist ideology in Japan has reached its peak, and not only men, but even women want Japan to "fight out." Therefore, after 5 years of preparation, in 1931, Japan launched the 918 Incident in northeast China, and from then on, the northeast fell.
Emperor Hirohito, who had tasted the sweetness, did not stop, and six years later, a full-scale invasion of China broke out. Japan has completely embarked on the path of fascism from militarism, and is not unrelated to Emperor Hirohito.
Unfortunately, Japan misestimated the situation and overestimated its military strength, and in the late stages of World War II, the United States entered the war, and two atomic bombs went down, and the whole country of Japan was silent, and they directly surrendered.
However, after the war, a number of Japanese military leaders were tried militarily, and Hideki Tojo and his ilk were all sentenced to hanging. But Japan's "number one war criminal", Emperor Hirohito, escaped the sanctions of the military court, and the emperor, whose hands were stained with the blood of Chinese, reached an agreement with the United States, and the entire Japanese emperor family escaped trial and has been preserved to this day.
After the war, The once-invincible Emperor Hirohito slowly faded out of the public eye and began to turn behind the scenes, also to prevent the world from remembering the crimes he had committed, and for many years he rarely appeared in public. It was not until 1989, when Hirohito, who was suffering from duodenal cancer, cried out for his life that the people of the world suddenly remembered that there was such a war criminal who had been hiding in Japanese politics for so many years.
Of course, for the Japanese, Emperor Hirohito was just an emperor who had waged war. In the same year, they held a funeral for Hirohito and invited representatives of our country to attend. My country replied with four big words "face history", although in the end it was still meaningful to attend Hirohito's funeral, but it was enough to choke the Japanese imperial family.
Japan really should face up to history, and after so many years after the war, their ugly behavior has not changed at all, revising textbooks, falsifying history, and denying the numerous atrocities committed by the Japanese army around the world, especially the crimes committed against Chinese people. Looking at the German Chancellor's kneeling in front of the Jewish Monument, the Japanese should have been ashamed to find a crack in the ground to drill into. This kneeling originally belonged to Emperor Hirohito, but he was a shrunken-headed turtle until his death, and Japan always owes Chinese people an apology.