Speaking of war, we have to mention the war of aggression waged by Japan against our country in the 1930s. It has caused a terrible disaster for our people. After 14 years of arduous resistance, the Japanese invaders were finally successfully driven out, but Our country also paid 35 million bloody sacrifices for this.
As we all know, Japan is an island country, lack of resources, during the Ming Dynasty, Japan often raided the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but were defeated by our army, in 1868, Japan began to implement the "Meiji Restoration" to comprehensively learn from the West, began to embark on the capitalist road, but because of the weak domestic economy, the contradiction between the inverted shogunate and the Tokugawa shogunate faction was aggravated, in this context, Japan began to transfer the contradictions abroad.
In 1875, Japan sent troops to Korea, and the "Ganghwa Island" incident occurred with Korea, because Korea was a vassal state of China at that time, and China also sent troops to Korea, and in every battle, Japan fell behind, in this context, Emperor Meiji prepared to build a modern navy, and it was expected to build a fleet of 32 ships and a new navy within eight years.
But building a new navy is extremely difficult for Japan's finances. Because the japanese navy's funds had reached 27% of the finances at that time, to expand the navy, it was necessary to increase by 4.02 million yen, but if the tax was forced, it was bound to cause the reputation to boil, in order to suppress public opinion, The Meiji Emperor decided to take the lead in collecting donations, he first took out 300,000 yuan, and also sold all the empress's jewelry to fill the national treasury.
As the emperor took the lead in collecting donations, Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi encouraged officials to launch a sensational speech, and the people of the whole country were "moved" by it after listening to it, and within half a year, the donation reached 2.03 million yen. In 1892, Ding Ruchang, the admiral of the Beiyang Marine Division of the Qing Dynasty, led the "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" to visit Yokohama, and the Japanese saw such a large ship for the first time, and they were amazed and caused great repercussions in society.
At that time, the militarists took the opportunity to provoke national antagonism, forcing The Meiji Emperor to speed up the construction of the navy, and finally the Meiji Emperor who had no way to dispatch one-tenth of the country's officials to serve as the national treasury, with the support of Emperor Meiji sparing no effort, by the eve of the Sino-Japanese Navy, Japan had built a modern navy with 31 warships, 24 torpedo boats, and a total displacement of 61,373 tons.
Japan also began to transform from a capitalist country to militarism, embarked on the road of militarism, and began to expand abroad. Until August 15, 1945, When Emperor Hirohito of Japan announced his unconditional surrender, all Japanese prisoners of war were reformed, and then all weapons and command knives were handed over to our army.
For the Japanese army, which believed in Bushido, they were reluctant to hand over their sabers. But the defeat was a fact, and the Japanese prisoners had no choice. But for the prisoners, our army still shows the style of a big country, not like Australia, the Philippines directly executed, but through ideological transformation, let them truly understand the cruelty of war, let them reflect on the war, accept the completion of the transformation before returning to China.
In 1956, after the Japanese prisoners of war were rehabilitated, many Japanese soldiers chose to stay in China and did not want to go back. It turned out that the reality was more cruel than they imagined, and many Japanese prisoners who had returned to China were monitored by a large number of agents at home after returning home, and there was no freedom at all.
Moreover, in the eyes of their neighbors, these people are traitors, and as Japanese who believe in Bushido, they should commit suicide to be loyal to the emperor, which has also caused a great impact on their lives, unable to find jobs, and their lives are monitored, so there is a scene of reluctance to return to China before.
When our army sent a group of Japanese officers back to China, there was an officer who was unwilling to go back, and the conditions put forward were also very strange, that is, we hoped that our army would return his command saber, but this was ironclad evidence of the invasion of China, and it would certainly not be given. But he did not have a dead heart, and continued to find our army, hoping to redeem the saber by a million, but such a move also aroused our vigilance, so our army found the saber.
It turned out that there were 9 words written on it, "Nanjing killed 107 people in the Battle of Nanjing", it is conceivable that this knife was stained with blood, and it was seriously rejected by our army. More than 70 years after the end of World War II, Japan still has no introspection on the war, but continues to pay homage to Japanese prisoners of war and tamper with history textbooks, which is unacceptable to all anti-fascist Allies.
In contrast, in Germany, in 1970, the German Chancellor's kneeling in front of the Warsaw Jewish Monument also let the people of the world see Germany's attitude of reflecting on the war, which is worth learning from Japan!