As the oldest building in Japan, the shrine has always been a famous representative of Japanese culture, among which the shrine is used to worship various gods in Shintoism, and the infamous Yasukuni Shrine was built from the beginning.
As we all know, the Yasukuni Shrine enshrines the bones of Japan's war dead since the Meiji Restoration era after the 19th century, and it contains soldiers and military dependents who died in the war for Japan, including those who participated in the invasion of China. Another notable point is that this infamous shrine is also dedicated to three people.
1. Who is enshrined in the special shrine?
As early as Meiji 12, when the Japanese government officially changed the name of the "Soul Summoning Shrine" to Yasukuni Shrine, after several years of construction, Japan gradually moved some "heroes" into the interior, coupled with the fact that the japanese emperor, who is the most representative of the constitutional monarchy, has been visiting, which undoubtedly enhanced the status of the Yasukuni Shrine, and the three Chinese enshrined here are also quite ironic. These three are Xu Fu, Lin Jingyin and the well-known Chiang Kai-shek.
Among these three people, the first two are people who lived in ancient times, far from our time, Xu Fu was a figure at the end of the Warring States period at that time, instructed by the Qin State's Ying Zheng, leading virgin boys and girls to find immortal medicine for the King of Qin, these have special historical records, and there is such a sentence in the Japanese "National History Strategy": "Xu Fulai of the Qin people." As for Lin Jingyin, this person is also relatively ordinary in history, and it is said that he is a descendant of the poet Lin Kui in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The third is the more famous person in modern times, The President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek. As a person who has a considerable influence on China's modern history, why is he worshipped by the Japanese? This has to bring up another thing, that is, the secret agreement between Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese government that occurred after the surrender of Japan in 1945.
2. Chiang Kai-shek renounced Japanese reparations and the Ryukyu Islands
When Japan surrendered in 1945, Chiang Kai-shek renounced Japanese reparations and the Ryukyu Islands. This sounds very strange, you know, as a victorious country, China has its own interests to return its sovereignty, how can there be something that our side has to defeat and give up its own interests?
You must know that the reason why the May Fourth Movement broke out in 1919 was that after the end of the First World War, Chinese was forced to sign twenty-one treaties, and the past is vividly remembered, and the people paid an extremely heavy price for the War of Resistance Against Japan, which lasted for 14 years in China.
This has to mention the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Japan, from his youth, he once traveled east to Japan, studied military affairs, and then befriended Chen Qimei, the two became good friends, Chen Qimei introduced Chiang Kai-shek to join the Alliance, which made Chiang Kai-shek at that time influenced by Japanese militarist ideas, and finally he said that Japan was his second hometown.
Even at the time of the September 18 Incident, he still pursued a "pro-Japanese" attitude, declaring that "foreign countries must first be inside" and compromised with Japan, because after he joined the Kuomintang, he received a lot of Japanese funding.
Third, the smell of ten thousand years
It is precisely for this reason that after Chiang Kai-shek's death, the Yasukuni Shrine put him into the Yasukuni Shrine for worship, and what we should understand is that Chiang Kai-shek represents the interests of the big landlords and big bourgeoisie, and he disregards the opposition of the people and puts the interests of the state and the people behind his mind.
The casualties of more than 35 million compatriots, half of China was trampled by the Japanese army, 42 million refugees were homeless, and the blood and tears of nearly a trillion people could not be easily filled, not to mention such a blatant place to enshrine war criminals, we should learn to learn lessons from the tragic history, not to forget, otherwise the Great Wall forged by the blood of patriots will be destroyed. Therefore, as long as the Yasukuni Shrine exists, it represents Japan's disregard for the crimes it has committed, which cannot be tolerated.
Text/Ring Shell
Resources:
1. "An Analysis of the Narrative of the Heroic Spirit of Yasukuni in Japan's World War II Memory", Yu Yuran
2. "Research on National Shinto and Sacrifice in the Japanese Invasion of China", Xue Yan