If one country is to completely conquer another country, it is not enough to use military means alone, in the form of force.
The armed occupation is only the first step, the second step requires the spiritual and religious disintegration of the occupied Power's will to resist and the destruction of the original cultural self-confidence of the occupied State's citizens, and the third step is to implant its own culture in the occupied Country, so that the conquest of other countries can be completely completed.
And Japan is also well versed in this way, and it is precisely in accordance with this step that Japan invaded the countries they invaded during World War II.
The non-forced part of it, which we call "cultural aggression," is what we now often call brainwashing.
"The past does not forget the teacher of the future", today we will take a look at how Japan carried out cultural aggression against us during the war of aggression against China.
To brainwash others, start with yourself
Among the Japanese's set of "cultural aggression" tactics, there is an important but often overlooked part:
Cultural brainwashing of one's own people.
Why?
The reason is simple,
If none of their own citizens can believe that this is a so-called "just war," how can they expect other countries to believe it?
Very early on, Japan began to make all kinds of ideological and public opinion preparations for the invasion of China at home.
As early as the 17th century, a famous Japanese dramatist
Near the Matsu gate left guard gate
In the large-scale historical drama "The Battle of the National Names and Grandfathers", Japanese samurai were allowed to march into Nanjing, and a Japanese-ruled kingdom was established on Chinese soil.
In the 19th century, Sato Nobuchi proposed the "Secret Strategy" of the "Mixed Secret Strategy" of Uchi, which devised a well-thought-out plan to invade and occupy China, and discussed the specific methods and steps of how to "capture" China.
Later Yoshida Shoin proposed it again
The arrogant idea of "reclaiming Ezo, collecting Ryukyu, taking Korea, Pulling Manchuria, Pressing China, and Coming to India" is arrogant.
All of these people and remarks had a huge impact on Japan's march toward militarism.
After the Meiji Restoration, there was a name
Fukuzawa Yukichi
He had a major influence on the development of modern Japanese thought and culture. He was revered by the Japanese
"The Father of Modern Education in Japan",
Meiji period
The great hero of education".
At one point, his portrait even appeared on yen bills.
It was such a person who proposed
"Japan is a civilized country, China and Korea are barbaric countries, and disobeying Japan is disobeying civilization, so the war waged by Japan is a "civilized" war, and the "civilized" war is absolutely correct and necessary."
Fukuzawa wrote more than 40 articles advocating aggression against China, discussing in detail how to invade China, how to divide China, how to exercise rule over China, and so on.
In 1893, Tarui Fujiyoshi wrote the Treatise on the Great Eastern Union. In his pen, he advocated the so-called Asian unity theory, emphasizing that the racial antagonism between the yellow race and the White Western race in Asia should achieve "union" through the "affinity" of the same race.
Established the "Great Eastern Kingdom" with Japan as its ally. His theory later evolved into what we often see as the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."
Do not underestimate the words and ideas of these Japanese literati, these are two sides of the same coin of Japanese militarism.
On the one hand, Japan has become a country with the ability to invade abroad like the Western powers, and on the other hand, it wants Japan to firmly grasp the right to dominate Asia and not let the Western powers get involved and share.
Under the day-to-day advocacy of these people, Japanese militarism has successfully completed the cultural brainwashing of the Japanese people. Quite a few Japanese believe that
Japan is the liberator of Asia, and Japan wants to save the countries and peoples who are persecuted by the Western powers. Groups of fanatical Japanese people embarked on the path of aggression.
Bad cultural aggression
After Japan invaded China, military aggression coincided with cultural aggression.
In cultural aggression, destroying our cultural beliefs and implanting Japanese culture, these two steps are almost simultaneous.
The Japanese were deeply influenced by the theory of Nazi Germany and developed the concept of so-called "total war". The "ideological war" and "propaganda war" are considered to be important links in the "overall war."
July 11, 1937,
That is, 4 days after the outbreak of the July 7 Incident
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The Konoe Cabinet of Japan held a symposium with various Japanese news agencies. It's just them
"Concerted War".
On July 13, the Japanese government convened again
Representatives of several well-known Japanese magazines, "Central Public Commentary," "Reform," "Japan Review," and "Literature and Art Spring and Autumn", made the same demands on them.
Along with the japanese army's iron hooves into China were a large number of Japanese intelligence officers and Japanese right-wing literati. They lure and persuade the upper echelons,
For the lower classes, through journalism, intelligence, Japanese language teaching, etc., they gradually destroyed and disintegrated Chinese culture.
The Japanese used force to sabotage or take over Chinese news organizations and newspapers in the occupied territories,
The introduction of Chinese newspapers from non-occupied areas or the establishment of Japan's own news agencies, newspapers and magazines is strictly prohibited. Or let the traitor puppets come out to run the newspaper, and the Japanese hide behind the scenes.
For example, after the Japanese army's strategic Pingjin, the Japanese army's "North Branch Dispatch Army Reporting Department" and the pseudo-"General Administration of Public Security" set up the "Wude Bao" in Beijing, and the pseudo-"Xinmin Association" ran the "Xinmin Bao"; the Japanese army also launched the "New Declaration", "New China Bao", and other media in Shanghai that beautified the Japanese aggressors.
There are even special so-called so-called in the Japanese army
"Pen Troops".
Japan sent a large number of writers from the mainland to China, and these writers wrote many articles glorifying Japan's aggression. In their pen, the Japanese army is a "civilized" army, and the people of the occupied areas and the Japanese army are happy and harmonious.
In August 1937, the Japanese established the "Manchurian Painting Association" in the tohoku region, also known as the infamous "Manchurian Film". The gold lords behind "Man Ying" were the "puppet Manchukuo" government at that time and the largest Japanese enterprise in the northeast region at that time, "Mantetsu".
The "Man Ying" films are divided into two categories, one is to directly wash the ground for Japan's aggressive acts, advocating "Japanese-Manchurian goodwill" and "five ethnic concords", such as "Stretching The Capital"; the other is to use the wind and snow moon as the mainstay, trying to wear away the will to resist of the Chinese people. These films are just that
"Deception and shame unilaterally imposed on China by the Japanese"
The north relies on "manying", and the south relies on traitors.
In May 1943, the Wang puppet government merged large and small traitor film companies to form the pseudo-"China Film United Co., Ltd." The front desk of this company is Chen Gongbo and Zhou Fohai, these traitors, and the actual power is in the hands of the Japanese Kawa Tadaki Nagamasa.
The films they make are much the same as "Full Screen", but they go further in flattering the Japanese invaders. In 1944, they made a movie called "Spring River Hate". Set against the backdrop of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the film concocts the story of the Japanese samurai Shinsaku Takasugi who helped the Taiping Army.
Outside the news and movies,
The most important cultural aggression of the Japanese is the educational aggression.
The Japanese were divided into two parts in the educational invasion, one was to destroy and destroy China's educational institutions, cultural relics and books, and the other was to promote colonial education.
Before the Japanese occupied Tianjin, the Japanese bombed The city for 4 consecutive hours.
But what is the point of this bombing? Not a barracks,
It is Nankai University.
Zhejiang University is also a key target of the Japanese army, when the school moved west, Japanese military aircraft tracked and bombed,
It forced Zhejiang University to relocate 5 times in 3 years.
Taking Shanghai as a city alone, from the "August 13" incident to October 15, universities lost 6623159 yuan, middle schools lost 2199954 yuan, primary schools lost 259129 yuan, and social and educational institutions such as museums, libraries, stadiums, etc. lost 186,000 yuan (not included in the Commercial Press).
The total amount is 10942242 yuan
In addition to schools, libraries and museums were also targeted by conscious and organized attacks by the Japanese army.
The Commercial Press was repeatedly bombed, shelled, arsoned, plundered, and occupied by the Japanese army, and was greatly injured, when the commander of the Japanese Marine Corps, Yukiichi Shiozawa, said:
"Burn down a few streets in Zhabei and restore them in a year and a half." As long as the Commercial Press, an important cultural institution in China, is burned down, it will never be restored."
After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China submitted to the United Nations a report entitled "Education in China since 1937"
Of the 1,848 national libraries before the war, only 940 remained after the war, and most of the remaining 940 were in tatters.
From the northeast to Guangzhou, wherever the Japanese army went, they continued to destroy cultural relics. After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China compiled the Catalogue of Cultural Relics Looted by the Japanese, which mentioned that there were verified ones
The looted cultural relics reached 3.607 million pieces and 1,870 boxes, spanning from prehistory to the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the value is immeasurable
If the destruction of schools, libraries and cultural relics remains on the physical level, then the promotion of colonial education is naked spiritual aggression and control.
The Japanese army conducted "spiritual education classes" in the northeast, stipulating that these class hours should account for up to three-quarters of the total class hours.
And these courses preach the so-called "royal politics",
It is advocated that Northeast China is not Chinese territory, that Chinese culture comes from Japan, and so on.
Japan also forced students to face the East every morning, bow three times to the Japanese god Amaterasu and the Japanese emperor, and recite the so-called "National Training".
The Japanese also forcibly promoted Japanese language education in the occupied areas, stipulating that Japanese language teaching should account for one-third of the total school hours.
If you fail Japanese, you will not graduate, and if you learn Japanese well, you will have the opportunity to study in Japan.
The Japanese want to cut off our national memory and spiritual bloodline from language.
In the schools of the occupied areas, classical Chinese literature is forbidden to be taught. So what does the school say? Japanese literature.
In 1936, Japan imported 587,000 books into Tohoku, and by 1941 that number had soared to 34.4 million. In 1939, 54.95 million newspapers and 8.27 million magazines were imported from Japan into Tohoku.
The crimes of the Japanese one after another show that they are planned and organized and purposeful attempts to destroy our cultural self-confidence, cut off our cultural memory and national spirit, and their wolf ambitions are not just to occupy so simple, but to really destroy our country and extinction.
This year marks the 84th anniversary of the July 7 Incident, and I hope that the gentlemen who read this article will have an understanding of Japan's cultural aggression against us in those years, and I hope that you can better inherit our national culture and national memory.
Don't be like the fools of a small island who are proud of their grandmother as comfort women.
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