In the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, there is a scene that every Chinese will not forget, that is, in 1945, The Japanese representative Okamura Ningji signed a surrender instrument with the National Government in Nanjing. As Okamura wrote his name and stamped his seal on the surrender letter, the fourteen-year-long War of Resistance Against Japan finally came to an end.
Speaking of Okamura Ninji, I believe you will not feel strange. As a "senior" war criminal of aggression against China, you can see him in many relevant reports on the war of aggression against China. Born in Tokyo, Japan, the commander-in-chief was influenced by militarism from an early age and unconditionally obeyed the orders of His Majesty the Emperor.
During the war, not only was the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese base areas swept away, but also orders were given to ordinary people in north China. The Japanese army's "three lights" policy of invading China was also an order he issued, and what happened to such a vicious war criminal who finally escaped trial?
It turned out that Okamura Ningji had been sent to the war criminals prison in Shanghai at that time, but the Military Tribunal of the Republic of China pronounced him acquittal, which caused an uproar, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China questioned and protested the results of his trial, demanding that Okamura Ningji be arrested and tried again.
At this time, the Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek had already announced his resignation from power, but at this time, the commander of the Songhu Garrison ordered the detention of Okamura Ningji and not to release him, and later ordered him to travel back to Japan with the Japanese war criminals who were imprisoned in prison and the Americans.
Okamura Ninji lived at the age of eighty-two, which is also a long life, but his family members did not have a good end, and his first wife, Hoshino Riki, died of a heart attack when Okamura Ninji was forty-two years old. While she and Takeshi Okamura, the younger son of Okamura Ninji, were studying with Okamura Inoji in Shanghai, she unfortunately contracted scarlet fever and died at a young age, while she and Okamura's eldest son, Okamura Tadao, lived a little longer than their younger son.
However, Okamura Ningji died suddenly and violently at the age of seventy-two in his later years, and died at the age of forty-nine, at this time, Okamura Ningji had just been repatriated to Japan not long after, and the white-haired people sent the black-haired people, all of which were retribution. In his later years, Okamura Ningji had no relatives around him and was lonely and bitter. This can only be said to be because there were too many sins committed before, and it ended up in such a fate.
On the night Okamura signed the surrender letter, he wrote a diary to analyze the reasons why the Japanese army failed, the first of which was because of the confrontation between the army and the navy, in fact, the different military departments of the Japanese army headquarters often fought with each other, resulting in excessive internal friction.
This also laid the foundation for the failure of the war, because the army was all conspiring to fight and thinking about how to fight, so the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and Okamura Ningji himself also took this as the first internal cause of the defeat of the Japanese army, which showed its destructive power.
In fact, not only the United States, but also the Japanese army also underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army; on the eve of the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army also threatened to take China in three months. However, the later Battle of Taierzhuang and the Battle of Songhu and other battles severely punched the Japanese army in the face and crushed the ambitions of the Japanese army.
The third point is that our combat effectiveness has been significantly weakened, although Okamura Ningji fought many victorious battles during his time in China, but in the later period he fought an unprecedented defeat, in fact, at this time Japan was already sunset, and China's victory was the trend of the times.
In fact, the defeat of the Japanese war has nothing to do with the masses, and Because Japan has hyped up the spirit of militarism to the masses, many Japanese women have many children for this purpose to export the military machine to Japan.
In Japan, many losers tend to blame ordinary people, which also exposes the depth of the scourge of Japanese militarism, who, as war machines, have no sympathy and compassion, and have become fierce executioners.
The fifth was the atomic bombing, and the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Japan did have a significant impact on Japan, which was also the catalyst for Japan's surrender.
The sixth is the participation of the Soviet Union in the war, during the period of the War of Resistance, the Soviet Union, as our socialist ally, joined the ranks of China in the War of Resistance, and Japan, a small country with few people, not only did not have a large population base as China and the Soviet Union, but its strategic ally Germany also collapsed one after another, and it was difficult to protect itself, let alone to support Japan.
The seventh is that japan's strategic mistake against China has also laid the foundation for its failure; the mutual struggle between the Japanese army and navy has caused constant changes in strategic direction, sometimes going south, sometimes going north, and there is no unified strategic deployment and careful arrangements, which is also an important reason for Japan's defeat.