The Second World War is a history of suffering shared by people all over the world. Among them, the Chinese, who have been subjected to aggression and oppression for decades, hate war the most, and also hate all the aggressors who provoke it.
However, many Chinese may not imagine that Japan, which was defeated and surrendered, did not really "surrender" to some extent. Many of them are looking forward to another war of aggression, in a vain attempt to escape from that "crowded and narrow land" and regain their footing in the vast land belonging to China.
Among them, the Japanese veterans who participated in the invasion of China in the past and saw the vastness of China's land and treasures are the most important.
As a result of the brainwashing of Japanese militarism at that time, these Japanese veterans and some elderly Japanese never thought that aggression was wrong, and in their view, the emperor's orders were above all else. The emperor said that if they wanted to occupy China, then China should belong to Japan, and they were ashamed of the emperor for failing to defeat China.
This way of thinking is really shocking.
What is even more ridiculous is that after the defeat, even veterans who have realized that acts of aggression, massacres, etc. are dehumanizing and should not be so, choose to ignore these problems, refuse to admit the crimes committed in China, and are eager to go to war again.
The reason why they are so eager to go to war begins with the country's economic problems after Japan's defeat. During World War II, Japan invaded China in order to seize resources, land, and various treasures accumulated by China for thousands of years.
In the course of the war, soldiers were held high by the emperor, and the people were convinced that they were heroes of the country, and Japan was a national army at that time, and the teacher told young children in class how to be loyal to the emperor and how glorious it was to die for the emperor.
Under the influence of such social brainwashing, there are even many women who choose to take the initiative to sign up for the comfort station, and they believe that it is also an honor that they cannot contribute on the battlefield and can become a tool for the Japanese army to "relieve pressure".
This incomprehensible and unimaginable social atmosphere is the most brilliant peak moment in the lives of many Japanese veterans. At that time, they were worshipped, there was no shortage of money or women, and everyone said they were heroes.
But with the emperor's announcement of surrender, the "hero" became a bear overnight.
Japan's economy plummeted after World War II, as too many young men died on the battlefield, and Japanese society spawned a large number of homeless orphans and widows who could not survive on their own. So, when the defeated soldiers returned home, they saw that their wives and sisters were working in entertainment venues such as bars serving American soldiers, including providing "hidden services."
They get angry, they get angry, they hit women, but to no avail.
Because the reality is that they are useless now, many people are still disabled, they have no ability to support their families, they have killed their wives who sleep with Americans and earn money, and the whole family has to wait for death.
The depressed economic environment made ordinary people hate the soldiers who returned home after the defeat.
In their view, they provided everything they could provide in the rear, why did the Japanese army fail to defeat backward China? It was because of their defeat on the battlefield that the Japanese people would suffer these pains. Soldiers who surrendered back walked on the street, and they would be asked by people with their hair, why they surrendered, why they did not commit suicide, and why they returned home so spinelessly.
It seems that no one realizes that the person who declared war is the emperor, the person who surrenders is also the emperor, and they are all brainwashed to charge the front.
When it comes to the Japanese army that will not surrender, there are actually some.
The representative figure in this is Hiroro Onoda, who after Japan's defeat in the war, fought tenaciously on Lubang Island for thirty years, and was persuaded by the Japanese government to abandon the war and choose to return to China.
On August 15, 1945, the Emperor surrendered, and Hiroro Onoda on Lubang Island knew nothing about it. In the years that followed, the Filipino soldiers gave various pieces of evidence that Japan had long since surrendered, but Onoda Hiroro did not recognize it, and his comrades-in-arms either surrendered or died one by one.
The words "The emperor is invincible" were engraved in his mind, and no matter what the evidence was, Onoda Hiroro did not believe it, believing that the Japanese army outside had already laid siege to many countries and would come to his rescue sooner or later.
Thirty years passed since this "sooner or later," and it wasn't until his old boss, Yoshimi Taniguchi, was invited to come and personally tell him that the war was over, and Onoda had to accept this reality and return to Japan.
Returning to Japan, Onoda Hiroshi became the spiritual leader of the Japanese soldiers who refused to accept the reality of defeat, and they gathered together, refusing to admit the sins committed in the war, longing for japan to one day be able to wage a war of aggression against other countries and let them return to the days of being human beings.
In their fantasies, China is still the country that is poor and weak and can be plundered arbitrarily, and they look forward to one day standing on China's soil again and realizing the militaristic delusion of invading and occupying China.
In 2014, Onoda passed away, ending his sinful life.