Recently, a rally was held in Tokyo, Japan, hundreds of people from many parts of Japan gathered together to demand that Japan return the cultural relics stolen from China during the war, and many Japanese scholars said that the number of cultural relics looted by Japan from China at that time was uncountable, and not only China, but also at that time, many Asian countries were also robbed by Japan of a large number of cultural relics, and these Japan should be returned in full.
A large number of national treasure -- "cultural relics" have been lost to Japan, and half of private museums are from China
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the rise of Western countries, the national strength of the Qing Dynasty declined, not only at that time signed a lot of unequal treaties, but also countless "national treasures" were lost overseas, especially during World War II, just the treasures that Japan snatched from the mainland, the number of "national treasure" cultural relics was about 100,000 pieces, in addition, including 6,000 tons of gold, as well as millions of ordinary cultural relics.
In addition, in the history of paleoanthropology research, the "Peking Ape Man Skull", which is of great research value, also disappeared during the Japanese invasion of China and is still missing, which has also become a major strange case in the history of human archaeology.
Including to this day, the relevant experts on the mainland still have not stopped looking for the whereabouts of the "Peking Ape Man skull", some believe that the skull fossil should be lost to the Japanese folk, and some believe that it may be in 1945, accompanied by the sinking of the Japanese freighter "Awa Maru", forever left on the seabed.
It can be said that if there had been no Japanese war of aggression against China, then countless treasures and cultural relics and the "Peking Ape Skull" would not have been plundered and disappeared, so this time, many Japanese people with conscience would have gathered together, hoping that the Japanese government could face up to history and return what was stolen from China at that time while apologizing to China.
It is worth mentioning that in the world, basically every day there will be Chinese cultural relics auctioned, of course, most of these cultural relics are lost overseas in the turbulent years, and in Japan, many Japanese are also the "big collectors" of Chinese cultural relics, for example, in Japan, there is a Meixiu Museum called "Japan Peach Blossom Garden", in this private museum, more than 50% of the exhibited cultural relics are from China.
As for how these cultural relics came from, the owner of this private museum, Miko Oyama, has not hidden anything, saying that she bought these cultural relics looted by the Japanese army at a very low price in the middle of the last century, when the Japanese army was invading the mainland and many Asian countries.
This also made her basically use the "cabbage price" to buy a large number of Chinese "national treasure" cultural relics, until the 90s of the last century, Oyama Meishuko built this museum, and opened to the public, so that the Chinese cultural relics community learned that many of the original missing "national treasure" cultural relics are hidden in this private museum.
In Japan, there are many cases like Hideko Oyama, and even some of Japan's private museums are full of cultural relics from China, and these so-called "Collectors of Japanese Cultural Relics" have also become famous overnight through these cultural relics stolen from China, and have unimaginably huge wealth.
I have to say that this is really very infuriating and painful, you know, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in fact, for more than half a century, it was the greatest catastrophe in the history of Chinese culture, including until today, the vast majority of the cultural relics that Japan snatched from the mainland have not been returned.
So why doesn't Japan return cultural relics? Can it still be returned?
Speaking of which, although the Japanese army invaded China, the mainland was still a victorious country in World War II, which also meant that at that time, the mainland had the right to recover what had been robbed by Japan, especially precious cultural relics, but in fact, over the years, the cultural relics returned by Japan were not even a fraction.
As for the reason, the main reason is that the recovery process has been constantly resisted, and many "national treasure-level" cultural relics in Japan do not even recognize them in their hands, and many cultural relics have been destroyed, leaving only fragments.
All in all, because the process of recovering cultural relics is very tortuous and complicated, and the Japanese side does not cooperate, and also put forward a lot of restrictions, but also "one question and three do not know", these have made the mainland want to recover cultural relics from Japan into a desperate situation, coupled with the fact that many American capitalists have gone to Japan to buy a large number of cultural relics stolen from China, which also makes these cultural relics after several reversals, and it is more difficult to recover them.
Even to this day, Japan has not even been able to face up to history, so how can it return to China the cultural relics it snatched in those years? After all, if it is really returned in full, then it is equivalent to Japan acknowledging the war of aggression against China, so although the motherland is now strong, there are still difficult problems to solve in some matters. What do you think about this?