Japanese culture is more strange, we can always hear such as "rice fairy", "god of tempura", "sushi god" and "tea egg god" titles, these people are exaggerated, are about to go to heaven, so that the last bowl of rice priced at 500 pieces, a tea egg queue for a day may not be able to buy. In fact, people who know a little about Japanese culture know that the Japanese class is solidified and almost does not flow, resulting in some people who have been doing the same thing for generations, doing it for decades and hundreds of years, natural practice makes perfect, plus the Japanese are not low-key at all, so one by one they are exaggerated as gods. So those strange titles, everyone listens to it.
However, there is a nickname called "Showa Demon", but it is a different kind, others are "gods" are "immortals", but he has become a "demon", but when we understand what he has done, we will find that calling him "demon" is simply insulting to the demon, because this person not only mutilates Chinese, he is fierce, even his own countrymen dare to betray, this "demon" is the male protagonist of this article, Kishi Nobusuke.
Kishi Nobusuke
A "Showa Demon" growth story
Kishi Nobusuke was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and this prefecture belongs to the kind of 47 prefectures in Japan, because in this prefecture was born the largest number of prime ministers in Japanese history, in addition to the male protagonist of this article, Kishi Nobusuke, as well as Ito Hirobumi, Sato Eisaku, Shinzo Abe, Naoto Kan, etc. are all from Yamaguchi Prefecture, and a total of 9 Japanese prime ministers were born, ranking first among all prefectures, and are known as the "cradle of politicians".
Kishi's grandfather was Nobuhiro Sato, and during the shogunate period, he was the kind of character who could drink tea and chat with Ito Hirobumi, and later became the prefectural governor of Shimane Prefecture because of his support for the Meiji Restoration. Kishi's father, Hidesuke Sato, was also a civil servant in yamaguchi Prefectural Government, and was born in such a political environment, Kishi Nobusuke was naturally quite politically minded, and later he was able to jump from a World War II "Class A war criminal" to become the prime minister of Japan, inseparable from the political foundation here.
In addition, Yamaguchi Prefecture is also the place where militarism occurred, the founder of militarism, Yoshida Shoin, is Yamaguchi Prefecture, and the later Class A war criminals, Matsuoka Yosuke and Kakegawa Yoshisuke, are all from Yamaguchi Prefecture, one by one are senior militarists, especially Matsuoka Yoyou, the sentence "Manchuria is the lifeline of Japan" is what this scum said, and later he has been encouraging Japan to invade China, after the end of World War II, he was listed as a Class A war criminal, but this guy had a good life, and before the trial was over, he burped because of tuberculosis. Born in such an environment, Kishi was naturally exposed to militarist ideas from an early age, but it was during his college years that he really took root in them.
Kishi Nobusuke University is Japan's Tokyo Imperial University, which is now the University of Tokyo, ranked in the world's top 50, sure enough, people can not look, don't look at Kishi Nobusuke looks like a goose cheek, a bumpy look, the book is still quite good. Kishi was a university student in 1917, and a major event occurred that year, the October Revolution in Russia far north of Japan was successful, which had a great impact on Japan. At this time, Japan has embarked on the capitalist road since the Meiji Restoration, but it is not complete, the peasants at the bottom are still oppressed by feudalism, so that the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider and wider, the peasants can not even afford to eat, just when the Wind of the October Revolution in Russia blew, the people at the bottom seemed to see hope, so in 1918 there were several rice-grabbing riots. In this case, the "people of insight" in Tokyo Imperial University, which is a famous school, naturally began to think about the direction of the country, and Kishi Nobusuke naturally had to make some noise.
At that time, there were two kinds of ideas popular in the school, one was the "Emperor Organ Theory", which advocated that the Japanese Emperor was only one of the highest authorities of the state, and the ruling power was owned by the state, and the other was the "Emperor Sovereignty Theory", which emphasized that the emperor had absolute power. At that time, the "emperor's sovereignty theory" was advocated by a man named Shinyoshi Uesugi, who was called "the most extreme scholar in the imperial militarist system from the late Meiji to the early Showa period", and Kishi Nobusuke studied his extreme theories under Uesugi Shinyoshi at that time.
Along with Kishi Nobusuke, there were two other people who were extreme in their thinking, one named Kita Kazuki and the other named Shumei Okawa. Kita Kazuki was the founder of Japanese fascist theory, very much advocating war and hoping for Japanese foreign expansion; the other Oikawa Shumei, known as the "father of Japanese fascism", advocated great Japaneseism, and was later listed as one of the Class A war criminals after the defeat, neither of them was a good thing. Later, the two also established Japan's first fascist organization, the "Survival Society", advocating fascist theory, advocating the transformation of the Japanese Empire, the liberation of Asian nations, and the propagation of "Greater Asiaticism". It can be said that it was in the past few years at Tokyo Imperial University that Japanese militarism and greater Asianism took root in Kishi Nobusuke's heart, and his world view gradually formed, and a demon was born.
KitaIchiki (left) and Shuaki Okawa (right)
Kishi Nobusuke originally planned to join the army when he was in college, but unfortunately he failed the physical examination and was brushed off, so in 1920, Kishi Nobusuke listened to the recommendation of his teacher Shinyoshi Uesugi and went to politics and embarked on a career path. As a graduate of a prestigious university, plus the blessing of his own political foundation in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Kishi Nobusuke was still very quick to embark on a career, and at that time there were the Ministry of internal affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce (Japan's province is equivalent to our ministry), of which the Ministry of the Interior was the most compelling, directly assisting the emperor, followed by the Ministry of Finance, and the worst was the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, which was the shortest in its establishment, mainly responsible for agriculture, forestry, industry and commerce. If you want to develop rapidly in the official arena, it is reasonable to go to the Ministry of internal affairs, but Kishi Nobusuke went the opposite way and chose the newly established Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. Because he believes that the Ministry of internal affairs and the Ministry of Finance are full of talents, as a fledgling rookie Nobusuke Kishi, it is difficult to have room for development, while in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, it can play freely and rise faster.
As it turns out, Kishi took the right step.
After the First World War, the world economy fell into a period of downturn, Japan began to inflation, coupled with the original domestic gap between the rich and poor is too large, in addition to the outbreak of the above-mentioned rice-grabbing riots, such as workers' unemployment, enterprise bankruptcy, price plunge, etc. naturally also took turns, began to appear economic crisis, Japan urgently needs to expand foreign trade, the importance of this department of agriculture and commerce is self-evident. In 1925, the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce was divided into the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Commerce, and Kishi Nobusuke served as the minister of commerce and industry, and at the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the United States in 1926, Kishi Had the honor of visiting Europe and the United States.
At this time, Japan was in a mess, and Kishi Nobusuke did not realize the gap between the two countries until he arrived in the United States. In 1926, Japan's annual steel production was planned to be 1 million tons, but the amount of steel in the United States in a month had reached 5 million tons, and the amount of small Japan for a whole year was less than a month, Kishi Nobusuke was like a countryman entering the city, after seeing such a huge gap, he silently made a decision in his heart - Japan must not confront the United States in the future, otherwise it will certainly not end well, it is best to hug the thighs of the United States, and almost kneel down on the spot to call the United States "Daddy".
After seeing the United States, Kishi Nobusuke also ran to the defeated country of Germany in World War I to hang out, and found that even a defeated country developed better than its victorious country, at that time, the average annual industrial growth rate of Japan was only 3%, the United States was 4.3%, the United Kingdom was 1.7%, and Germany actually rose to 7.1%, Japan's foreign trade volume increased by 24%, the United States 39%, the United Kingdom 7%, and Germany increased by 110%, after seeing such a huge gap, Kishi Nobusuke, who was only 30 years old, silently made a decision in his heart - Japan should learn from Germany's economic means and revitalize the Japanese economy.
What is not good to learn, but to learn from Germany at this time, this is also doomed to Japan's next way out and Germany will be the same.
Let's first analyze why Germany at that time had an amazing growth rate, after the end of World War I, Germany as a defeated country owed a lot of compensation, in 1921 by the European and American countries finalized the total amount of reparations of 132 billion gold marks, about 33 billion US dollars, requiring payment within 66 years, must be compensated 2 billion gold marks per year, how difficult it is for a defeated country, it is simply a life. But Britain, France and the United States do not want Germany to fall, in case it is too tight, it is not good to run to recognize the Soviet Union as a big brother, so the United States came up with a "Dawes plan", lending to Germany, a steady stream of funds led to the rise of the German economy, Germany also launched the so-called "industrial rationalization movement", this movement focuses on the introduction of advanced technology in Europe and the United States, squeezing the domestic labor force, on the surface to stimulate the country's economic growth, the German economy soon returned to the level before world war, but there are two drawbacks, One is the serious exploitation of the bottom labor force, the other is too dependent on foreign capital, once foreign capital is withdrawn, then the economic crisis will come.
However, at that time, Kishi Nobusuke could not see this at all, or did not think that he thought it was, after all, Kishi Nobusuke had always thought of relying on the economy to revitalize Japan, so after returning to China, he wrote a report on the Industrial Rationalization Movement in Germany and handed it to the Japanese Cabinet at that time, which adopted Kishi Nobusuke's suggestion and immediately published the "Outline of Industrial Rationalization", and it has to be said that industrial rationalization was still effective at the beginning. By 1929, the proportion of Japan's total industrial output in the national economy reached 68.8%, the proportion of heavy industry in the total industrial output value reached 38.2%, and the output of steel increased from 493 thousand tons to 937 thousand tons, an increase of nearly 1 times; production costs were reduced by half, and the profit per ton of finished products increased from 1.75 yen to 14.8 yen, an increase of more than 8 times.
A series of economic boosts made the Japanese monopoly consortium a lot of money, and Kishi Nobusuke began to emerge in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry because of this proposal, and took the opportunity to strengthen the characters in the monopoly consortium, laying the groundwork for him to climb to a high position in the future.
In 1929, an incident also happened that made Kishi Nobusuke famous.
When The new Japanese prime minister, Yuyuki Hamaguchi, came to power in 1929, coinciding with the economic crisis, he carried out drastic reforms, one of which was to cut the salaries of civil servants and require public officials to reduce their salaries by 10%. At this juncture, the salary cut is bound to make officials dissatisfied, but most of them dare not speak out, but Kishi Nobusuke is different, at this time he has become the chief affairs officer of the Clerical Office of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, at the risk of being deposed, he took the lead in leading the anti-wage reduction movement, and suddenly made him famous in the political circles, and Japanese officials realized that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry still had such a number one figure who was not afraid of death.
Yuyuki Hamaguchi
Two things before and after, let Kishi Nobusuke in the political brush a wave of attention, but also leaned on the chaebol, for him to obtain a lot of political capital, Kishi Nobusuke this trick political means to play slippery, by 1936, only 40 years old Kishi Nobusuke was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, but not long after, on September 17, 1936, Kishi Nobusuke suddenly made a surprising decision, that is, he was going to resign as director and go to northeast China. Kishi nobusuke claimed that he could show his fists and feet over there to achieve his revenge, so this "Showa Demon" began to show his ugly fangs, open his blood basin and mouth, and step by step towards northeast China, and the people of northeast China will face more terrible destruction.
The Manchurian Gang of Five
On September 18, 1931, Japan launched the "918" Incident, invaded northeast China, and in March 1932, pulled the last emperor Puyi to establish the "puppet state of Manchukuo". At this time, Kishi Nobusuke, who was still in the Japanese Ministry of Commerce and Industry, had begun to rub his fists when he heard the news, and wanted to run to the northeast, at that time, Japanese officials entering the pseudo-Manchuria would be considered demotion, and everyone avoided it, but Kishi Nobusuke was the opposite, eager to rush over immediately. Therefore, he began to intentionally get to know the Japanese War Department and some officials who advocated invading China, and he got to know the Japanese Kwantung Army in a match, preparing for his entry into puppet Manchuria.
By 1936, in order to better plunder the resources of northeast China, pseudo-Manchuria needed outstanding talents in the economic field, and as Kishi Nobusuke, who had already advocated the "industrial rationalization movement" in China and achieved certain results, he was naturally invited to the northeast as he wished. Before going to the northeast, Kishi Nobusuke relied on his relationship with the War Department to get a letter of recommendation written by Anan Weiji, then the director of the Japanese Army Province's Military Affairs Bureau, to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, saying that this Anan was also a strange thing, and at the age of 51, he only went to war for the first time, his first stop was Changsha in China, his soldiers advised him that Changsha was a complex terrain, do not fight, Anan only listened, the result was beaten to lose his armor, most of the dead and wounded, and afterwards actually reported to Japan that they had conquered the Telegram of Changsha. Became an international joke. What's even funnier is that Anan not only can't fight a war, he can't even commit suicide, before the surrender of Japan in 1945, Anan wanted to commit suicide in fear of sin, and as a result, he did not succeed twice, and finally "committed suicide" with the help of his brother-in-law.
Anan is the only one
Holding a letter of recommendation from Anan, Kishi Nobusuke went to find banhuan seishiro, then chief of staff of the Kwantung Army Command, and began to say with great shame that he had come to pseudo-Manchuria not because he could not mix in Japan, but to develop Manchuria's economy and realize the so-called "integration of Japan and Manchuria." With the support of the army, Kishi Nobusuke was naturally satisfied, and in less than a year since taking office in October 1936, he set up 22 committees, served as chairman of the committee, and almost all the economic power was in his own hands, and then began to establish another economic zone of Japan in puppet Manchuria and implement a controlled economy.
The controlled economy was an economic means used by Japan during the war, all the resources were collected uniformly, and then distributed uniformly, and the people of the northeast at that time could only get a little bit of daily necessities such as grain and cotton, and the rest were sent to the front line to supply the war needs. I believe everyone can see that Kishi Nobusuke's controlled economy is essentially to serve the expansion of the war, and the larger the scale of the war, the more obvious the effect of his controlled economy will be. At this time, Kishi Nobusuke was waiting for an officer who could maximize his controlled economy, and in March 1937, Kishi Nobusuke was waiting for this man, his name was Hideki Tojo.
Less than half a year after Kishi Nobusuke came to puppet Manchuria, Hideki Tojo came here to serve as the chief of the general staff of the Kwantung Army, becoming the de facto second-in-command of the puppet Manchurian Army, and Hideki Tojo was very belligerent and advocated expanding the war, so that Kishi Nobusuke's controlled economy had a greater place to play, so Kishi Nobusuke began to intentionally contact Hideki Tojo, invited him to eat and drink from time to time, and spent a lot of money to make Hideki Tojo happy.
After Kishi Shinsuke leaned on the second in command, he could naturally let go of his hands and feet and do as much as he wanted.
Hideki Tojo
In 1937, Kishi Nobusuke pulled Naoki Hoshino, then the pseudo-Manchurian General Affairs Director, to formulate a five-year plan for the development of Manchuria. This so-called five-year action plan is not the same as our planned economy, it is much bolder, in 1936 the production of pseudo-Manchuria pig iron was only 850,000 tons, the plan actually soared to 4.5 million tons, the production of steel reinforcement in 1936 was only 580,000 tons, the plan soared to 3.16 million tons, completely inconsistent with the actual chaotic planning, and the last to pay the bill is naturally the northeast Chinese. In order to complete those impossible plans, Kishi Shinsuke recruited or abducted labor in large quantities, according to incomplete statistics, a total of 320,000 recruits in 1937, 490,000 in 1938, 985,000 in 1939, and more than 1.3 million in 1940.
I have already said the drawbacks of Japan's industrialization, that is, the endless oppression and exploitation of labor, the treatment of our own people, not to mention the treatment of us, little Japan naturally does everything to the extreme, they send laborers to the mining areas to mine, there is no safety protection measures, there is no food, clothing and warmth, freezing to death and starvation to countless deaths. From 1905 to 1945, more than 300,000 laborers died in the Fushun Coal Mine, and from 1931 to 1945, 74,000 people died in the Xi'an Coal Mine, an average of 50 people died every day.
In order to implement the five-year plan, Kishi Nobusuke also pulled together a chaebol friend he knew in Japan, Nissan boss Yoshisuke Kakegawa, to establish the "Manchuria Heavy Industry Development Co., Ltd.", referred to as "Manye", which is a group specializing in the development of mineral and steel resources in Northeast China, which is essentially a monopoly group. Originally, Kishi Nobusuke's idea was not to establish Manchuria, but to directly bring "Mantetsu" under the supervision of pseudo-Manchuria, but it was not successful. The so-called Manchurian Railway, the full name is the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., look at this name, you know that it is in charge of the railway, this company was established in 1906, during the Russo-Japanese War, Japan from Russia took the northeast Of China Changchun to Dalian about 1100 kilometers long railway management rights, in order to operate this railway, specially established this company, the Japanese Emperor also accounted for half of the shares, with this backstage blessing, Mantetsu not only put the entire railway operation of the three eastern provinces into their supervision, He also engaged in economic and intelligence work, and he was simply a Japanese agency in Tohoku.
Mantetsu roared in the northeast for more than twenty years, until the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, and began to face the fate of dismemberment. In 1932, Mantetsu ceded the administrative function to the puppet manchukuo, and after the arrival of Kishi Nobusuke, it set its sights on heavy industry, so it joined forces with Hideki Tojo, chief of the general staff of the Kwantung Army, Naoki Hoshino, director of the general affairs department of the puppet Manchukuo, and Nissan boss Yoshisuke Ukegawa to establish Mantetsu, and forcibly included mantetsu's heavy industry business. After that, Mantetsu's main business was almost only intelligence, and in 1935, Kishi Nobusuke's uncle Matsuoka Hiroshi came to serve as the president of Mantetsu, specializing in intelligence work.
At that time Chinese referred to kishi Nobusuke, Hideki Tojo, Yoshisuke Kakegawa, Naoki Hoshino, and Yosuke Matsuoka as the "Manchurian Gang of Five", the five Japanese who were making waves in the northeast.
The Gang of Five held economic, diplomatic, military, and political power in puppet Manchuria, which was repugnant and unpopular. In order to better enslave Chinese, they also secretly carried out two riotous operations in an attempt to corrupt the people of the northeast, one was to sell opium, and the other was to make movies. The Gang of Five supported two people to specialize in these two things, one is Ganzao Masahiko, the Jianghu people called "pseudo-full night emperor", at that time there was a saying that "during the day it is the Kwantung Army that is in charge, and at night it is Ganfa Masahiko who is in charge", which shows the great ability of Ganzao Masahiko. In 1928, when Zhang Zuolin was killed, there was a lot of commotion, and even Yoshiichi Tanaka, who was the first japanese in Japan at the time, was forced to step down, and this Tanaka Yoshiichi was the drafter of the infamous "Tanaka Sonata", and the sentence "Pre-conquering the world must first conquer China, and pre-conquering China must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia" came from his mouth. Because there was no way to "properly" quell the storm in which Zhang Zuolin was killed, Tanaka was forced to step down in 1929.
In 1937, Gan Shu became the director of the General Affairs Department of the Puppet Manchurian Association, and it has been 9 years since Zhang Zuolin was killed, at this time Zhang Zuolin's coffin has been placed in the temple in Shenyang, the first thing Gan Shu did was to deal with burial matters, he decided to transport Zhang Zuolin's coffin back to Jinzhou and bury it with his first wife, and also spent a lot of money to do propaganda, publicize Japan's humanity, try to buy people's hearts, whether this trick has any effect we don't know, but kishi Shinsuke saw it. I think that this kid is engaged in propaganda one set after another, and maybe it can come in handy in the later stage.
In 1937, puppet Manchuria established a Manchurian Film Association, referred to as Manying, mainly to make some films praising puppet Manchukuo, trying to enslave the minds of the people of Northeast China, but at the beginning of the film was not watched at all, Kishi Nobusuke remembered Masahiko Gan, maybe this boy can, so in 1939 appointed Gan Yan as the chairman of Man Ying. It turned out that Chinese was not so good, and by 1940 the production of pseudo-Manchurian films had increased by 3 times, but it still had no effect, and later after the surrender of Japan, Masahiko Knew that he could not hide and committed suicide by taking poison.
Masahiko Gansu
Compared with making movies, selling opium brought more benefits to pseudo-Manchuria. The Japanese who were responsible for buying opium was called Li Mifu, the Jianghu people called "Opium King", Li Mifu was a reporter in Beiping, China for 15 years, very familiar with Chinese, and also successfully interviewed Zhang Zuolin, Wu Peifu and Chiang Kai-shek, liked to wear a white robe, speak fluent Mandarin, it is said that the first hand information in Japan at that time was from his side. After Kishi Nobusuke came to puppet Manchukuo, he asked him to sell opium privately, and in the then Rehe Province, there was a land of 80,000 mu dedicated to the cultivation of poppies.
Relying on the sale of opium, in 1941 alone, 220 tons of opium were sold, making a profit of 300 million yuan, equivalent to the annual budget of the Wang puppet government at that time. The money earned from selling opium was used to feed the puppet Manchukuo and Kwantung Army, and some of the money was used as a political donation by Kishi Nobusuke, who helped him raise 30 million yen when Hideki Tojo elected prime minister in 1941, and kishi asked Rimi for 5 million yen when he came to power. After his defeat, Satomi was also classified as a Class A war criminal like Kishi Nobusuke, but was also "miraculously" released like Kishi Nobusuke.
On the one hand, relying on movies to enslave people's hearts, on the other hand, relying on opium to degenerate the soul, Masahiko Andimi Andimi fu are like the "night and fog" of Manchuria, which have long spread in northeast China, refusing to disperse, so that people cannot see the dawn and cannot see hope. Behind them are 5 bloodthirsty monsters whose target is not only the northeast, but also the whole of China.
Just when Kishi Nobusuke was bent on economic development, the "war maniac" Hideki Tojo was not idle.
In August 1937, with the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, Japan began to invade China in an all-round way, the then chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Hideki Tojo, led an army to invade Chahar Province, massacred the people, and invaded Chahar in less than two months, this battle allowed Hideki Tojo to be quickly transferred to Japan as the deputy officer of the Army Province, and he naturally did not forget to go with him to prostitute and walk birds with Kishi Nobusuke, so in 1939 Kishi Nobusuke was recommended to the quartermaster of the Army Province. Later, after Hideki Tojo became prime minister in 1941, Kishi Nobusuke was promoted to the cabinet and served as Minister of Commerce and Industry, and at this time, Kishi was only 44 years old.
From entering pseudo-Manchuria in 1936 to entering the cabinet in 1941, Kishi Nobusuke spent less than 5 years, it can be said that without his experience in pseudo-Manchuria, he could not rise so fast, but behind all this, there were countless Chinese drenched in blood, countless Chinese people's homes were destroyed, kishi Shinsuke stepped on a pile of human corpses to pave his way to the throne in the future.
However, Hideki Tojo could not have imagined that the person Kishi Nobusuke was going to step on was himself.
After Hideki Tojo became prime minister in 1941, he launched a pearl harbor attack on the United States in less than a month, and the United States was also involved; due to the expansion of the war, Kishi Nobusuke and Hideki Tojo began to increase their aggression against China, trying to obtain the resources needed for the war by "raising war with war" and "using China to control China", but their wishful thinking was wrong, because at this moment the Chinese army began to rise up and fight guerrilla warfare under the guidance of instructors, causing the Japanese army to be defeated and retreated. On the other hand, the U.S. army also fought a small Japanese cry in the Pacific Theater, and by July 1944, the U.S. army was preparing to occupy Saipan, and in view of saipan's important military status, Kishi Nobusuke suggested that Hideki Tojo gather all his strength to fight the U.S. army on Saipan, but Tojo Hideki planned to fight the United States on The Japanese mainland, not taking Kishi's words seriously, and also mocked Kishi Nobusuke as "you civilian officials understand a fart."
This is tolerable to the uncle, the aunt is intolerable, and since then, the two have formed a beam. In fact, it also proves that Hideki Tojo is indeed a simple-minded person, after the United States occupied Saipan in the Pacific, he used the island as a base and drove B-29 bombers to bombard the Japanese mainland indiscriminately, and the Japanese army seemed to have lost.
Seeing that The trend of Tojo has gone, the domestic people began to be dissatisfied with Tojo, have called for him to step down, and even some people plan to assassinate him, Tojo's downfall is sooner or later, once Japan is defeated, Tojo will definitely be liquidated, and there will be no good days for him to be close to him, so Kishi Nobusuke began to plan a way back for himself. In July 1944, Tojo had nowhere to go, there were only two paths in front of him, either resign himself or reorganize the cabinet, but before reorganizing the cabinet, he needed to dissolve the cabinet and let all the cabinet members resign, and The Tojo trustee went to ask Kishi Nobusuke to resign, at this time Kishi Nobusuke, who had always been close to him, suddenly turned his face, refused to resign, and even said loudly that he wanted to resign, asking Hideki Tojo and the entire cabinet to resign together. Seeing that there was no hope of restructuring the cabinet, Tojo could only resign with the cabinet members, and it can be said that Kishi Nobusuke "made a huge contribution" when he forced Tojo to step down, and because of this incident, the Tokyo court later found that Kishi Nobusuke and Hideki Tojo had a vendetta during the investigation, which also laid the groundwork for kishi Nobusuke's acquittal.
In August 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and a month later, the Allies announced the first batch of Class A war criminals, Kishi Nobusuke was impressively listed, and within a few days, Kishi was arrested and taken to Sugamo Prison, where Kishi later recalled that he thought he would never come back. But in fact, he only spent three years in Sugamo Prison, and on November 12, 1948, the day after all 28 Class A war criminals led by Hideki Tojo were executed, Kishi Washi was released for "meritorious reporting." It is hard to imagine that such a war criminal who has committed countless crimes can be released, and the reason is that the world pattern in which he was living at that time has become a Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the United States is worried that if it suppresses Japan too deeply, it will be doomed if it falls to the Soviet Union, so sub-militarist right-wing elements like Kishi Nobusuke naturally have the privilege of becoming "fish that slipped through the net."
Class-3 A war criminals return to politics
When Kishi was released in 1948, he was 52 years old, and at the age of knowing his destiny, thanks to his anti-communist stance, after the end of World War II, the Class A war criminal behind Hideki Tojo was able to be acquitted. The year after Kishi's release, he founded the Miyama Society in Tokyo, gathered right-wingers and downcast politicians, and began to plan to return to politics. In 1950, Kishi Nobusuke saw that his daughter Yoko was 22 years old, and began to look for a marriage partner for him everywhere, and after being introduced, he took a fancy to a 27-year-old boy who worked at the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, and in 1952, he gave birth to his eldest son, Abe Kanshin, and in 1954 gave birth to his second son, Shinzo Abe.
Shintaro Abe
In 1950, when Kishi Nobusuke was marrying his daughter, war broke out in Korea next door to Japan, and this Korean War made the United States see the strength of the Chinese Communist Party and let them start to be wary of China while being wary of the Soviet Union, so MacArthur began to "clean up the Communists" in Japan and let shigeru Yoshida, then prime minister, release more than 3,000 Japanese war criminals. In 1951, the United States, Britain, and France signed the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Japan-US Security Treaty with Japan behind China's back, turning Japan into a subordinate country of the United States and expanding its military supply.
In 1953, Kishi was successfully elected to parliament by virtue of his political team in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and formed the Democratic Party of 1954, and in 1955, he merged the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democratic Party and became the secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, ranking fourth in the Liberal Democratic Party. In front of Kishi Nobusuke, hatoyama Ichiro, who was sometimes the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, as well as Takeho Ogata and Ishibashi Sasan, supposedly did not take the turn so quickly. But sometimes if people step on, luck is really very good, in 1956 Hatoyama Ichiro was ready to abdicate, before it was Ogata Takeho's turn, he burped, and finally it was Ishibashi's turn to stand on the mountain, but this guy was not in good health, and resigned due to illness within a few months of taking office, and as a result, Kishi Nobusuke, who was waiting on the sidelines, laughed like a fool and happily became the 56th Prime Minister of Japan in 1957.
It is absurd that a World War II Class-A war criminal became a national servant, but it still happened in Japan, and behind all this is the united states to prevent the Soviet Union and China from becoming strong, as a militarist who has been anti-communist since childhood, Kishi Nobusuke was naturally pushed to the front of the stage. A generation of ugly men, Nobusuke Kishi, naturally lived up to the expectations of the United States, and since Kishi Nobusuke came to power, a series of anti-China and anti-communist operations have been continuously staged.
In February 1957, Kishi Nobusuke's cabinet was formed, most of which were World War II war criminals, typical right-wingers, including a man named Hiroyoshi Nazuo, who was then the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, who was responsible for falsifying Japanese history textbooks and beautifying Japan's war of aggression.
In April 1957, Kishi nobusuke began paying homage to the Yasukuni Shrine.
On May 20, 1957, Kishi Nobusuke began to visit Southeast Asian countries, preaching the "China threat theory" everywhere in an attempt to unite with Southeast Asian countries to achieve the so-called "Greater Asia Doctrine". In addition, Kishi Nobusuke also went to Taiwan Province of China to meet Chiang Kai-shek, which was japan's first visit to Taiwan Province since World War II.
In June 1957, Kishi openly said at a press conference that he "does not recognize the Ccp, and even added to the joint declaration with the United States that "the Japanese Prime Minister and the President of the United States reach a consensus on the China issue."
In April 1958, the Sino-Japanese Friendship Association held a stamp exhibition in Nagasaki, Japan, because the Chinese flag was hoisted at the scene, and the Japanese right-wingers were dissatisfied and broke into the venue to tear down the Chinese flag, causing Sino-Japanese relations to fall to a low point.
In 1959, Kishi decided to include Class B and Class C war criminals from World War II in the yasukuni shrine.
In 1960, Japan built a mausoleum containing the ashes of seven Class-A war criminals who committed the most heinous crimes, including Hideki Tojo, Seitaro Itagawa, and Ishigen Matsui, and Nobusuke Kishi actually wrote the inscription "Temple of the Seven Martyrs of the Martyrdom" for this cemetery, describing these demons who killed the people of other countries as martyrs of martyrdom.
In addition to being anti-communist and anti-China, Kishi Nobusuke has two important things to do when he comes to power, one is to revise the "Japan-US Security Treaty" and the other is to amend the Constitution.
Let's start with amending the Constitution. In May 1946, Japan adopted the Constitution of Japan, stipulating the three principles of sovereignty over the people, renunciation of war, and protection of the basic human rights of citizens, of which the abandonment of war almost destroyed Kishi's dream of trying to reload Japan's armaments. After Kishi Came to power, he established the Constitutional Inquiry Council in August 1958 to amend the Constitution. However, against the wishes of most Japanese people, Kishi Shinsuke did not complete the matter of constitutional revision until his death, and later became something that his grandson Shinzo Abe had been working hard to do since he came to power.
Since it is not so easy to amend the constitution, Kishi Nobusuke intends to "save the country by curve" and try to revive militarism by amending the Japan-US Security Treaty. The "Japan-U.S. Security Treaty" was signed in 1951, stipulating that Japan should provide military bases to the U.S. military unconditionally, the U.S. military has the right to suppress riots in Japan, the U.S. military stationed in Japan has extraterritorial jurisdiction, and in 1952 the United States even required Japan to provide $155 million a year in defense funds for the U.S. military. But because Japan was in ruins after World War II, it could only cling to the thighs of american fathers and steal life, so it gritted its teeth and signed. But in fact, this treaty is unfavorable to Kishi Nobusuke's implementation of what he calls "Greater Asiaism", after all, Japan has become a subordinate country of the United States, and it is impossible to be the real boss in Asia.
In 1955, Nobusuke Kishi, who had not yet served as prime minister, accompanied Foreign Minister Aoi Shigemitsu to the United States to request a change in the treaty, but was ruthlessly refused. In June 1957, after Kishi became prime minister, he went to see U.S. President Eisenhower and asked for a change in the treaty, but Eisenhower ignored him. With the support of the United States to increase Japan's economic strength step by step, Kishi Nobusuke felt that the time was ripe, in October 1958 to the United States to negotiate, and this time, the United States obviously did not want to fight with Japan too stiff, so the two sides negotiated for a year and three months, a total of 25 consultations and modifications, and finally reached an agreement in December 1959, in January 1960 Kishi Nobusuke went to Washington to sign a new Japan-US security treaty, scheduled to enter into force in June.
The new Japan-U.S. security treaty abolished the right of the United States to suppress domestic unrest in Japan, gave Japan great autonomy, and stipulated that Japan could develop its own defense forces in order to maintain the security of the country and the Far East, which implied that Japanese militarism could be revived at any time, and for the Japanese people who were eager for peace, this revision undoubtedly put Japan in a dangerous situation. What is even more infuriating is that Taiwan is also included in the Category of the Far East, infringing on the territorial security of the mainland.
After Kishi Nobusuke returned to China, he was immediately protested by the Japanese people, and since the signing of the contract in January 1960, 23 protests have broken out in a row, ranging from a few million to tens of millions of people, but this does not stop Kishi's determination to try to revive militarism, and he once said that even at the cost of his own political and personal lives, he must make the treaty passable. In May 1960, Kishi forcibly ratified the adoption of the new Japan-U.S. security treaty in the absence of opposition parties, and it is said that in order to prevent popular opposition, Kishi also privately cooperated with the Yamaguchi Group, Japan's largest gangster, to help suppress the people. The new security treaty was adopted in this situation and came into force in June 1960, but Kishi Nobusuke did not last long, and forced the passage of the new security treaty to anger most Japanese, and on July 14, 1960, Kishi was assassinated at a reception for the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Isamu Ikeda, but unfortunately did not hit the point, and a day later, Kishi resigned in disgrace.
In addition to the fear of death, Kishi Nobusuke resigned another important reason, that is, US President Eisenhower is about to visit Japan, the original visit time is 1959, because at that time the Japanese people protests are frequent, Kishi Nobusuke licked his cheeky face and begged the American father to wait for the new security treaty to take effect again, and now that the treaty is in effect, the US president will not be able to refuse again, but he is worried that there will be some accidents after Eisenhower comes, so Kishi Nobusuke can only grievance himself and calm the people's anger by resigning. Let Eisenhower come happily, go happily, leave no regrets, and not lose a single hair.
After all, it wasn't just the president of the United States, it was his reborn parents. For the safety of American dad, a Japanese prime minister is nothing, so on July 15, 1960, a generation of "Showa demons" and Japan's ugly man Kishi Nobusuke officially fell from the altar of the Japanese prime minister.
The "Showa Demon" is dead
After Kishi's resignation, he was not idle at all, and his heart that tried to oppose communism and China and revive Japanese militarism was always beating. In the 10 years from 1961 to 1970, he came to Taiwan Province of China seven times to participate in Chiang Kai-shek's "pseudo-presidential" post, plotted anti-communist affairs with Chiang Kai-shek, and in 1971 ran to the United States to make a speech opposing the resumption of sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, arousing the dissatisfaction of the people of the two countries. However, it turned out that these were just tricks of the jumping beam clown, in 1972 US President Nixon visited China, China and the United States formally established diplomatic relations, it is said that 3 minutes before the release of the communiqué, Nixon only called and then Japanese Prime Minister Sato Eisaku said a bit, and then rushed to establish diplomatic relations with China, leaving Sato in vain in the wind messy.
Seeing that American fathers have established diplomatic relations with China, Japan cannot do nothing, and naturally it must follow the rhythm of American fathers. In 1972, as soon as Nixon left on his front foot, Sato Eisaku brought a message to say that he wanted to visit China, but was rejected by Premier Zhou because of Sato's capriciousness. This Sato is Kishi Nobusuke's younger brother, why one surname is Kishi, the other is Sato, because Kishi Nobusuke was adopted by Kishi when he was a child, and his surname was changed to Kishi. These two brothers are not good things, Sato Eisaku in addition to looking a little more handsome than his brother, other aspects are not much better, he can step by step to the position of Kishi Nobusuke's resources, so he is also an anti-China small expert, from the beginning is a variety of riotous operations, during his reign a total of 11 times to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, more ruthless than his brother. In particular, when China was preparing to return to the United Nations in 1971, Japan voted against it and even agreed to let Taiwan Province represent China in normal affairs.
How can such a villain establish diplomatic relations in power, so until Sato Eisaku stepped down, China and Japan did not establish diplomatic relations, and it was not until the next Tanaka Kakuei came to power that China and Japan formally established diplomatic relations in 1974. At this time, Kishi Nobusuke was almost 80 years old, and it was reasonable to say that at this time, the person who had already had an old bone would settle down, but Kishi Nobusuke was still unwilling and tried to set off some more storms.
In 1982, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the puppet state of Manchukuo, the 86-year-old Kishi Nobusuke gathered some right-wingers to raise 50 million yen and established the "Monument to the Founding of Manchuria" at fuji cemetery in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, to summon the soul of the "puppet Manchukuo", Kishi Nobusuke claimed: "They established 'Manchukuo' at that time, they wanted to establish an ideal country of harmony among the five ethnic groups, and the purpose of this monument was to clarify the essence of its 'no aggression' and pass on the 'ideal and its achievements' of invading northeast China to future generations." It's really funny, and if you can talk about the invasion of China so grandly, you really can't find a second person. On August 27 of the same year, the mainland's People's Daily published an article entitled "Stopping Kishi Nobusuke's Absurd Behavior," denouncing and exposing Kishi's anti-China behavior.
On August 7, 1987, the 91-year-old Kishi Nobusuke could no longer toss and turn and fell ill and died. This extreme right-winger who stirred up the storm in China and Japan and was bent on reviving Japanese militarism finally died, and his whole life was either pursuing militarism or on the road to reviving militarism, relying on extremely strong political and economic means and Hideki Tojo and others to turn Japan into a war machine, killing countless Chinese, and after the war Kishi Nobusuke was able to rely on his super predictive ability to meet between Japan and the United States, and even jumped from a war criminal to a prime minister, which has to be said to be a strange flower in Japanese political circles. Kishi Nobusuke's terrible thing is not only that he makes waves when he is alive, but also that he is still at peace after his death.
Due to his strong political capital, Kishi's son-in-law, Shintaro Abe, managed to climb from a small reporter to the seat of the Japanese foreign minister, but Jintaro did not have the courage to become prime minister as he wished, and Kishi could only pin his hopes on his grandson Shinzo Abe. Kishi Shinsuke arranged Abe Shinzo to a Nariki College, which is claimed to be a school that includes one-stop service from elementary school, middle school to university, but in fact, this school is the cradle of cultivating Japanese militarism, at that time there was a "Shrine of Retribution", which is the symbol of Japanese militarism, in 1964 this school set up a "Memorial Monument for the Dead of War" to commemorate those Japanese who died during World War II.
Shinzo Abe
Later, Abe Shinzo was elected as the youngest prime minister of Japan, naturally inseparable from the cultivation and connections of his grandfather Kishi Nobusuke, and Abe Shinzo did not forget the last wish of his grandfather Kishi Nobusuke, the dead old man's biggest wish in this life is to amend the constitution, but unfortunately it has not been realized. After Abe Came to power, he also regarded this as his mission, but after all, the revision of the constitution shook the fundamentals, went against the wishes of the majority of the Japanese people, and was not something that Abe could modify casually if he wanted to, so Abe could only use the "curve to save the country" method to reload the armament like Kishi Nobusuke. In 2015, Shinzo Abe proposed a new security law, which stipulates that Japan will lift the ban on collective self-defense, and in the future, as long as other countries are attacked by force, even if Japan is not directly attacked, they can fight back together. The new security law was opposed by the Japanese public, and on August 30, 2015, 100,000 people in Japan marched in protest, but it was finally forcibly passed and officially implemented in 2016.
History is always strikingly similar, 46 years ago Kishi Shinsuke forcibly passed the new Japan-US security treaty, 46 years later Abe Shinzo forcibly passed the new security law, this old and young always like to do something in the name of "security" to undermine the world's security, disregarding the safety of the people. However, under the tide of the global community of destiny, these beam-jumping clowns can't set off much wind and waves after all, leaving a stinking insult for thousands of years.
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Author: Shen Cheng Fenglin
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