Source: Jun Zhengping Studio, Chinese military horn
From 21 to 23 April, Japan's Yasukuni Shrine held the so-called "Spring Festival." Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the speakers of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors offered offerings to the Yasukuni Shrine on 21 July, and individual cabinet members went to pay their respects.
The Yasukuni Shrine is a spiritual tool and symbol of the war of aggression launched by Japanese militarism, enshrines 14 Class A war criminals who were seriously responsible for that war of aggression, and enshrines more than 1,000 Class B and C war criminals, and about 2.3 million people died in the war of aggression against China and the Pacific War among the 2.46 million people on the list. It can be said that the attitude toward the Yasukuni Shrine is the attitude toward the history of aggression, the attitude toward the world anti-fascist war, and the attitude toward human justice and conscience.
And the attitude of Japanese politicians is undoubtedly outrageous. How absurd it is that, on the one hand, the Japanese Government has revisited the old dream of militarism in the form of such a "great sacrifice," ignoring its own war crimes of aggression and not in the slightest regard for the countries that have been deeply harmed by its acts of aggression; on the other hand, the Japanese political circles have wantonly proclaimed that they are the victims of the war, meticulously constructed the image of the victims, and even completely eliminated from the textbooks its own heinous crimes of burning, killing, and looting against China, leaving only the content of its own beatings, in a vain attempt to turn the viewpoint that "Japan is a victim of the war" into the mainstream of society.
At the end of March, the biographical film "Oppenheimer", the father of the atomic bomb, was released in Japan. The film tells the story of Oppenheimer's leadership of the development of the atomic bomb "during World War II" and the story of his unfair hearings after the end of World War II. After the release of the film, it aroused the dissatisfaction of some Japanese netizens, who accused the film of only discussing the nuclear bombing of Japan from the perspective of "perpetrators". Some Japanese scholars criticized the war crimes of the United States dropping atomic bombs, but the movie "Oppenheimer" did not speak out for the "Japanese victims".
Because this kind of vague cause and effect and backlash against the United States is too outrageous, American netizens decided to find out the historical facts of Japan's war during World War II, and "encircled and suppressed" this Japanese scholar in the comment area, but unexpectedly it became a popular science of Japanese crimes. American netizens picked up various crimes during Japan's invasion of China, used historical pictures and data to "hammer" Japan, and keywords such as Unit 731 and the Nanjing Massacre appeared on overseas social media hot searches, and many bloggers made videos of what they knew more about history and uploaded them to TikTok. For the first time, foreign netizens were shocked to learn about the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army during its invasion of China. Some netizens questioned: How does Japan, which created the "Nanjing Massacre," carried out horrific human experiments, and abducted hundreds of thousands of Asian women as "comfort women" for the Japanese army, feel about the crimes it has committed? Does it feel guilty about those victims? Is it worthy of its own conscience?
Obviously, in response to netizens' questions, the actions of Japanese politicians are themselves answers, and the word "shameless" is vividly interpreted. Needless to say, Japan has repeatedly made a fuss about the Yasukuni Shrine issue, and its repeated worship has undoubtedly sprinkled another handful of salt on the wounds of the victims; on the issue of comfort women, the Japanese Government has so far failed to recognize its national responsibility, has always denied "coercion," and even allowed right-wingers to do everything possible to smear the comfort women victims in a vain attempt to achieve "death without proof of death" through the trick of delaying time until all the victims die They even beautify the history of aggression in history textbooks, question the number of 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre, and attempt to prove the "inaccuracy" and "non-objectivity" of the facts on the basis of the "inaccuracy" and "non-objectivity" of the number of people, and then define the Nanjing Massacre from an objective fact as the subjectively constructed "memory of the victims" of the victims, thus denying the existence of the facts of the massacre......
Instead of confronting and reflecting on its mistakes, Japan, which claims to be a "victim," has made "compensation" for its own harmful acts, but has blatantly covered up and denied its mistakes, which is a contempt for and trampling on international justice and a provocation to the peace of mankind. With all these acts, it is impossible not to wonder whether Japan is going to turn back the clock on history and whether it wants to go back to the old path of war.
Time is silent, but it has witnessed everything. In the catastrophe of mankind 70 or 80 years ago, Japanese militarism inflicted indelible pain on the Chinese nation and the people of various Asian countries. History will not change with the changes of the times, and facts will not disappear with clever denial. Any perverse and unscrupulous attempt to falsify history, deny atrocities, and overturn the case of the war of aggression will not only be rejected by the 1.4 billion Chinese people, but will also be condemned and spurned by all peace-loving and justice-loving people in the world.
There was a news item that sparked heated discussions on the Internet. Evan Kyle, the owner of a pawn shop in the United States, posted a video on his social account, saying that he found a photo album from World War II that contained a large number of photos of the Japanese invasion of China. He later gave the album to the Chinese Consulate in Chicago. He said: "The history recorded in the album took place in China, which is very important for China!"
Evan's donation is an act of kindness by a peace-loving person. We believe that there are many more such people in the world. Like the Chinese, they firmly believe in the facts and tirelessly seek the truth of history. As Evan puts it, that history is "very important to China," and not only that, but it is also important to the world. Today's peace was won by the people of the whole world through the international anti-fascist war, and it was bought by the people of the whole world with blood and tears. Japanese militarism is the common enemy of all mankind, and this is an ironclad lesson that has been verified by blood, and if it is allowed to recur, it will inevitably hurt the people of the whole world in the end. No peace-loving person, any person with a conscience, would allow such a thing to happen.
President Xi profoundly pointed out that any remarks denying the history of aggression or even beautifying the war of aggression and colonial rule cannot but arouse great indignation, severe condemnation, and high vigilance among the Chinese people and the people of Asian countries. Japan should understand that only by seriously reflecting on its history of aggression and always keeping in mind the lessons of history can it avoid going further and further down the wrong road and win the trust of its Asian neighbors and the international community.
(Produced by Jun Zhengping Studio, China Military Trumpet)