If there is one of the three countries of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan, it must be Japan. There is no way, Japan's land and geography are the worst, so bad that it can be called chicken ribs. What the specific difference looks like, the following is a detailed analysis.
Japan is an island nation with a narrow territory and extremely scarce resources. The lack of mineral resources is enough, but the Japanese do not even have enough rice, the staple food. Even because of the shortage of rice, there was a riot in Japan in which two million people participated, the "1918 Rice Riot".
Not only is Japan a small country with few resources, but it is also prone to many disasters, with frequent volcanoes, earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis, especially earthquakes.
For example, the Great Kanto Earthquake that occurred in September 1923 not only killed more than 100,000 people, but also damaged countless industrial facilities and severely damaged the Japanese economy.
Tragically, Japan also caught up with the Great Depression, but the Japanese did not have the two brushes of Hitler, Roosevelt and Stalin, and could only sit back and watch their industry and economy at the level of a second-rate power worsen.
The congenital conditions are extremely poor, the results of the acquired efforts are not too good, and Japan still has the idea of being the boss of Asia, the pressure on the Japanese is indeed not small, but this pressure cannot be relieved by fishing in the sea.
With the usual belligerent mentality and nouveau riche mentality of the Japanese, the only way is to take off their pants and play militarism, desperately develop the military industry (for example, Japan successfully developed the world's first aircraft carrier in 1922), carry out foreign expansion, and loot from neighbors Korea and China.
Let's not talk about the Japanese bullying North Korea.
It is said that after Japan entered Northeast China through the "First Sino-Japanese War" and the "Russo-Japanese War", it completely ignored the reality that it was still a poor country at that time, and repeatedly increased its investment and borrowing in China, especially in Northeast China, and almost went bankrupt.
Japan is like a crazy gambler who dares to spend desperately even though he doesn't have much money. The Japanese spend money so frantically, of course, for their purposes. Their purpose is both realistic and evil – to make Northeast China their new home.
However, the problem is that Japan's investment in China accounts for nearly 90 percent of its total overseas investment, resulting in its economic development being heavily dependent on China's profits and resources.
Therefore, on the China issue, the contradictions between Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States cannot be reconciled. Japan is not tearing up its face with each other at the moment because it is not yet time for the final showdown.
Japan's leader at this time was Emperor Hirohito, a dangerous man with great ambitions and extreme insidiousness.
Hirohito's grandfather, Emperor Meiji Muhito, was in average physical condition, and died of uremia after only living 60 years old, and his father, Emperor Taisho Emperor Yoshihito, was in even worse physical condition, suffering from meningitis when he was a child, suffering from cerebral thrombosis in middle age, and successfully upgraded to mental illness at the age of 40, and hung up at the age of 47. But the strange thing is that Hirohito actually lived to be 88 years old, and he reigned for nearly 70 years, making him the longest-reigning emperor. Thinking about it, this must be the light of his grandfather and father's short life.
According to the power structure of a constitutional monarchy, theoretically the emperor has no real power, and the cabinet is the real power-holder.
But the rules are dead, people are alive, and there are people who don't play cards according to the rules at any time. The guy I want to talk about here who doesn't follow the rules is Emperor Meiji. In the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, he opened a back door for himself - the right to command the navy and the army, and the power to decide on the establishment and strength of the army belonged to the emperor. In other words, from the beginning of Emperor Meiji to the end of World War II, the three emperors of Japan were able to intervene in military affairs and had the right to personnel personnel in the military.
Specifically, the Japanese military department – the highest direct command organs of the Japanese army and navy (Army General Staff Headquarters and Navy Command Department) and military decision-making organs (Army Ministry, Navy Ministry) – are independent of the Cabinet and Parliament and are directly accountable to the emperor.
Muren's ability is very strong, the military power is in hand, and his words count. But his son Kashihito was not good, because he had a problem with his head, no one treated him, the emperor, as a green onion, and the power gradually fell into the hands of the Meiji Restoration veteran, the powerful minister Yama Prefecture Aritomo, who monopolized the power of the military department.
After the extremely ambitious Hirohito succeeded to the throne, he naturally couldn't tolerate Yama Prefecture Youtomo continuing to stay in the position of the minister, because he also liked power, and he couldn't tolerate someone sitting in that seat pointing fingers at him, and he wanted to drive the other party away!
However, it's okay to think about this idea occasionally, but it can't be done in real time, because he doesn't have enough strength at hand, and it's easy to catch up with the other party and be driven away. So Hirohito is in great need of allies, and he desperately needs someone to stand up and support him.
It should be said that Hirohito's luck was good, and at this time, a group of army officers of the Shaozhuang faction, who were later called the "ruling faction", were premeditated and purposefully rebelled against Yamaguchi Yutomo. Almost all of them graduated from Japan's best military academies - the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Army University, such as the Japanese fascist backbone Nagata Tetsuyama, Okamura Ninji, Toshishiro Ohata, Hideki Tojo, Daisaku Kawamoto, Ishihara Waner, Seishiro Sakagaki, Kenji Dohihara, Ryosuke Isoya, Mijiro Umezu, Ishine Matsui and others are among them.
There are good reasons why these people chose to rebel.
First of all, there is corruption in the personnel of the army, and there is little hope for them to be promoted and raised. At that time, almost all the middle- and high-ranking officers of the Japanese army and navy were the families of the army boss Yama Prefecture Aritomo (Choshu faction) whose hometown was in Choshu and the relationship household of Yamamoto Gonbei, the naval boss whose hometown was in Satsuma (Satsuma faction).
Secondly, these Japanese devils also have their own political ideals.
Most of them had been educated or worked abroad (mainly in Germany) and were well aware of the disparity between Japan and Germany, and between Japan and the United States, so they wanted to overthrow the old Yama Prefecture Aritomo and modernize the military in order to realize their bandit logic blueprint - annexing Manchu and Mongolia abroad, controlling China, establishing a military dictatorship at home, containing the economic decline at home, and quickly strengthening Japan. Sadly, this ideal of theirs was very marketable among the junior officers of the Japanese Army.
Hirohito wants to drive out Yamaguchi Aritomo, and the "ruling faction" also wants to overthrow Yamaguchi Aritomo. Hirohito has status and power, and the "control faction" has the ability and strength, and they have value for each other. The two sides hit it off and launched an attack on the Choshu faction in 1925.
The reason why it was chosen to be launched in 1925 was because of the greatest resistance -- Aritomo Yamaprefecture had been defeated by illness and had already been hanged; second, because Japan's sluggish economy at that time provided a perfect excuse to take action -- disarmament to reduce the financial burden on the state; and third, because Hirohito's teacher and senior of the "ruling faction," Ugaki Kazunari, had finally become the Minister of War.
What reason is there not to do it? Thus, the "Ugaki Disarmament," which is extremely important in Japan's modern history, began. Nearly 2,000 officers from Choshu were purged from the Japanese Army, and those of the "ruling faction" were placed in the military headquarters by Hirohito to hold the rank of section chief (which belonged to a middle-level position).
Hirohito finally took an important step in his grasp of military power.
The Yamato nation is a very strange nation, obviously extremely insecure because of congenital deficiencies, extremely fond of external expansion, but extremely introverted and self-disciplined, extremely fond of step-by-step, so that everything has to be ranked by seniority. For example, in the Japanese military department at that time, almost all of its senior leaders were mediocre people who relied on their seniority.
In fact, it doesn't matter if the ability is poor, after all, the power and status are there, and the right to speak should be able to be held. But the strange thing is that these senior officers in the military department are far less effective in speaking than those young Zhuang officers.
If you think about it, you can figure it out. These young Zhuang officers are capable and powerful, and Hirohito wants to work through them, so it is inevitable that he will indulge them a little. Moreover, these officers did not have enough qualifications and status, and they also needed to realize their own interests in the name of Hirohito's leadership. With Hirohito's acquiescence, these "mulberries" of the island nation of Toei branded themselves as sacred in order to facilitate their work—to serve the emperor and fight for "patriotism." Therefore, once they are provoked, the light one will classify the other party as a "non-national" (equivalent to a traitor in China), and the heavy one will make the other party "dead and dead", even their leader cannot afford to provoke them.
Therefore, in Japan before the end of World War II, decisions were often made by middle-level officers in the military department, and their upper leaders were instead hollowed out, forming a peculiar power structure of "lower than higher".
It is not surprising that those middle- and lower-ranking officers who are not in the military department dare to rebel against the higher-level officers.
I believe you have also seen such a scene in film and television dramas: junior officers go their own way at every turn, murderous, and see blood in vain, while the superior officers dare not provoke these thorns, so they have to make concessions......
In any case, the success of Hirohito and the "ruling faction" in seizing Japan's military decision-making power is definitely an extremely dangerous signal for the people of Asia who want peace.