On October 17, Kishida Fumio, in the name of the current prime minister, offered sacrifices to the Yasukuni Shrine (cè). On the same day, Kishida Fumio's former prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, personally visited the Yasukuni Shrine (cè). On October 14, Kishida's predecessor, Shinzo Abe, also visited the shrine.
Although Japan has publicly apologized twice since the end of World War II, former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and Emperor Akihito, in fact, the government and the public have never really admitted and repented of war crimes.
Instead of acknowledging the uncountable war crimes committed against the Chinese people, Japan has gone further and further down the anti-China road. Why is that?
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is - unwilling, is the gambler's unwillingness.
To use an analogy. Once upon a time, Japan was like a poor egg who gambled well. Suddenly, the day's gambling skills were slightly successful, so I tried to make a small fight. Who knows that the is lucky, the gamble is winning, and after the painstaking operation, it already has hundreds of millions of family assets.
If he stops here, it is the peak of his life. But how can the gambler easily take over, not to mention that the gambler at this time is already full of self-confidence, thinking that he is invincible in the world. He gambled the biggest game he had accumulated over the years. The end is naturally to lose clean and slippery, and the rest of his life can only be spent in lamentations and lamentations.
So imagine, this gambler's life has been obsessed with, grumpy will be remorse for his greed and risk-taking, should not go to gamble this last game?
The answer is of course not, because he is not a normal person, he is a gambler. As a gambler, he must have been nagging and obsessing over the rest of his life, and he would only have the most brilliant billionaire he ever had and the more he would have if he did not lose the last game.
That is to say, the gambler who loses the family will not think that he is wrong to gamble, but will only think that the opponent is wrong, and the fault is that the opponent won him.
This is the psychology of the right wing in post-war Japan, and probably the psychology of most Japanese people.
Japan is that gambler, and this last big gamble is an all-out invasion of China.
Since the Meiji Restoration, since the "Peony Society Incident", it has experienced large and small "gambling" in the decades of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the Sino-Japanese War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the First World War. Japan really has possessions that are much larger than four small islands.
Before the July 7 Incident, Japan "legally" owned the Kuril Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and its affiliated islands, the Penghu Islands, the southern sakhalin Islands, and the entire Korean Peninsula, and actually occupied northeast China and northern China, and most likely incorporated northeast China into its territory (pictured). At that time, Japan's land area was more than 670,000 square kilometers, and it actually controlled more than 1.1 million square kilometers of land in northeast China. The area of the Japanese mainland is only 378,000 square kilometers.
Look at Japan's international status at that time. In Asia, Japan is the number one power politically, economically, and militarily, and is well ahead of other Asian countries. Even internationally, Japan was one of the few "great powers" at that time. It was one of the "Big Ten" of the victorious powers of the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference. The Washington Naval Treaty made Japan the "legal" third naval power in the world. Economically, in 1937, Japan's total GDP ranked sixth in the world, with a nearly complete industrial chain and a rich and huge number of natural resources on the encroached land. All in all, before the all-out invasion of China, Japan was a veritable world power, with the ability and status to compete with the United States in Asia and the Pacific, and it also had a decisive right to speak in the world.
If Japan had not launched a full-scale invasion of China, it would most likely not have joined the Axis group and thus joined World War II in the future. A Japan that did not experience the fires of World War II will fully enjoy the benefits of World War II and the post-war after World War II, and will most likely become one of the "three powers" alongside the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is even more fatal is that if Japan maintains such territory and strength, it will achieve comprehensive suppression of China and may gradually encroach on or even dismember China. In terms of oceans, Sakhalin Island - Kuril Islands - Korean Peninsula - Japanese mainland - Ryukyu Islands - Taiwan Penghu, this is the real first "island chain", deadlocked in the southeast and southeast directions of China. On land, China has to be close to its neighbors on two continents. For China, the threat of a land neighbor, Japan, is much more immediate and enormous than that of its maritime neighbor.
Just think, if today's China is facing such a bad geopolitical pattern, it is estimated that maintaining the most basic stability may be a luxury.
But the Japanese character of the robber + gambler made them lose, lose the family bottom, lose the "if".
Today, Japan is indeed one of the top countries in the world economically. Politically and militarily, there have been repeated attempts to strike at the goals of great powers, but only attempts. For it has degenerated into an "abnormal state" without full sovereignty, a defeated fascist state that has not yet returned to its normal status.
After Defeating Japan, China quickly got rid of the humiliating history of having foreign troops stationed on its homeland, and Because of its defeat, Japan had to smile and wait for the arrival and rampage of American soldiers. When the turtle grandson still has to be worried, bow down to the ear, do not dare to fight back, scold do not dare to return the mouth.
The all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression from 1937 to 1945 really caused the entire Chinese nation to suffer immeasurable and huge losses. This loss was caused by the Japanese militarist clique, and by the participation of the vast majority of the Japanese people (the aggressive enthusiasm of the Japanese people at the bottom was not necessarily weaker than that of their emperors and upper-class officers). This debt, they have not been able to pay off for generations to come.
The significance of the victory in the all-out war of resistance was not only that the aggressors were defeated and the homeland was restored. More crucially, it was to remove Japan's pants and return it to its original form, clearing the way for China's subsequent development and rise (most of the obstacles were cleared, and the remaining small number of obstacles were resolved in the Korean War; and a small part was completely resolved by the day of reunification).
And that means. If Japan had not launched a war of aggression against China, or had not been defeated in World War II. Well, today's Japan is most likely to be the largest power in East Asia or even the world's largest country with 670,000 square kilometers or even 1.77 million square kilometers.
And this is the assumption that Japan has always struggled with. They do not believe that the reason for losing the "most brilliant" is their own lack of greed and military adventure, but blame the indomitability and non-surrender of the Chinese people.
In Japan's view, if Chinese had easily succumbed to Japanese aggression. Japan today will become the world's number one power. This is why they hate China now, and it is also the reason why they do not admit guilt or admit defeat.
If you look at this problem with the thinking and eyes of a normal person. The reasons why Japan lost the gamble were a long list of war criminals such as Hideki Tojo, Sadao Araki, Hiroshi Hirota, and many others. But ironically, these real Sinners of Japan are now enjoying the worship of the four seasons at the Yasukuni Shrine (cè).
Because of the stupid and wrong launch of all-out aggression against China, we have lost all our belongings and fallen into the dilemma of today's "abnormal country". Not reflecting on themselves but hating China at all times in a vain attempt to retaliate, this is also the logic of bastard robbers that only black-hearted bastard robbers have.
Today's China is already a promising prospect for development. However, thousands and thousands of people cannot ignore the green wolf eyes in the east. Behind these green eyes there was greedy saliva and sharp claws that had been sharpening.