Today is August 15, the historical day, Japan officially announced its unconditional surrender, and World War II ended. In the past two years, on this day, the Internet has circulated a "Japan lost" meme, screenshots from Doraemon's "Elephants and Uncles" episode.
Three versions of the Japanese defeated the meme
While admiring Doraemon's author Fujiko F Fujio respecting history and reflecting on the war, everyone does not know that there is a sad story hidden behind this anime.
The elephant "Waffle" in the anime is based on the elephant "Hanako", who lives at tokyo's Ueno Zoo, and was a star animal in the zoo at the time, and was popular with children.
In 1943, with the Allied counterattack in the Pacific Theater, the war finally extended to the Japanese mainland.
The justice of heavenly descent shown in the Doraemon anime!
In order to prevent the bombing from causing damage to the zoo's houses, causing the beasts inside to flee, causing a greater threat, the Japanese government issued the "Beast Execution Order" to execute all the large beasts in the zoo. It is worth mentioning that the beasts of prey such as lions, tigers and leopards in the Beiping Zoo in the occupied area at that time did not escape the execution of this order
Doraemon animation reflects the execution of a zoo beast
The docile "Hanako" has too thick skin to penetrate the poisonous needle, and it is very clever to distinguish poisonous food, and finally starves to death in the zoo due to lack of food.
In real history, people have not been able to save hanako's life
In post-war Japanese literary and artistic works, these poor elephants have also been written into texts, such as the Japanese writer Yukio Toike's "Poor Elephant"
In World War II, the story of the other elephant is a happy reunion ending, it was born in the jungles of Burma, and was requisitioned by the Japanese army to transport supplies. In 1944, the Chinese army in India in the process of counter-attacking Burma to rescue it, since then it became a member of the new army, followed the army counterattack back to China, in 1947, it followed General Sun Liren across the strait, came to Taiwan, has been there ever since, in 2003, it died at the age of 86, is one of the longest-lived captive elephants, it is the eternal memory of many Taiwanese childhood, the elephant "Lin Wang"
Compared with the elephant "Hanako", who was starved to death by the Japanese fascists, the elephant "Lin Wang" is undoubtedly very lucky, if it is not rescued by the Chinese army in Burma, then what awaits it may be killed by the Japanese army in short food as military food.