Japan's frequent declarations of emergencies during the COVID-19 epidemic have emerged, and the "profession" of the unofficial non-governmental organization "self-purging police" has also emerged, but it is more appropriate to say that it is not so much a profession as a "spontaneous whistle-blowing and surveillance atmosphere of residents".
Last May, Nagoya's Osu Shopping Street received thousands of complaints, emails and phone calls.
"Osu Shopping Street is very unpleasant""
"Why do you want to open a business, can you die if you don't open a business?"
"Don't you have a family?" Please let them close the store. ”
"If you don't take care of yourself again, I'll call the police!"
It is reported that under the first emergency declaration in Aichi Prefecture, although shopping streets follow the rules of short-term business and other rules for business, complaint calls and emails continued.
In addition, the 110 alarm system of the Aichi Prefecture Police has also been received
"There are couples flirting outside",
Reports such as "Father and son are playing in the park" and so on.
The county police received Circular No. 110 on the COVID-19 outbreak between April and May, about 400 cases. More than half of them are credited with the small reports of the so-called unofficial civil society organization "Self-Censorship Police".
For some stores that have had to be forced to open for economic reasons during the epidemic,
They also spontaneously organize themselves to take to the streets for "control"... For example, write defamatory and threatening letters:
Even more frightening than contracting a virus is the "eyes of others"
Because Japan is being affected by the epidemic, public opinion and the eyes of others have quietly changed the mentality of many Japanese people, and the feedback received by reporters during street interviews corroborates our views.
"Can't travel." Because they will be accused of infecting others!"
"Going to a movie theater or something like that feels like you're going to be a bad guy..."
"Viruses are also terrible, but other people's eyes seem to be more terrifying than infections."
There was a similar trend in the past, which stemmed from the "armor protection system"?
On the Internet, verbal violence and slanderous behaviors such as "playing in this period should be punished", "the family infected with the new crown is going to get out", "please restrain yourself" and so on, so that every netizen has turned into a "policeman" and run amok.
Forced to conform to the people around them, no individuality is allowed, and in Japanese society under the shroud of the epidemic, the elderly who have experienced the war are worried that "it seems to be back in that era."
A Japanese woman known as a "patriotic woman" during World War II
"The war has begun."
When I heard the news of the start of the Pacific War in December 1941, many of the living old people were not yet 10 years old.
The old man recalled that at that time, in the context of the war, Japan officially established a system called "sui" system. The people formed a "sui group" with about 10 as a group. (We also have armor protection)
隣組組織架构圖
In addition to air defense exercises, food rationing is also carried out in neighboring groups, from the notification of the time and place of the ration to the implementation, which has played a great role. But another important task that neighbors take on is surveillance and whistle-blowing among residents. (Japanese: 隣組密告)
According to the old man's recollection, at that time, the rice in his own home had to be handed over to the state, and even if there were children in the family, it was as much as other people. If not, the neighbors would say in a pleading tone, "Can I take out a little more?" But when it comes to food distribution, the neighbors say, "Wouldn't it be okay to have less?" ”
In short, for those who do not cooperate with national policies, a social atmosphere based on whistle-blowing has slowly formed. The contents of the whistleblower are recorded in the "High Monthly Newspaper" collected by the Aichi Prefectural Library. And the existence of this book is like the Gestapo, creating an atmosphere of terror.
In January 1942, the "Tegao Monthly Newspaper" recorded a 51-year-old man living in Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture, sighing in a nearby bathhouse. "There is a notice that his child died in Singapore, although it is for the sake of the country, as a parent, can not not help crying?" (January 1942, The Monthly Newspaper of the High School) The man was arrested within days for sentencing the speech to anti-war content.
Throughout history, Japan is filled with an atmosphere that does not allow to be different from others, from before the war to after the war so many years have passed, although it has experienced the democratic movement and democratic reform, but "blindly" to comply with public opinion, so that this "supervision" of others atmosphere has not changed at all, and even many Chinese who work in Japan have complained that they have encountered Japanese colleagues to make small reports, it seems that this is also a historical inheritance.
However, the Chinese compatriots who live in Japan, we still try to follow the local social morality and etiquette, after all, when you enter the countryside, you must follow the customs, otherwise you will take our unique informality of the Heavenly Dynasty people, which will definitely make the Japanese neighbors who are secretly observing collapse...
Speaking of which, in the environment where you can't express your opinions for a long time, it is easy to cause Japanese people to be prone to depression, alcoholism, and even suicide, so think about it, or our domestic life is free and comfortable, haha, but don't do illegal things, such as PC:
I will secretly observe you...