In the northern part of Miyazaki City, Japan, stands a special town soul pagoda, "Hachiren (hóng) Ichiyu Pagoda". What makes this tower special is its unusual construction materials.
There are 370 stones in the tower, which were stolen by the Japanese from famous buildings around the world, including 238 from China. So, how did these stones get to the Japanese army, and why did they build such a tower in such a strange way?
Eight-fold one-yu pagoda
The Hachiren Ichiyu Pagoda was built in 1938 and inaugurated in 1940. The tower is 36.4 meters high, made of 1789 stones, located on a 60-meter-high hill in the northwest of Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, and is known as "Japan's tallest tower".
In 1938, it was really an unforgettable and difficult period for Chinese, and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was carried out to an extremely tragic stage, and China finally forged an impenetrable defensive line with the blood of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians, and it was difficult to block the invasion of the Japanese army to the west.
However, the Japanese army was also seriously injured internally, not only the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but also the arrogant invasion plan of "destroying China in three months" was completely shattered, and the morale of the army fell into an unprecedented low.
Seeing this, the japanese government decided to build a town soul pagoda in Miyazaki Prefecture in Miyazaki Prefecture on the occasion of the 2600 birth of Emperor Shinmu of Japan, hoping to take this opportunity to boost morale.
How can a tower boost morale? This tower is not an ordinary tower, the Japanese have worked hard to build it, whether it is from the location, the appearance of the materials, and even the name, there are many disgusting mysteries.
The first is the location, above we talked about Emperor Shenmu, legend has it that he and a sacred bird descended from the sky in Miyazaki Prefecture, and used this place as a starting point to launch the Eastern Expedition, and finally unified Japan and became the first emperor of Japan.
Therefore, Miyazaki Prefecture can be regarded as the birthplace of traditional Japanese culture and the origin of Japan's "Ten Thousand Generations" imperial family. The construction of the Zhen Soul Pagoda in what the Japanese call "the starting point of the Great Japanese Imperial Kingdom", what kind of ulterior motives are hidden in this, presumably has been revealed.
Miyazaki Prefecture with a rich history
The second is the material used in the tower, in which the Japanese government fully demonstrates its banditry face. In response to the government's call to build a tower, the Japanese military top brass issued an order to the troops: "Each army or division should provide two stones, one near the limit of the first line to show the imperial might." ”
The limit of imperial power refers to the farthest distance reached by the Japanese invading army. The purpose of the Japanese army in issuing this order was to seize the most representative stone materials in the invaded land and use it to build the foundation of the Miyazaki Prefectural Town Soul Tower, take the opportunity to send an insult to the invaded country, dampen the fighting enthusiasm of other countries, and boost the morale of its own troops.
The Japanese want to build towers, do not use their own stone, but to smash other people's houses, rob other people's materials, more lack of morality to do this.
As soon as this order was issued, the enthusiasm of the Japanese soldiers was all ignited, and the flames of burning and looting became more and more vigorous. They used all means to snatch 370 stones from China, North Korea, the United States and other places, and then carved the stones with information on the source and transported them back to Japan.
The tower is made of stones from China
Indignantly, 238 of these stones from China were collected in well-known chinese resorts, which have a very special meaning. For example, the brick wall of the Great Wall, the stone on the top of Mount Taishan, the granite relief on the Shanghai City Hall, the white jade qilin relief in the Ming Palace in Nanjing, and so on.
Most of these stones came from a large and intact whole, which originally had high artistic value, but the Japanese army usually destroyed it completely in order to choose one, and then randomly selected a piece to hand over. Such a waste of art is really heinous.
In addition, among these very meaningful stones, a total of 182 pieces were used as foundations and pressed under the tower. There is an old Chinese saying that "Mount Tai presses the top", which describes people who suffer from great pressure and will not bend their backs for this. At this time, the Japanese actually used the stone at the top of Mount Tarzan as the foundation, and then pressed the stone of their own country on it, which was really infuriating and funny.
The invading forces around the world overstepped their tasks in a very short period of time, and by virtue of this clumsy means of self-deception, the morale of the Japanese army was suddenly much higher. On the other side of Japan, the Japanese people have donated nearly 5 million yen generously to help the government build this soul tower well and quickly.
Chinese folks caress the Chinese stone on the foundation
Looking at the completed Hachiren Ichiyu Pagoda, its appearance and inner meaning really show Japan's wolf ambitions. The front of the tower is engraved with the four characters "Hachihiro Ichiyu" written by The Brother of Emperor Hirohito, Prince Chichibumiya. The relief patterns around the body also have a very auspicious meaning: "The Arrival of the Heavenly Sun", "Shenwu Eastern Crusade", "National Harmony", "Ten Thousand Generations" and so on.
The back of the Zhen Soul Pagoda is also engraved with all the "glorious achievements" such as the names of countries and places that have been invaded by Japanese troops since the 2600 years of the Imperial Dynasty of Japan. At the four corners of the tower, there is also a ceramic martial god statue, known as the Desolate Soul, the Strange Soul, the Lucky Soul and the Harmony Soul, representing the four identities of the samurai, fishermen, farmers and workers, whose task is to guard the heroic souls of their ancestors day and night.
At the same time, the meaning of "Hachiren Yiyu" has once again expanded to "conquer all directions of the world, placed under a roof, so that all land, sea, and sky will become the territory of Japan!" ”
The word "Eight Hong" originally came from the ancient Chinese book "Liezi TangWen", which means "the land of the eight directions far away". In modern times, Japan borrowed it to derive a new word, "Hachihiro Ichiyu", and gave it the meaning of "moral world unity".
Sources of Eight Hong Yi Yu
Japan's continuous improvement in the creative motive is not simple, this is just a "legitimate slogan" deliberately found by the Japanese militarists to help themselves launch the "Great East Asia War". By this time, "Hachiren Ichiyu" had been enshrined as the national motto of the Empire of Japan and written into the basic outline of national policy. Throughout World War II, it was widely spread by the Japanese army throughout the world.
Ironically, just five years later, Japan suffered a "total defeat" in World War II. Japan, the defeated country, was severely tried in an international court for its heinous crimes, and for a time became a street rat that everyone shouted and beat.
The term "Hachiren Yiyu" was also carried out as a sensitive forbidden area, and the relevant countries that had been invaded by Japan united to denounce the remnants of imperialism, erase all these words, and return the stolen stones and former booty.
However, at that time, Japan had already been stationed by the United States, and American officials had become the main speakers in Japan, and a large part of the power of the local government had long been lost. From the perspective of the United States, the existence or non-existence of these stones is not a matter at all, so there is no mandatory demand on the Japanese side to deal with this matter.
With the acquiescence of the United States, the thick-skinned Japanese government eventually retained the tower, but in order to block the mouth of the people, they still carried out some modifications to it. The words "Hachiren Ichiyu" on the tower were erased, the original four statues of the martial gods were removed, and the tower and the surrounding area were planned as "Peace Park".
Remodeled Peace Park
How ironic it is that the ironclad evidence of the act of aggression has become a park in the name of "peace", and such an act of concealing one's ears and stealing bells naturally cannot convince the other countries.
The continuation of this tower for one day means that Japanese militarism has not been eliminated, and to keep it is to allow Japanese militarism to continue to spread the virus. The Chinese government has persistently raised objections in the international community, demanding that Japan completely destroy such items and return the spoils of war looted from China during the war of aggression against China.
However, the Japanese side did not take the protests and warnings of other countries seriously at all, and never responded positively to such demands to the outside world. Blindly hiding under the protection of the US military and relying on the support of the United States, they quietly carried out post-war reconstruction work.
With the passage of time, the smoke of war gradually faded, the Japanese economy slowly recovered, and the Japanese government, which did not remember the fight, once again began a clown-like performance, tentatively provoking other countries.
Especially after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese right-wing forces could no longer hold back their careful thoughts and began to "summon the soul" of militarism.
1964 Japan Olympic Games
At the end of the same year, the Miyazaki Prefectural Tourism Association found the right moment to submit an application to the local government, hoping to restore the words "Hachihiro Ichiyu" on the tower. The move was in the hands of the Japanese government, which not only immediately agreed to the application, but also in January 1965, returned the four statues of the martial gods that had been removed to their original positions.
Knowing that such an act is dancing in the minefields of China, North Korea and other countries, the Japanese government is not afraid at all, because they have made all the preparations in advance.
In 1971, Miyazaki Prefecture Governor Hiroshi Kuroki wrote in the "Prefectural Peace Park" inscription that the cornerstone of the Hachiho-Ichiyu Pagoda was "sent by friendly nations" rather than plundered by war.
It beautifies Japan's former crime of plundering into a friendly gift, and distorts Japan's "eight-fold and one-yu" attempt to dominate China and conquer the world into a desire for peace. This article thoroughly covered up and distorted the historical truth of the Japanese army's aggression everywhere, and once it was published, it was strongly opposed by people of insight from all over the world.
Even so, the Japanese right-wingers are unrepentant and insist on going black on this mad road. In 1975, Takeo Miki, a high-ranking Japanese official, openly went to the Yasukuni Shrine on August 15. This behavior has seriously broken through the bottom line.
Yasukuni Shrine
The predecessor of yasukuni Shrine was the Tokyo Soul-Summoning Society, which was created by order of Emperor Meiji in 1869 to commemorate the soldiers who died in the Botatsu War to restore the emperor's power.
Later, the Japanese military officially took over the area in 1879, renaming it Yasukuni Shrine, and enshrined nearly 2.5 million Japanese officers and soldiers killed in the Japanese invasion of China and the Second World Station.
Hideki Tojo and 14 other Class-A war criminals who committed heinous crimes in the war of aggression against China, and about 2,000 Class B and C war criminals were enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine and sincerely visited by many Japanese officials and ordinary people.
This extremely despicable and provocative behavior soon aroused strong resentment among countless Chinese people, but no matter how angry the outside world was, the Japanese right-wingers still went their own way.
Since then, the Japanese government has become increasingly arrogant. Every once in a while, high-ranking politicians lead a large group of people to visit the Yasukuni Shrine and make a big report in the news media. On the surface, this kind of behavior by the Japanese government seems to be a morally corrupt and deliberately disgusting behavior.
But in fact, they are using this to spread distorted ideas about war. The Japanese government attempts to portray the war criminals enshrined in it as combat heroes through regular worship activities, and then instills the idea of learning from the example of militarism to a new generation of young people.
Japan's High Official's Visit Yasukuni Shrine
Under such constant brainwashing, what was once sin can be transformed into something worthy of recognition. If it continues to develop, the whole of Japan will once again be under the control of militarist careerists, and if the right-wing forces are once again at their peak, it is likely to trigger war again.
Therefore, the rest of the world must take japan's mistakes seriously and strongly oppose all visits to the Yasukuni Shrine. As the Soul Tower, the Hachiren-Ichiyu Pagoda, flowing with the same blood spirit as the Yasukuni Shrine, is a symbol of Japanese militarism and cannot be easily ignored.
In order to provide theoretical support for these dirty deeds, Japan's careerists not only promote such behavior at home, but also spend a lot of money to bribe the Western media. Taking people's money means doing things for others, and the Western media have repeatedly whitewashed the crimes of the Japanese army, and even described the "Lushun Massacre" as an act of excessive retaliation by the Japanese army.
However, before that, the British journalist Allen had recorded the Lushun massacre in his own observational record "Under the Dragon Flag": "It is dark, and the massacre is still continuing." Gunshots, shouts, screams and groans echoed everywhere. The streets were a terrible sight: the ground was soaked with blood, and mutilated bodies lay everywhere; some small alleys were almost blocked by dead bodies. Most of the dead were city dwellers. ”
Lushun massacre
Such a simple description of the cross seems to bring people back to that day at once, witnessing a very shocking killing scene. With such irrefutable ironclad evidence in front of it, the Japanese government was forced to give up covering up the "burning, looting, and fornication" of the past, and made some painless responses.
However, no matter how Much Japan whitewashes the Taiping, the harm caused to the Chinese people can never be erased, and we still have countless witnesses and physical evidence. For example, in the 1990s, there was a dispute in which Chinese workers claimed compensation to the Japanese government, which caused a storm of public opinion in the international community.
The laborer's name was Liu Lianren, and he was born in Caobo Village, Gaomi Jinggou Township, Shandong Province. On the 28th day of the eighth lunar month in 1944, the Japanese army captured the unfortunate Liu Lianren, gave him the false identity of a captive soldier, and then forcibly boarded a train bound for Japan as a laborer.
Knowing that he would be more fierce and less fortunate, Liu Lianren was ready to escape at the train station to take advantage of the flow of people, but he did not expect that the Japanese army would ignore him and shoot him in the crowd. Fortunately, the bullet only passed through his hair, and he barely managed to save his life at the cost of being beaten.
Liu Lianren
After arriving in Japan, his job was to dig coal at the Showa Coal Mine. At that time, the mine implemented the policy of "asking for coal and not people", all laborers had to work more than 10 hours a day to complete the workload of 40 baskets of coal, and who dared to stop for a second, the sticks and pickaxes in the hands of the overseers would be smashed down.
Liu Lianren and the four co-workers were not willing to let their lives be treated as grass, decided to fight to the death, and finally successfully escaped from this hell on earth one night in July 1945. But after escaping, they were lost in the mountains and forests of Hokkaido, and 5 people died and scattered, leaving Liu Lianren alone.
He hid in a cave and lived the life of a cave dweller. It was not until January 1958 that Liu Lianren was discovered by two local hunters and saw the light again. This human tragedy of being humiliated and secretly born for 13 years, just to avoid the murder of the Japanese, immediately shocked the Chinese and Japanese governments.
After Liu Lianren returned to his homeland to recuperate for a period of time, he filed a claim against the Japanese government with the help of all parties. However, then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi said that Liu Lianren's plight was responsible for the coal company and that the Japanese government was not obliged to compensate him for the misconduct of individual commercial companies.
Because the Japanese side repeatedly evaded, refusing to apologize and compensate, until Liu Lianren's death in 2000, the compensation case finally became an unsolved case.
Commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Liu Lianren's birth
In the final analysis, this irresponsible approach is simply not acknowledging responsibility for war crimes. Therefore, some international observers believe that the Japanese government has basically no possibility of self-correction, and right-wing elements are like malignant tumors, taking root within the Japanese government and spreading vicious ideas everywhere.
Even people with good intentions will be infected by vicious thoughts in this environment and become an evil careerist. If we want them to change from evil to righteousness, the first thing to do is to completely dismantle all kinds of soul-suppressing societies in the outside world and break the illusion of self-deception in their hearts.
Whether acknowledged or not, facts are facts. Japan's war crimes can never be erased. The heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army against China must not be arbitrarily tortuous by right-wingers.
Chinese will always remember the history of these sins, and one day they will repent for the sins they have committed. The new generation of Chinese have been self-improvement and hard work, just for that moment!