Ishihara Guan'er, the vanguard of the "918" incident, was the most strategic figure in the Japanese Showa warlord clique, but in the fanatical militaristic wave dynasty, he only acted as a small boat drifting with the waves.
In 1931, because he could not directly annex China's three eastern provinces, Ishihara was in tears. In 1937, after the July 7 Incident, his attitude underwent a wonderful change: he did not approve of the expansion of the war of aggression against China.
Ishihara Guan'er
At that time, Ishihara Guan'er had been promoted from the operational staff of the Kwantung Army to the chief of operations of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters. Army Minister Sugiyama Moto boasted that Haikou "solved the incident in about a month", but Ishihara Guan'er did not see it that way. He felt that with Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army as the enemy and Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army as the enemy, the Japanese army was sure to win the battle, but it would be no small matter to take the entire Chinese nation as the enemy, and it would be very difficult for Japan to get out of it. He advocated putting the preparation of the war against the Soviet Union in the first place and not expanding the war of aggression against China.
Before the Japanese army invaded Nanjing, Ishihara Guan'er saw that the Chinese resistance was so strong and advocated early peace. It is believed that otherwise Japan will fall into the quagmire of China and cannot extricate itself. This will to resist Japan on the Chinese side will further strengthen the Chinese Communist Party (suspend the offensive and let them continue the civil war). Therefore, we should make peace with Chiang Kai-shek when he still holds the right to rule the whole country.
At that time, the Japanese government also considered German mediation and peace with China. However, after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, public opinion in Japan generally believed that total victory was just around the corner, and it was inappropriate to propose peace to China, which was about to be defeated in the war; even Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, who had always claimed to take civilian politics as his mission, also resolutely advocated fighting to the end.
Hirohito
In this controversy, the side in favor of expanding the war of aggression against China won because of the support of the emperor. Ishihara is a loser.
At this time, Emperor Hirohito discovered another problem.
In early September 1937, Hirohito proposed the establishment of an imperial base camp in Miyagi Castle, but the base camp was not formed until mid-November. Half of the reasons were the delay in the fighting in Shanghai, and the other half was that some of the instructions he gave to the General Staff Headquarters were shelved by the director of the War Department, Ishihara Guan'er.
Ishihara actually said that he had "forgotten."
The bold Ishihara was still so bold as the chief of operations, and even the emperor's instructions did not meet his own wishes. Hirohito expressed his anger quietly. Ishihara was relieved of his post as Chief of Operations and transferred to deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, where he served as an assistant to Chief of Staff Hideki Tojo. Shimomura, who supported the expansion of the war of aggression against China, was appointed minister of operations.
The defeated Ishihara was right: Japan was submerged in the vast ocean of the Chinese nation's all-people war of resistance, and the Chinese Communist Party achieved great development in this war.
After Ishihara fell out of favor, he was placed in the reserve in 1941 and later became a university professor, where he dominated the Japanese right-wing camp after World War II, organizing the East Asian Union Movement.
In 1949, when the Chinese revolution was decisively victorious, Ishihara Guan'er died quietly.
North Yihui
We can disagree with the theory of descent, but we have to face up to the continuation of bloodline.
Ishihara Guan'er, the soul of the 918 Incident, left a son of Shintaro Ishihara who advocated saying no to the United States in the 1980s and waging war with China in the 21st century. In May 2005, Taro Ishihara, in his capacity as governor of Tokyo, took a boat with government officials and reporters to Okinoshima Reef (Diaoyu Island) for an "inspection." On this reef where there was only a cone, Shintaro Ishihara knelt on his knees, then waved the sun flag and shouted loudly, "As if he had reached the battlefield." In an exclusive interview with the British newspaper The Times, Shintaro Ishihara said that if "China occupies the Diaoyu Islands," Japan should not hesitate to fight a "homeland defense war" with China.
Ishihara's portraits, books, and unfinished wild ideas must have been well preserved in the home of his son Shintaro Ishihara. And ishihara Guan'er, the initiator of the 918 Incident, was lucky enough to escape the trial of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East because he was not "favored" by the Emperor!
Here's a glimpse of the fate of the war mongers who waged war in those years.
Kita Ichiki, who brewed Japanese fascist theories from shimizu rice balls, was not as lucky as Ishihara. Kita was arrested in 1936 as the mastermind behind the 226 Incident and sentenced to death in August 1937.
Shumei Okawa
In comparison, Shumei Okawa, another japanese fascist originator, was luckier when he was arrested in 1932 for sponsoring naval officers to assassinate Prime Minister Inuyasha and sentenced to nine years in prison. He was pardoned and released from prison in 1937 and served as top adviser to the East Asian Economic Survey and minister of the mainland at Hosei University. After World War II, he was arrested as a Class A war criminal and later released in 1948 for insanity. He was treated as an abnormal person from then on, dying in 1957.
The founder of the "Imperial Army" of Japan, the leader of the Imperial Daoist Sect, Sadao Araki, lived for 90 years.
This Class A war criminal, who had read Capital in his early years, was not in any disaster after World War II. He has been recording archives since the 1920s, collecting secrets and materials. In 1925, when Hirohito purged the Choshu Domain, he served as the commander of the secret police, which greatly supplemented his secret information. In 1935, he revealed a little information that led the emperor to abandon Nagata Tetsuyama (who was assassinated), the number one of the "Three Feathers". Until his death in 1967, Araki kept these archives around him, and there were many things in them that were unfavorable to Emperor Hirohito. But Araki, an old fox, revealed that every page in the archives had been photocopied, sealed and kept by a reliable friend, and that the files would be made public if something went wrong.
Sadao Araki
There are so many connoisseurs around Hirohito who engage in conspiracy, but they can't help this old thing. Sadao Araki died peacefully. The safe that hid the emperor's countless secrets was still kept in his home. The most strategically minded Ishihara Guan'er was also swept away in the torrent of fanatical militarism, leaving a son, Shintaro Ishihara, who inherited the "bloodline", and could only relive their former "Great Japanese Empire" in his sleep...