He Qiuhua
Why did the Japanese choose a masterpiece of war at the University of Tokyo, Japan. The content was from the Meiji Restoration, the Sino -Japanese War, the Japanese and Russian War, and to the Pacific War.Political systems, groups, constitutionalism, etc. are increasingly successful, and have been written until how to invade North Korea and China.
At that time, Japan, like China, was linked by Western ships to open the country and set up many unequal treaties.Intellectuals feel shame and want to modify these unequal treaties.But their ideas and the way they take are different from Chinese intellectuals.
For example, the foreign minister Lu Aozongguang, who was eventually leading Japan to the war, gave a speech at the Empire Parliament in 1893.To achieve the purpose of amending the treaty, we must let foreign countries see actual evidence, that is, my country's progress, my country's opening up, so that my country can truly become a special civilization in Asia and a powerful country.
Lu Ao means that if you want to successfully modify the treaty with the powers, let Europe and the United States know the progress and opening up in Japan, and have the actual evidence of corresponding military power.In the same background, Fuzawa Yoshio wrote the famous Darvanism in 1885.
The important enlightenment thinker and educator of Japan said: Although Japan's land is located in the eastern part of Asia, the spirit of the people continues to break away from the old -fashionedness of Asia to Western culture.But unfortunately, there are two countries in the neighboring neighbor, one is China and the other is North Korea.In the trend of civilization, they have no way to maintain their independence.Their land will eventually be divided by world civilizations.my country should not hesitate to wait for the enlightened neighboring countries to revitalize Asia together. Instead, it should be separated from its ranks and advances with western civilization countries, and methods to treat China and North Korea. Western people can handle them.
In other words, at that time, the Japanese felt that their reforms had been effective, but when they saw neighboring countries, such as China, North Korea, the reform progress was slow and still lived in the medieval era. The Japanese began to regard these countries as brutal and backward countries.Asia theory is not that Japan is completely out of Asia, but that if Japan must realize its own interests in North Korea, it must first defeat China with force.
The logic of Fuze is that because the Qing Dynasty's food was not ancient and could not understand the principle of ordinary truths, Japan had to resort to force for the opening of civilization. The Japanese army was to let the Qing Dynasty understand the civilization of civilization.
Under the same thinking, the conflict between the China -Japan armies that occurred in the Lugou Bridge on July 7, 1937, expanded into a comprehensive war in an instant. Japanese Prime Minister Ki Wenwen issued a statement that he would not use the National Government as an opponent in the future.What is going on with the country that is fighting?However, the Japanese soldiers at the time, as well as the think tanks that assisted in the nearby Wei Wenyu, were not justified.They are confident that they can defeat Chiang Kai -shek for three months and occupy China.They still have even more incredible views on war.
For example, in 1939, the Command of the Sino -branch sent the Army Command made such a remark: the incident was not a war, but revenge.Being to the other country to beautify another country as revenge, even the Japanese themselves rarely heard.Moreover, China has never invaded Japan in the long history.Gegis Khan didn't count at that time, because the Mongolians were not Chinese at that time.
And in the historical materials written by Guardian Wenyu Thought tank, they position the Sino -Japanese War as a bandit war. Based on this psychology, they can understand why Japanese soldiers commit various crimes in China, such as the Nanjing Massacrewait.
In the book, Professor Kato asked three times and four times: Why did Japan be a war that lost 3.1 million Japanese people?Why can't I learn lessons from the tragedy of the First World War and start again?
At that time, the elite of Japan regarded the Qing Dynasty and was brutal and backward. It was necessary to use force to invade North Korea and the Qing Dynasty to modernize them.There are still many Japanese rights to hold this view today.
However, there are also many Japanese intellectuals, such as Geng Yoko, etc., constantly viewing and blaming themselves. Why did Japan allow those good warriors to start the war end again and again, and finally brought the entire country to the end of the country.
These problems have also troubled Chinese intellectuals in the past 100 years: Why can Japan be quickly modernized, and the Qing Dynasty cannot?Is the road that China has taken in the past 100 years, right or wrong?etc.
This reminds me of Huang Renyu's great historical theory.He said that history has its own long -term rationality.He compared Japan and China as a boat and a giant wheel.It is naturally easier to change the channel to change the channel; if China wants to change the channel, it will take a long time and huge energy.Huang Renyu encouraged the view of the great history to look at the past. Do not look at history with decades of short years. It takes one or two hundred years, or even hundreds of years to see the historical trend.
For example, in the late Qing Dynasty, the Westernization of the Republic of China, after the Republic of China, the Eight -year Anti -Japanese War, and Civil War, and the reform and opening up of Deng Xiaoping in modern times, inherited from each other, it has never been interrupted. After more than 100 years of sacrifice and efforts, it has only begun to see results in the last two or 30 years.
History is a mirror of us. When we see the path that the ancestors have gone, the mistakes they have made, hoping to make future generations more intelligent.But is it really like this?There are also Western philosophers that there are no new things under the sun, and humans can only repeat our mistakes.
This may be too pessimistic, but there are always too many foolish people in the world.Looking at Trump in the United States, the fried fried in Hong Kong, maybe my pessimism is quite reasonable.
The author is Hong Kong retirees
