Chapter 18 Chapter 5 Japan is a blunt knife in our hearts

Test A few days ago, I watched a German film "Hope and Struggle" downloaded from the Internet. The title of the film was too similar to the title of a political speech, and too similar to the title of a university thesis. It was a movie with a very solemn style and a very serious content-the time background was 1943, and the "World War II" had lasted for three years; the United States had entered the war, and the war situation had begun to change unfavorably for the German army.The Germans, who have independent thinking, love peace, and dislike aggressive wars, began to reflect on the criminality of the world war that their country launched.

There are some Germans who have begun to reflect—the three youths in the film, two men and one woman.The young women and one of the young men are college students. I have seen the suffering that Hitler caused to the people of other countries, and I have also seen how Hitler made the young Germans who became the invading army themselves fall into the suffering of the war. A young military officer returning from the front line to recuperate. Together with several young comrades, they secretly printed anti-war and anti-Hitler leaflets and distributed them everywhere—once when they were distributing leaflets in a university, they were arrested because they were seen and identified.

Then came a secret trial, a symbolic public trial - and a death sentence.Not by shooting or hanging, but by beheading. After World War II, Germany made several anti-war films, such as "Iron Cross" and "The Tin Drum", but they were all co-produced with other European countries. "Hope and Struggle" is a completely German film. Its ideology is obvious and clear - I hope that the war disaster like "World War II" will never happen again in the world; if it happens again, I hope more people will fight to prevent the war. This extremely solemn, serious, and complete German film proves that Germany is still repenting and reflecting on the crimes it committed during World War II.

Compared with Japan, it is a fact - Japan has never made a similar film. They only made films that showed Japan's war sufferings—in such films, Japan seemed to be more of a country suffering from World War II. They even made a series of films that evoked the soul of militarism - "Ah, Navy", "Pearl Harbor Attack" and "Yamamoto Fifty-Six". Reminiscent of some people and politicians in Japan who actually want to carry out the "applying" activities for their so-called "Kamikaze" in "World War II", so that we Chinese can't help but look at some Japanese and politicians again "with admiration" .What a crazy thought it is to protect the "crazy bravery" in the war of aggression as the heritage of human civilization!

This stubborn refusal to repent, refuse to reflect, persist in launching a war of aggression, and take the revival of militarism as its responsibility and mission makes Japan look like the zombie king in zombie movies!In that type of movie, the zombie king has only one purpose of behavior-to take revenge on human society by taking advantage of the resurrection. If Japan is driven by politicians like Abe, it will never be a wide ocean, but must be the "port of ghosts" presented in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean". If world peace is worthy of human concern, then Japan is one of the few countries that creates that concern.

After World War II, Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany by the United States and the Soviet Union.Regardless of East Germany or West Germany, their ideologies are under the watchful eye and monitoring of these two constraining countries, and fascism will be extinguished in time if there is a slight resurgence.On this point, the attitude of the United States and the Soviet Union towards West and East Germany was equally severe.The position of public opinion supervision throughout Europe has been unprecedentedly consistent for more than half a century.East Germany, West Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union and even the whole of Europe condemned German fascism in the cultural field extremely powerfully and never stopped.This makes it impossible for post-World War II Germany (despite being divided in two) not to engage in historical introspection.The public kneeling of Brandt, then Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, in front of the world media was a matter of course, and it marked that Germany's national consciousness had completely awakened from the nightmare of the fascist empire.

This was not the case in post-World War II Japan.It is only the United States that restricts it and monitors it.The United States is only highly vigilant about Japan's national psychology towards the United States.As for Japan's national psychology towards Asia, especially China, it is not at all considered by the United States. Especially during the "Cold War" period, if Japan is still grinding its teeth towards China, it will be in the hands of American politicians.As one of the three fascist axis countries during World War II, Japan has been indifferent to it for more than half a century because its crimes were mainly committed in China and other Asian countries.This is still the case today.In Asia, however, the cultural accusations and condemnations of various countries against the crimes of Japanese fascist aggression have never formed a joint force in any way or in any sense.This made Japan's life in Asia never as difficult as Germany's in Europe.This is the international premise that Japan has always refused to recognize the crime of war against humanity.

After World War I, Germany once considered itself a "heroic defeated country" in terms of national psychology.Because the enemy it faced in "World War I" was the army of more than a dozen countries.After the four-year war, although Germany declared defeat, in fact no foreign army invaded German territory.The German troops retreating from the front lines were greeted triumphantly everywhere.This made the German officers and soldiers feel honored to be defeated.A group of new-generation politicians headed by Hitler attributed Germany’s failure to two reasons: one was the interference of domestic revolutionary ideology;The subtext of this conclusion is that Germany was not defeated by an enemy country, but by its own situation.The deeper subtext is that as long as Germany solves its own problems, it will not only be able to declare war with many countries at the same time in the world, but also have the ability to be invincible and invincible.It was under such hints that German fascism formed its general climate.Their famous mental patient, the so-called raving philosopher Nietzsche, simply believed that there are only two kinds of people in the world who are worthy of living—the very few "tall people" headed by himself, and soldiers— Of course not from other countries, but from Germany.

After the "World War II", Japan, in terms of the entire national psychology, why didn't it think that it "failed extremely tragically"?What I said here is indeed impossible to find in the writings of the Japanese, but the sum of all their records about their country in "World War II" always reflects that meaning.Watch all the films made by the Japanese themselves with the background of "World War II", the "voiceover" is self-evident.Japan admits that it is a defeated country, but it absolutely does not admit that it was defeated by China.According to their thinking, the imperial army of the Great Japanese Empire can conquer the whole of Asia and conquer China several times.Nor did they take the Soviet Red Army that sent troops to Northeast China into consideration. After "World War II", Japan only admitted one thing - they were defeated by the two atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on their land.The United States avenged Pearl Harbor with two atomic bombs, and also made Japan kneel before the United States. After World War II, Japan actually only understood one truth—the world is composed of three forces: one is the United States, the only country that defeated it with two atomic bombs; the other is itself; the third is all other countries. s country.As long as Japan can make a comeback, other countries can still be looked down upon as they were more than half a century ago.The subtext of this Japanese "reason" is that Germany can no longer become the world's first empire.

The world's first empire was replaced by the United States, but the world's second and Asia's first empire should be Japan.It's just that patience is needed, it's just a matter of long-term consideration. Scholars at home and abroad who study the Japanese national character always beautify the Japanese national spirit wishful thinking.Japanese scholars especially enjoy it.It is said that the spiritual beliefs of the Japanese are composed of the three religions of God, Buddhism and Confucianism.And there are only more than 1 million Christians in Japan. In fact, the spirit of "Bushido" is the spirit generally advocated by Japanese men, at least before and after World War II.This is also a kind of "spirit" that has been glorified and deified. After the samurai became a social class in Japan more than 1,000 years ago, the vulgar side of the so-called "Bushido" spirit has expanded day by day, polluting the whole society by class.To put it bluntly, it is not a kind of spirit but a kind of evil logic, that is, if I kill you with violence, occupy your wife, enslave your father and brother, and buy and sell your sisters and children, it does not mean What kind of human nature problem is just a fact - I am strong and you are weak.The strong are kings, and the weak are insects, which are not worthy of pity at all.Only worthy of being killed.Killing is innocent.He deserved to be killed.

Weak people are insects - relying on this "reason" to explain, Japanese soldiers and their families before and after World War II believed that the crimes committed by the "imperial army" in China and Asia were neither crimes nor crimes. Not brutal.That is nothing more than the "royal army" "claiming" the "legitimate rights" of the strong. So far, Japan, where two writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature and many films have won prizes at international film festivals, has no cultural militaristic harm to Japan at all (whether it is for other countries or for its own country) ) have done any decent introspection.In Japan, almost every Japanese who tries to arouse that kind of introspection will instead be met with hostility from his compatriots, "a heroic defeated country", "a tragic page in Japan's modern history" - this is Japan The general historical impression instilled in generations of Japanese through its culture.Most Japanese politicians not only appreciate the above-mentioned Japanese cultural phenomenon, but also support it. After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1953, Japan once lived in peace with China.That's because the bravery and tenacity shown by the Chinese People's Volunteers on the Korean battlefield made the Japanese awe-inspiring.The United States, which made the Japanese kneel down, was defeated by the Chinese People's Volunteers on the Korean battlefield, which made Japan have to look at China again.After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, there has been little friction in the relationship between the two sides.On the diplomatic front, Japan has become particularly wary of China. After the Sino-Vietnamese border conflict, there was a long period of time when Japan looked at China differently.If it is a matter of Sino-Japanese relations, Japan does not dare to make trouble easily. In fact, since the 1990s, China has always been extremely restrained in its hostility to Japan, and it seems that the current retrogression should never occur.However, the fact is that it has gone backwards, and the responsibility lies entirely with Japan. Bullying the weak and fearing the strong, bullying the weak and fearing the strong - the bad roots of the Japanese nation have been reflected in generations of politicians in disguise.In contrast, Japanese youths have become much cuter.At least, they will never look at the world with the anti-human perspective of "the weak are insects" on the whole. For some Japanese politicians with dark political psychology, and Japanese anti-China right-wingers who regard China's restraint as China's cowardice, ordinary diplomatic art is not enough.They are almost on the same level as Chen Shui-bian in Taiwan—for quite a long time to come, Sino-Japanese relations will pose an extremely severe test to China's diplomatic style. I have neither sympathy nor trust in a country that actually refuses to reflect on its history.A country's sense of introspection is nothing more than reflected in two aspects - the introspection of domestic behavior and the introspection of international behavior.The presence, sooner or later, and authenticity of the former kind of introspection determine the pace of a country’s own civilization and progress; while the presence, sooner or later, and authenticity of the latter kind of introspection will bring security or uneasiness to neighboring countries. Furthermore, if Germany were an Asian country, no matter how strong its existence is, it would not disturb me, a Chinese. But Japan is in Asia.I think the future peace of Asia will almost certainly be cast in shadow again. What I am based on is such a law - it seems that for a country that is warlike to become a country that loves peace, it is not enough for it to experience the lessons of a defeated country.Of course, three times is too much.Perhaps, it is normal to experience twice, such as Germany. The failure of "World War I"-instead, it gave birth to fascism; the defeat of "World War II" made me deeply reflect on it, and then I was reborn. This is the German process. Japan is by no means a more reflective country than Germany. I think it is definitely not a peace-loving country now. Because the politicians who control its direction are basically a bunch of politicians who believe in winning and losing. When will it recharge its batteries and start a war again?What is the excuse to start the war?Against which other country did you start the war?How big a war? It is still too early to make a judgment.It is hard to predict which country will make it lose again.But it will never be a European country again, and it will never be the United States again. One thing is for sure—Japan, only when it becomes a defeated country again, will it truly reflect on itself.Only then will it be truly reborn, and Asia will be more permanently safe... It is thinking that Asia is worrying about China!