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At 7 a.m. local time on July 11, 2022, the results of the 26th Senate election of Japan’s parliament were announced. The results of the election are consistent with the previous expectations of public opinion, mainly in two aspects:
First, public opinion predicts that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will win more seats than before the election. Sure enough, before the election, the Liberal Democratic Party had 55 seats. After the election, the Liberal Democratic Party has 63 seats.
Second, public opinion predicts that after the election, the number of seats in the Japanese parliament proposing to amend the peace constitution will reach more than two-thirds of the legal requirements. Sure enough, the Liberal Democratic Party, which took a positive attitude towards the revision of Japan’s peace constitution, won 63 seats, the Komeito won 13 seats, the Japan Reform Association won 12 seats, and the National Democratic Party won 5 seats, a total of 93 seats. Other constitutional Democrats who are negative, or opposed to, or uncertain about the amendment of the peace constitution won 17 seats, the Communist Party of Japan won 4 seats, the riwa new election group won 3 seats, the Social Democratic Party won 1 seat, the NHK party won 1 seat, and non party or other parties won 6 seats, a total of 32 seats.
In short, the forces advocating the revision of Japan’s peace constitution have an overwhelming advantage over those not advocating the revision of Japan’s peace constitution, and have reached more than 2/3 of the legal provisions.
Previously, public opinion also generally believed that the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe three days ago had a further strengthening effect on the likely outcome of this election.
The second of these two results is particularly concerned by the world, especially by the Chinese people, that is, to amend Japan’s peace constitution.
Japan invaded others during World War II, causing great disasters and suffering to the people of many countries. After World War II, Japan established a peace constitution. The internal meaning of the peace constitution is simply that they do not take the initiative to fight others, so their army is called the self defense force.
However, some Japanese are angry about this, and their intention is also obvious. If they can’t beat others, they can’t bully others. At most, they can only resist when others bully him. This is incompatible with the temper of some aggressive Japanese, so they have always hoped to amend this peaceful constitution.
The law stipulates that the amendment of this peaceful constitution, just a proposal, requires a majority of more than 2/3 of the parliament. The result of this election made them “propose” to amend the peace constitution without legal obstacles.
If Japan amended the peace constitution and allowed itself to attack others on its own initiative, who would it attack on its own initiative? Take a look at the countries around him, especially the Chinese, and you will naturally know who this country will be.
This must be a bad thing for China.
What I want to discuss with my friends today is why the sudden assassination of Shinzo Abe three days ago on July 8 is a positive acceleration rather than a negative deceleration for Japan to amend the peace constitution. At the end of my last article, I hurriedly said a vague sentence that the assassination of Shinzo Abe was a bad thing for China, not a good thing. The meaning is here.
When I explained this sentence at the end of last article, I simply said that some people with ulterior motives may further accelerate the right deviation under the banner of “inheriting Abe’s will”.
What I said is only superficial. I want to say it in depth today.
Before we talk about it, let’s tangle up a group of corresponding expressions composed of two words: left leaning and right leaning. Or, left wing, right wing. In short, it has something to do with “left and right”.
So, what is left? What is right?
The most common explanation is that the right represents conservatism and the left represents progress. But this is still too abstract. Moreover, when we understand many things according to this explanation, we still face a difficult problem, what is progress? What is conservatism? For the same thing, some people think this is progress, while others think it is conservatism.
Therefore, I am still confused.
To tell the truth, I can’t tell it clearly. It’s too hard to tell. However, I can make it clear on one specific issue, that is, for Japanese politics, what do the right and left represent respectively in Sino Japanese relations? In short, the left represents friendship with China, and the right represents unfriendliness with China. In other words, the left represents pro China and the right represents Anti China. We can also be more colloquial. From our standpoint, for the Japanese political situation, the left represents good people and the right represents bad people.
This is a convenient expression for understanding and memory. Generally speaking, friends, don’t take it too seriously. I’m not lecturing in class. I’m just chatting with my friends. How convenient it is to understand how to come.
Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan who was assassinated on July 8, belongs to the Japanese right-wing forces, that is to say, in general, it belongs to the bad guys in the eyes of the Chinese people.
As I just said, more than two-thirds of the seats in the Japanese Senate election support the amendment of Japan’s peace constitution, and they are also right-wing forces.
So to sum up, according to previous public opinion analysis, Shinzo Abe’s sudden assassination will strengthen the power of Japan’s right-wing forces, so it is a bad thing for China.
Then why is public opinion so analytical? Moreover, this analysis of public opinion was confirmed by the results of the Japanese Senate election on July 11, three days later. What is the logic?
Naturally, this can be analyzed from many angles, and the angle I choose today is that since the establishment of the post of prime minister in Japan, a total of 10 prime ministers have enjoyed the treatment of being assassinated, including one assassinated by the North Koreans and the other nine assassinated by the Japanese themselves.
Judging from the development trend of the events after the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister by his own people, this judgment is confirmed, that is, after the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Japan’s right-wing forces have been growing.
Specifically, it can be divided into two sub arguments: first, the nine times that the prime minister was assassinated by his own people occurred in the context of the sharp expansion of Japan’s right-wing forces. Second, after the prime minister was assassinated by the Japanese themselves nine times, the Japanese right-wing forces took advantage of the situation and continued to grow.
Therefore, in the face of the assassination of Shinzo Abe, I have always been a pessimistic and nervous state of mind.
Let’s briefly review the general process of the assassination of 10 Japanese prime ministers in Japanese history.
For the first time, in 1909, Japanese Prime Minister ITO Bowen was assassinated by North Korean an chonggen in Harbin, China.
We Chinese are very familiar with ITO Bowen. The Sino Japanese War of 1894 took place when he was the Prime Minister of Japan. In 1895, due to the defeat of the Sino Japanese War of 1895, China was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan, which was also presided over by ITO Bowen.
In short, more than 100 years ago, when Japan invaded China, ITO Bowen was the main planner, promoter, commander and implementer. But I don’t want to talk about Japan’s invasion of China today, but I want to say that at the same time, Japan invaded North Korea first. So many North Koreans hate ITO Bowen, and many Chinese hate ITO Bowen.
Among the tens of thousands of people who hate ITO Bowen, there is a Korean named an chonggen. In 1909, he fired three shots at ITO Bowen in Harbin, China, all of them into the key parts of ITO Bowen’s internal organs, and then fired four shots to hurt ITO Bowen’s entourage. Ten minutes later, ITO Bowen died at the age of 68.
An chonggen was subsequently arrested, and after a symbolic trial, he was taken to the execution ground. An chonggen shouted slogans and died bravely. 104 years later, on June 29, 2013, the then president of South Korea Park Geun hye visited China, hoping that China would set up an chongen monument in Harbin. On January 19, 2014, the “anchonggen righteous Memorial” opened in Harbin, China.
Let’s analyze why Abe wants to assassinate ITO Bowen. The simplest logic is that Japan invaded Korea and invaded China, resulting in many Koreans and Chinese who hate ITO Bowen. Among these thousands of haters, there must be a few people, such as Abe.
Before the assassination of ITO Bowen, on March 2, 1909, an chonggen and a dozen other Korean patriots gathered in the Russian city of kraschino. An chonggen cut off a joint of his left ring finger, wrote four Chinese characters of “Korean independence” on the four trigrams of the Korean flag with the blood flowing from his fingers, and wrote his name. Then, others cut off their fingers in turn, wrote an oath with the flowing blood, and vowed in unison, “long live the independence of Korea”. This small organization to which an chonggen belongs is called the “broken finger alliance”.
However, I don’t want to focus on the general interests of the nation today, but to objectively and calmly analyze the laws of things. So why did an chonggen assassinate ITO Bowen?
My analysis is based on the discussion of necessity and contingency in the dialectical materialism principle of Marxist philosophy. The occurrence of any thing must be the combination of necessity and contingency. For Abe to assassinate ITO Bowen, the inevitability lies in ITO Bowen’s many evils in North Korea and China, and too many people want to kill him. Chance is that the specific person who killed him is called an chonggen, not someone else.
If you have to ask, which is more important, necessity or contingency? Marxist philosophy believes that necessity is more important. If there is necessity, there will be someone else to do it without a secure root.
My method of analyzing events is applicable to all things, whether it is analyzing good things or bad things, whether it is analyzing people in our camp or those in the enemy camp.
I even want to say that when analyzing the seemingly trivial things in our daily life, we should not only pay attention to the contingency, not only the specific person and the specific plot of the event, but also the inevitability behind it.
Naturally, when I say this, I will analyze the remaining nine assassinations of the Japanese Prime Minister by his own people, and I will also adhere to such an idea, that is, to pay attention to the inevitability behind the events.
Next, let’s say that the focus of our analysis today is that the Japanese Prime Minister was assassinated by his own people for the next nine times. Because the first assassination just mentioned was the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister by people outside Japan, which was different from the next nine times.
The Japanese Prime Minister was assassinated for the second time in 1921. The assassinated Japanese Prime Minister was called Hara Kei. The background of Hara Kyung’s assassination was that Hara Kyung, a civilian, had failed to meet the requirements of the military before and after becoming prime minister.
Before becoming prime minister, Hara Kei, as the leader of the opposition “political friends association” at the cabinet meeting on June 22, 1914, fiercely opposed the additional budget for the Navy.
After Hara Kei became prime minister, although the military budget under his cabinet also increased year by year, for example, the military budget in 1921 was twice that in 1917, but it still did not meet the military’s satisfaction.
At the same time, in the past, Japanese colonial officers have always been military officers. Hara Kazuki began to break this precedent. Colonial officers were both civilian and military officers. For example, in August, 1919, he appointed the governor of Taiwan and the governor of Kanto (this refers to China’s Dalian and Lushun areas), which were held by civil servants Tian jianzhilang and Lin Quanzhu respectively.
What made Japanese soldiers most dissatisfied with Prime Minister haraken was that in 1921, the president of the United States invited all countries to discuss the outstanding matters of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I. haraken sent the Prime Minister Kato yoshizaburo to attend the meeting. During the period when the prime minister participated in the meeting in the United States, who would take care of the domestic naval affairs? Prime Minister harajin decided to take care of it himself. Logically speaking, it’s really nothing, but in the hearts of Japanese militarists, such a military post should be performed by a literati like you. Scholars can bear it. Who can’t bear it? Against this background, on November 4, 1921, at the Tokyo railway station, he was assassinated by a 19-year-old boy named Gen Ichi Nakaoka with a short knife. The blade directly pierced his right lung and heart. Hara soon died at the age of 65.
In short, Hara Kei, the prime minister, did not meet the requirements of the rampant Japanese militarists, who are also representatives of Japan’s right-wing forces.
Harasei was the second prime minister to be assassinated in Japanese history, but it was the first prime minister to be assassinated by Japan’s own people. Against the background that harasei could not satisfy the appetite of Japan’s right-wing forces, it became the standard configuration for every assassinated Japanese prime minister later. This is what I especially want to share with my friends today. Once again, the nine prime ministers assassinated by their own people in Japanese history have a common feature, that is, they can’t satisfy the appetite of Japan’s right-wing forces.
For example, Nobuyuki Hamaguchi, the third and second prime minister assassinated by his own people in Japanese history, is a very famous financial expert in Japan. When he was Prime Minister, he advocated giving priority to national business.
The main things that he offended the soldiers were that in 1928, he participated in the naval disarmament conference held by Britain, Japan, the United States, France, Italy and other countries. The final result of the negotiation was that the proportion of Japanese naval battleships and the proportion of Britain and the United States were: the proportion of Britain and the United States was 5, and that of Japan was 3, which made the Japanese right-wing forces represented by Japanese militarists very dissatisfied. On April 22nd, 1930, the representatives of the five countries signed the London Naval Treaty. Although this treaty saved 820million yen of military expenditure for Japan in the next six years, it was simply a timely help to Japan in the midst of economic crisis, but the Japanese soldiers and those who enthusiastically supported Japanese militarism were extremely dissatisfied. On October 1, 1930, Japan ratified the treaty. More than a month later, on November 14, 1930, Takeshi Hamaguchi was shot with a pistol by a young man named Takeshi sasakami at the Tokyo railway station. Hamaguchi did not die on the spot. After being sent to the hospital for treatment, he was able to insist on giving instructions on the hospital bed for a time, but nine months later, on August 26, 1931, he finally died at the age of 61. The murderer who assassinated him was a member of Japan’s right-wing group “patriotic society”. After being arrested, he said bluntly: Prime Minister Nobuyuki concluded a humiliating London treaty and violated the command of the emperor. He took action out of righteous indignation.
Next, the assassinated Japanese Prime Minister, dog Yangyi, is a person who makes Japanese militarists, or Japanese right-wing political forces, very dissatisfied.
Let’s look at it a little bit. In 1921, Japanese Prime Minister Hara Kei, who was very dissatisfied with Japanese militarists, was assassinated. Then the Japanese militarist forces continued to develop. By November 1930, Japanese Prime Minister Takeshi Hamaguchi, who was also dissatisfied with Japanese militarists, was assassinated. Then what happened? One year later, on September 18th, 1931, the September 18th Incident of Japanese aggression against China occurred.
We can make such reasoning. If harasei, who dissatisfied the Japanese militarists, was not assassinated in 1921, and if Prime Minister Nobuyuki Hamaguchi was not assassinated in 1930, maybe the September 18th Incident in 1931 would not happen, and the modern history of China and Japan might be changed.
But the September 18th incident happened. How did the next story develop?
On December 13, 1931, three months after the September 18th Incident, the new prime minister, dog Yangyi, came to power. On the one hand, he publicly supported the Japanese Kanto army’s aggression against China. After all, he was the prime minister. After all, the incident had happened. However, in private, they communicated with the Chinese government in secret and advocated the recognition of China’s suzerainty over the three northeastern provinces. On the basis of the equal development of the three northeastern provinces, Japan and China jointly established a new regime. Finally, it talked about specific opinions, including: Japan withdrew its troops from Northeast China, China sent police to maintain order in Northeast China, designated Northeast China as a model area for the implementation of the three people’s principles, China sent senior officials to Northeast China, allowed Japan to immigrate to Northeast China, and the ambassadors of the two countries formally negotiated.
These conditions are still unacceptable to the Chinese, but compared with the appetite of the Japanese Kwantung Army, it is simply traitorous. Of course, they think it is a country that sells Japan. Obviously, it is China’s land. Japanese Prime Minister dog Yangyi is just preparing to get less benefits, and the Japanese right-wing forces are angry.
On February 15th, 1932, dog Yangyi wrote a letter to field marshal yoshizo Uehara, a veteran of the Japanese army, saying two core points:
First, if Manchukuo becomes independent, it will “cause a direct conflict with the nine Nation Convention” and isolate Japan in international diplomacy. Second, in order to prepare for the challenge to Japan after the completion of the Soviet Union’s “Five-Year Plan”, we must “improve relations with China as soon as possible”.
This is completely different from the path of Japanese militarism. Therefore, dog Yangyi, the prime minister, is called “non national” by some Japanese, which means “Japanese traitor”. China has traitors and Japan has traitors. At that time, the prime minister, dog Yangyi, was called “Japanese traitors” by some Japanese.
It can be seen how Japanese right-wing forces represented by militarism hate dog Yangyi. So eight months after the September 18th Incident, on May 15, 1932, 77 year old dog Yangyi was assassinated by a group of young people wearing Japanese Navy uniforms in his official residence.
This is another tragedy brought about by dissatisfaction with Japan’s right-wing forces.
After the assassination of dog Yangyi, the prime ministers of Japan in the next few years were Takahashi, Shigeru Saito and Keisuke Okada. Interestingly, during the four years from 1932 to 1936, three consecutive prime ministers of Japan were assassinated by Japanese military elements in their respective homes on the same day on February 26, 1936.
At the time of the assassination, Keisuke Okada was the prime minister, Takahashi was Qing and Saito was the outgoing prime minister. The specific order is: Saito was the predecessor of Keisuke Okada, and Takahashi was Qing was the predecessor of Saito.
On February 26th, 1936, three waves of Japanese militarists rushed into the home of then Prime Minister Keisuke Okada and the home of former prime ministers Saito and Takahashi, respectively.
When the murderer rushed in, the then Prime Minister katsuke Okada, who had previously heard of the rumors of the coup, immediately collapsed on the bed and said, “they are finally here.”. But prime minister Okada’s secretary and his brother-in-law, Matsuo Chuanzang, dragged it up and pushed it into the bathroom with a guard. Then the Secretary and brother-in-law ran to the yard and shouted “long live the emperor”. Because the Secretary and brother-in-law Matsuo Chuanzang looked like the prime minister, the soldiers who rushed in to assassinate mistook him for prime minister Okada kaisuke and shot him dead.
After being killed, the maid was found to identify, and the maid also identified that it was indeed Okada Keisuke. On the second day, it was believed that Prime Minister katsuke Okada was dead, so a memorial activity was held for katsuke Okada. The real prime minister himself, with the help of the Tokyo police department, put on a mask and sunglasses, disguised as a mourner for katsuke Okada, mixed in the funeral procession, and narrowly escaped.
This is the case of katsuke Okada. While assassinating kaisuke Okada, another group of people ran to the home of Saito Shi, the former Prime Minister and then a Navy General under kaisuke Okada, and shot directly. Saito Shi fell to the ground and died at the age of 78.
While assassinating kaisuke Okada and Saito, a group of people ran to the home of Takahashi Shiqing, the former Prime Minister and then finance minister under Prime Minister kaisuke Okada. They climbed over the wall and were hospitalized. They caught the housekeeper of the Takahashi family and forced him to lead the way to Takahashi’s bedroom. They fired several shots at Takahashi Shiqing, who was sleeping. Others also slashed and stabbed him with bayonets and sabres. Takahashi Shiqing died on the spot, aged 82.
This is the famous “February 26th mutiny” in Japanese history. A current prime minister and two former prime ministers were assassinated at the same time. The current Prime Minister katsuke Okada narrowly escaped, and two former prime ministers Saito and Takahashi were killed on the spot.
Let’s take a look at the political positions of the three prime ministers who were assassinated this time. Let’s talk first in the chronological order of becoming prime minister.
After the assassination of prime minister Quan Yangyi, who was called “Japanese traitor” by Japanese militarists, it was Takahashi and Qing who succeeded Prime Minister dog Yangyi. This man is also a financial expert. He became the Minister of Finance under dog Yangyi, that is, the Minister of finance. He also became the Minister of Finance under harajin, who was the first assassinated by the Japanese himself. After harajin was assassinated, he took over as the prime minister. Later, he became Minister of Tibet under Prime Minister Quan Yangyi. Later, dog Yangyi was assassinated, so he served as Prime Minister for 10 days. Then he became Minister of Tibet under katsuke Okada. Anyway, we have been focusing on the economy.
Many prime ministers let him be a minister of Tibet under their leadership, which also shows that he is indeed a financial expert from another perspective. Some historians call him the last brake of Japan’s war, because his political philosophy is based on the basic idea of a financial expert, that is, to reduce military spending, use money to develop the economy, and let the people live a good life.
But the key word here is “reduce military spending”. Isn’t that what killed the militarists? Naturally, he offended the right-wing forces represented by militarists in Japan, so he was assassinated.
Next, let’s talk about Saito. The core contradiction between him and Japanese militarists is similar to that between dog Yangyi. He advocates abiding by the Washington Naval Treaty and is called a conservative force by the right-wing forces represented by Japanese militarists. By 1934, he really couldn’t do it anymore, so he resigned, but the Japanese militarists still held a grudge. On February 26th, 1936, he was killed while assassinating the current Prime Minister Keisuke Okada and the former Prime Minister yoshiyoshiki Takahashi.
These three prime ministers were assassinated on the same day, one narrowly escaped, and two died on the spot. What impact has this had on Japan and the world political situation?
The answer is: one year and five months later, on July 7, 1937, the Lugouqiao Incident broke out, and Japan began an all-round war of aggression against China.
We can say that the “February 26th mutiny” occurred on February 26th, 1936. From 1932 to 1936, three consecutive Japanese prime ministers attacked the killers and completely wiped out the relatively peaceful political forces in Japan. Japanese militarists completely controlled the Japanese political situation, so the war of aggression against China broke out in an all-round way. “The Chinese nation is in the most dangerous time!”
This is the situation of the assassination of the Japanese prime minister before the end of World War II. Let’s talk about the situation after the end of World War II.
In 1960, Shinzo Abe’s paternal grandfather, Nobuyuki Kishi, was assassinated as prime minister.
Shinzo Abe’s paternal grandfather, Nobuyuki Kishi, was an out and out right winger during and after World War II.
During World War II, he served successively as director general of the general affairs department of the Ministry of industry, Vice Minister of the Ministry of industry and vice minister of the general affairs department of the “puppet Manchukuo”. At that time, he and Hideki Tojo, the chief of staff of the Kanto army, who later became the Prime Minister of Japan and later was listed as a class a war criminal, had the same stink and was known as the “demon of Manchuria”. After kishinae returned to Japan from Manchuria, he actively supported Hideki Tojo in launching the Pacific War. In 1943, he served as the Deputy Minister of Japan’s Quartermaster Province, fully responsible for the wartime economic operation, and became the “General Logistics minister” of the aggressive Japanese army. Because of his strange character and tricks, he was also known as the “demon of Showa”. On September 11, 1945, the United States occupying forces command announced the list of the first batch of class a war criminals arrested in Japan, including kishike.
But strangely, kishinsuke was later acquitted. The most fundamental reason is to make a deal with the United States, that is to let it fully expose the crimes of Hideki Tojo, because in the hearts of Americans, Hideki Tojo is the culprit in launching the Pacific War, and will want to kill and then quickly.
Because kishiyuki and Tojo Hideki are closely connected and close, he really made great contributions to the overthrow of Tojo Hideki by the Americans, and kishiyuki was finally acquitted. Kishisuke, who was acquitted, naturally had a special sense of closeness to the United States. He became Prime Minister of Japan in 1957. Naturally, there are many differences between Japan’s previous prime ministers after World War II and the United States.
On January 19, 1960, Japan and the United States signed the “Japan US joint cooperation and security treaty”, which led to the outbreak of large-scale protests and demonstrations in Japan. Kishisuke was unrelenting in this regard, implemented violent suppression, and killed the leader of the Japanese student movement, Michiko Hua. He also visited Taiwan and jointly established a Japan China cooperation committee with Chiang Kai Shek to support Chiang Kai Shek in his counter offensive against the mainland and allow Kuomintang agents to engage in espionage activities in Japan.
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Wait, oh, there are too many facts about him. This is not the point I want to talk about today. Skip it. In short, he is an extreme right winger and a representative of the right wingers in Japan after the war.
However, a man like him was also assassinated by a 65 year old man named Huang mu tuizu at a reception on July 14th, 1960. However, the man cut with a knife, not a spear, and only cut on his leg, so kishike didn’t die.
Kishiuke was assassinated, which is apparently very different from the assassination of several prime ministers before World War II, because several Japanese prime ministers assassinated by the Japanese themselves before World War II were assassinated because they did not meet the appetite of Japan’s right-wing forces represented by militarists, and kishiuke himself was a representative of Japan’s right-wing forces at that time.
This problem seems hard to understand. In fact, it is essentially the same in detail. We will talk about this problem later.
No matter whether the reason for kishiyuki’s assassination was the same as those of the prime ministers before World War II, the result was the same, that is, to further increase Japan’s right-wing forces, because from kishiyuki, Japan ended the general background of understanding the war of aggression against China after World War II. Kishidae was assassinated and didn’t die. His successor after resignation was Yoshito Ikeda, who was carefully selected as kishidae’s successor and fully implemented kishidae’s line. After Yoshito Ikeda left office in 1964, kishidae’s brother Sato Rongzuo, also known as Shinzo Abe’s Pro foreign uncle, became Japanese prime minister until 1972.
At the end of World War II, Japan was still introspective about the war of aggression against China. After all, the war had just ended. Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, from 1948 to 1952, did not visit the Yasukuni shrine for three consecutive years to show his suppression of Japan’s right-wing forces. However, from 1957 when kishiuke became prime minister to 1972 when kishiuke’s brother Sato stepped down, in these ten years, Japan completely followed the United States, and its reflection on the war became worse and worse. On the contrary, this period was the first highlight of the Japanese right-wing forces after the war.
Kishisuke was the first Japanese Prime Minister to enjoy the treatment of assassination after the war, the eighth Japanese Prime Minister to enjoy the treatment of assassination in Japanese history, and the seventh prime minister to enjoy the treatment of being assassinated by the Japanese themselves in Japanese history.
The second Japanese prime minister who enjoyed assassination treatment after the war was former Japanese Prime Minister Hosokawa, who was shot in 1994. At about 7 p.m. on May 30, 1994, former Prime Minister Hosokawa was suddenly shot while attending a press conference, but Hosokawa was unharmed. So now we see many articles that often miss this person when talking about the assassinated Japanese Prime Minister. I’ll mend it today.
Why was Hosokawa Huxi assassinated? Looking at his political position, he is the first non Liberal Democratic Party prime minister in Japan since 1955. After taking office, he admitted the war crimes committed during the Japanese Empire in unambiguous language.
In yesterday’s article, I said that the Japanese Prime Minister’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine reached a peak in 1985 and was later curbed. In the 11 years from 1985 to 1996, the Japanese Prime Minister did not publicly visit the Yasukuni Shrine, and Hosokawa was Prime Minister during this period, from August 9, 1993 to April 28, 1994.
Against this backdrop, it should be a good thing for Hosokawa to admit in unambiguous language the crime of aggression committed by Japan. If this trend continues to develop, China Japan relations will have been completely improved by today. In short, Hosokawa Huxi can be said to be the representative of Japan’s left-wing forces.
However, Hosokawa was assassinated. Although he was unharmed, since then, Japan’s left-wing forces have never recovered, until today.
Hosokawa is the ninth Japanese Prime Minister to enjoy the treatment of assassination in Japanese history, and also the eighth Japanese Prime Minister to enjoy the treatment of being assassinated by the Japanese themselves.
Further, on July 8, three days ago, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated. So Shinzo Abe is the 10th Japanese Prime Minister to enjoy the treatment of being assassinated in Japanese history, the 9th Japanese Prime Minister to enjoy the treatment of being assassinated by the Japanese themselves, and the third Japanese Prime Minister to enjoy the treatment of being assassinated after the war.
The foothold of my article today is to analyze the impact of Shinzo Abe’s assassination on Japan’s political situation and China. The answer can be found in the previous eight Japanese assassinations of their own prime minister.
Among the previous eight incidents in which the Japanese themselves assassinated their own prime ministers, there were six before the end of World War II. The common point of the six incidents was that those prime ministers did not meet the appetite of the right leaning forces represented by Japanese militarists.
After World War II, the most recent one happened to us in 1994. The prime minister Hosokawa, who was also assassinated, unequivocally admitted the crime of Japanese aggression against China.
The only thing that makes me feel a little different is that Shinzo Abe’s grandfather Kishi was assassinated in 1960. He himself was the representative of Japan’s right-wing forces after the war, but he was assassinated, but in essence, it was the same.
We only need to look at the person who assassinated kishiyuki. The person who assassinated kishiyuki belongs to an extreme right-wing group called “xuanyang society”, which was the most powerful fascist team in Japan before World War II. The murderer of kishiyuki was a 65 year old old right-wing element. In other words, he is an extreme right winger for many years.
He is very dissatisfied with the cross-strait information agency. What does it mean?
At the beginning of today’s article, I introduced that we can simply understand Japan’s right-wing elements as bad people from the Chinese perspective, so kishiuke is a bad person, and kishiuke’s assassin believes that kishiuke is not bad enough.
In fact, my reasoning also applies to the six Japanese Prime Ministers who were assassinated by their own people before World War II. As I mentioned in the previous explanation, those assassinated prime ministers have prevented Japanese militarists and their far-reaching right-wing forces from launching aggressive wars to a certain extent.
But in fact, from the perspective of China, they are also bad people.
For example, the first Japanese Prime Minister to be assassinated by the Japanese himself, Hara Kei, during his term of office, the military expenditure in 1921 reached 1.58 billion yen, double that in 1917.
We all know that the fuse that led to the outbreak of the May 4th Movement in China was the transfer of the privileges originally belonging to Germany in Qingdao, China, to Japan at the Paris Peace Conference. At this time, it was the assassinated Hara Kei who became the Prime Minister of Japan. From the perspective of Japan, it has also won great interests for Japan. Unfortunately, this still cannot satisfy the appetite of Japan’s right-wing forces.
As I mentioned in the previous article today, the Japanese Prime Minister, dog Yangyi, who was assassinated in 1932, offended Japan’s right leaning forces represented by militarists because of some opinions he put forward in private communication with the Chinese government, including the joint establishment of a new regime between China and Japan in Northeast China.
Just ask: This is the northeast of China. Why should China jointly establish a new regime with Japan? Such a condition is definitely unacceptable to us Chinese, so he is far from being a good person in the Chinese standard. However, such people have become “Japanese traitors” in the eyes of Japanese right-wing forces.
In the final analysis, it can be summarized as follows: he is a bad man, but the Japanese right-wing forces think he is not bad enough, so they want to attack him.
And what else did Japanese Prime Minister Saito, who was assassinated in the “February 26 incident” in 1936, do during his term of office? In September 1932, Japan officially recognized the “Manchukuo” and signed the “Japan Manchukuo Protocol”. Around this time, the Kwantung Army further attacked Rehe province of China. This series of actions led to the further deterioration of the view of the League of nations on Japan. In February 1933, Japan announced its withdrawal from the League of nations and completely embarked on the road of isolation.
It is such a prime minister. The Japanese right-wing forces represented by Japanese militarists are still very dissatisfied and want to kill him. In the final analysis, people who are bad enough to speak from the standpoint of China are not bad enough in the eyes of bad people, so we should get rid of them and then speed up.
This is exactly the same logic as that of Shinzo Abe’s grandfather kishiyuki, who was assassinated in 1960. Kishiyuki is bad enough, but some Japanese think he is not bad enough, so they want to kill him.
Then we think of Shinzo Abe’s assassination. After the assassination of Shinzo Abe, many Chinese people can’t wait to applaud. Why? Because he is a bad man in the hearts of Chinese people, is it possible that some Japanese still think he is not bad enough and kill him?
This is a guess from the cause, and we will analyze it from the perspective of consequences, which is also the most important.
Before World War II, from Hara Kei’s assassination, to Hamaguchi’s assassination, to dog Yangyi’s assassination, to February 26th, 1936, three prime ministers were assassinated at the same time. Japan’s right-wing forces became more and more rampant, eventually leading to a comprehensive war of aggression against China.
The two most critical points are that after Nobuyuki Hamaguchi was assassinated in 1930, the September 18th Incident broke out in 1931. After the assassination of three prime ministers in 1936, the Lugouqiao incident occurred on July 7, 1937, and Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China (the key word was “comprehensive”, before that it was “local”, such as in the northeast).
After World War II, after kishiuke was assassinated, his personally selected successor Yoshito Ikeda, and after Yoshito Ikeda, kishiuke’s brother Rongzuo Sato, led Japan, entered a phased highlight of the right-wing forces after World War II. This situation was not reversed until US President Nixon visited China in 1972.
After the assassination of Hosokawa Huxi, the representative of Japan’s left-wing forces, in 1994, Japan’s left-wing forces have not recovered, and there is no way to compete with Japan’s right-wing forces.
Therefore, I draw a great concern from the experience of the assassination of eight prime ministers who were assassinated by the Japanese themselves before Shinzo Abe. In Japan, after the assassination of the prime minister, the bad guys in Japan tend to become more and more rampant.
This worry is consistent with the views of many public opinions after the assassination of Shinzo Abe three days ago. Today, the election results of the Japanese Senate show that the rigid standard of more than two-thirds of the seats required for Japan’s proposal to amend the peace constitution has been met, which has exacerbated the concerns of people like me.
So where is the key to solving the problem? We still look for the answer from the assassination of many Japanese prime ministers in the past 100 years.
Before World War II, six Japanese prime ministers were assassinated by their own people, which eventually led to the war of resistance against Japan. Finally, we beat Japan to the ground. Japan is still not a normal country, firmly controlled by the United States, and the peace constitution stipulates that he has no right to foreign aggression. In short, Japan is still a castrated country, which is what they deserve.
This is a way to solve the problem. I summarize it as “fighting Japan”, which is a law summed up from the facts before World War II.
What about after World War II?
As I said before, the first highlight moment of Japan’s right-wing forces after World War II began with Shinzo Abe’s grandfather kishike, who became prime minister in 1957, and ended in 1972 with Shinzo Abe’s grandfather’s brother Sato Rongzuo stepping down as prime minister.
Because in 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka visited China and normalized Sino Japanese relations. There is a very important external factor behind this, that is, Kissinger, the assistant to the president for national security affairs of the United States, visited China in 1971, and Nixon, the president of the United States, visited China in 1972.
Japan, knowing that China has taken over the United States, Japan immediately made a 180 degree turn. US President Nixon visited China on February 21, 1972. On February 28, China and the United States issued a Shanghai joint communique announcing the normalization of Sino US relations. Seven months later, on September 25, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka visited China. On September 30, he issued a joint statement between China and Japan to normalize bilateral relations and establish diplomatic relations.
I remind my friends to pay attention to one detail. China and Japan established diplomatic relations in 1972, while China and the United States established diplomatic relations only in 1979. What does this mean? I think, in fact, we don’t have to wait for China to take over the United States, just let Japan “feel” that China can take over the United States. When it doesn’t really take over, Japan has been automatically taken over by China.
So I said at the end of the last article: to fix Japan, we must first fix the United States.
Conversely, in the current situation, it is difficult to completely deal with Japan without completely dealing with the United States.
Therefore, the United States is the culprit and the source of chaos.
What is Japan? Japan is nothing! Anyway, I don’t know what it is. It’s not a thing at all!