On July 19, 2014, more than a year following Shinzo Abe took office as the Prime Minister of Japan, he went to Togyo-an, Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to lay flowers in front of the tomb of Takasugi Shinsaku, a “respected king who fought once morest foreigners” at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. Abe said following visiting the tomb of Takasugi Shinsaku that he did have a sense of determination to express his determination to run the regime.
The “Jin” in Abe’s name came to commemorate Takasugi Shinsaku.
Shinzo Abe came from a famous Japanese political family. On September 21, 1954, Shinzo Abe landed in Tokyo. Although he ranked second, he was named “Jin San”, which is actually the meaning of repeated inheritance. The word “Jin” originated from Takasugi’s work. When Shinzo Abe was a child, his grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, who was already the prime minister of Japan at the time, often told him the story of Shinsaku Takasugi. Abe’s great-uncle, Eisaku Sato (the younger brother of Shinsuke Kishi), later became prime minister. Shinzo Abe was born in a golden family of Japanese politics and enjoys a three-dimensional honor.
The modern history of Japan is a history from a rich country and a strong army to militarism. The Shinzo Abe family is also a microcosm of this history.
1. Takasugi Jinzuo. Takasugi Shinsaku was a famous politician and military strategist during the Japanese Restoration period. In the middle of the nineteenth century, Japan was still relatively backward in the feudal shogunate era, which was the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. The influx of foreign forces forced the shogunate to sign a treaty to open the port to trade. At that time, samurai from different regions scattered and became an armed force to overthrow the shogunate. Takasugi Shinsaku was a vassal of Changzhou, and he formed a troop of surprise soldiers to join the war of falling curtains. Later, the shogunate was defeated, but Jinsaku himself contracted tuberculosis and died in 1867 at the age of 27. He was unable to see the “return of the great government” following the shogunate surrendered. Later, Takasugi Shinsaku, Sakamoto Ryoma and others were welcomed into the Yasukuni Shrine together and were commended and worshipped. Shinsaku Takasugi represents Japan’s spirit of great power.
2. Nobuyuki Kishi. In the nineteenth century, China and Japan both embarked on the road of reform, but finally parted ways. China went to socialism, and Japan went to fascism. Japan’s march to the road of militarism stemmed from batches of young soldiers who supported the young emperor and embarked on the road of radical military expansion.
Kishi, the son of a liquor maker, joined the government following graduating from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Imperial University. After Japan launched the September 18th Incident and occupied northeastern my country, it established this puppet regime “Manchukuo” in 1932. Although Kishi was not a soldier, he went as far as the “Manchukuo” to become an official, hoping to swallow China and serve the country. He served as the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Industry of Manchukuo and the Deputy Minister of the General Affairs Department. Together with Hideki Tojo, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, and others, they are also called the “Five Giants of Manchuria”. After Hideki Tojo returned to China to serve as Prime Minister, Nobuyuki Kishi followed him back in 1942 and served as Minister of Commerce and Industry of the Tojo Cabinet.
After the end of World War II in 1945, Kishi was listed as a “Class A war criminal” suspect by the Allied Command and was imprisoned for three years. However, the headquarters of the Allied Forces in Japan led by the United States did not try Kishi and released him; at that time, the communist forces represented by the Soviet Union spread and launched a Cold War with the United States; because of Kishi’s strong pro-American tendencies, the United States regarded him as a Consolidate right-wing conservative camps once morest left-wing ideology in Japan for candidates suitable to lead post-war Japan. Nobusuke Kishi became prime minister in 1957 and signed the “Japan-US Security Treaty” with the United States, which sparked a wave of demonstrations and finally resigned. The relationship between Nobuyuki Kishi and Hideki Tojo, a class-A war criminal, can be imagined with his political inclination. Shinzo Abe grew up under the training of his grandfather Kishi Nobuyuki, which shows that his right-leaning anti-China ideology is deeply rooted.
3. Shinzo Abe. Abe took office for the second time in 2012, reigning for eight years, becoming the longest-serving prime minister of Japan. He is not obeying the US once morest China, he is advocating for the US to be anti-China. He did not obey the United States to expand the military, but to amend the constitution and expand the military.
On the third day following Abe left office in 2020, he immediately went to pay homage to the Yasukuni Shrine. This was a “true self-style” political statement. Then Abe accepted an interview with the Nikkei newspaper, revealing his masterpiece of stirring up anti-China in the United States. He said he traveled to New York to meet with Trump less than ten days following the 2016 U.S. presidential election was over and Trump was confirmed as elected. The meeting focused on emphasizing to Trump “the rise of China’s military threat” and strengthening the Japan-U.S. alliance once morest China.
Now that Shinzo Abe has been assassinated, radical ideology has emerged, and right-wing radicalism has risen. The constitutional revisionists led by the Liberal Democratic Party won the Senate election on Sunday. Japan needs to amend the constitution to establish the right to declare war, and it needs to increase military spending by a large amount. Japan’s Asian neighbors should be worried that the militaristic ghost of the Yamato nation is returning to Korea.
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