Chapter seven hundred and forty-eight man-made disasters
The natural disaster has not ended yet, and another terrible disaster strikes!
Facing an unprecedented earthquake, the Japanese government was caught off guard.
At this time, Japan's economy was in a downturn. In the short 15 years since Emperor Taisho came to power, Japan's cabinet changed as many as 10 times, almost every year.
When the earthquake broke out, Japan was in the midst of a transition between the old and new cabinets, and uprisings and riots occurred one after another across Japan. Prime Minister-elect Yamamoto Gonbei has not yet determined the list of cabinet members, and former Prime Minister Tomosaburo Kato is still serving as the caretaker prime minister.
Therefore, the Japanese government decided to transfer the conflict from the earthquake to other places¨¨¨
Late that night, "the Koreans rioted and set fires everywhere," "the fires were set by socialists and Koreans," and "they poisoned wells, robbed, raped, and committed all kinds of evil." All kinds of statements filled the smoke from Tokyo to Yokohama.
ruins.
Overnight, the "Emperor abdicated" and the clamor for government accountability subsided.
On the streets and alleys, countless young people and veterans organized self-police groups. They set up checkpoints and strictly checked passers-by. They were armed with machetes, bamboo guns and sticks.
The Chinese in Japan also suffered a huge impact.
Huang Zilian, a Zhejiang native, crowded anxiously in the Lin Heji Inn at 8-chome, Oshima Town, Kodong District. With him, there were a total of 174 Zhejiang fellows, all of whom came from Wenzhou and Chuzhou in southern Zhejiang. Huang Zilian’s hometown
It is Kengyuan Village, Ersandu, Yongjia County.
Aftershocks still occur from time to time, and the earth is still shaking.
At around 9 o'clock in the evening, the tranquility of Lin Heji Inn was shattered by the swarm of Japanese. Hundreds of Japanese "Youth Vigilante Corps" members, police and soldiers rushed into this small inn and demanded that China
People immediately got up and sent them back home.
Huang Zilian and others were driven out of the inn, and the Japanese led them to gather in the open space outside the inn. Suddenly, the Japanese shouted: "Earthquake 1, 174 Chinese people lie down obediently on the trembling ground. The Japanese swarmed in
Go up, chop with axes, chop with knives, stab with swords, stab with hooks... The miserable howls of the Chinese people echoed through the sky, echoing the rumble of the earth.
Huang Zilian passed out, and a big hole was opened behind his head and right ear. His companions struggled and twisted before dying, and some climbed on top of him. Under the cover of these corpses...he became the only one among the 174 people.
of survivors.
When her life was hanging by a thread, Huang Zilian saw a Japanese policeman walking by and shouted for help. The police rescued him and handed him over to the Japanese martial law troops. The Japanese army treated Huang Zilian like a prisoner of war and imprisoned Huang Zilian in Xishiye, Shita Chiba.
Concentration camp. Many surviving Chinese have gathered there.
After Huang Zilian was imprisoned in the Xi Zhinye Concentration Camp, he learned that...tragic stories like his had happened to many compatriots.
Pan Ruifa of Ouhai recalled: "The three of us took the cable car and arrived at Mikawa Island Station. When we were about to get off, the person in front of us was hooked to death by the Japanese with an iron hook tied to a bamboo pole. The two of us were frightened.
I don’t dare to get out of the car.”
Ouhai Chen Chongfan recalled: "I lived in 8-chome, Oshima Town, and I went out on the day of the earthquake... When I came back a few days later, it turned out that everyone who lived with me was dead. Six people in our village were killed by the Japanese.
My cousin Chen Yinshou was arrested on the road and was imprisoned in Chiba Prefecture for a month before being released."
Zhu Mukun from Qingtian said: "I saw the Japanese carrying things from a distance to beat people... They used sticks, swords, guns, and long iron hooks to chase and beat Koreans and Chinese, and some were pulled while hiding under the bed.
Come out and kill them, even if you see the back of the head is flat."
In fact, since the Spanish massacred overseas Chinese in the Philippines in 1603 and the Dutch massacred overseas Chinese in Indonesia in 1704, this was the third massacre of overseas Chinese in the history.
Statistics after the event showed that a total of 716 Chinese were mutilated in the Japanese earthquake, including 622 people who died on the spot, 11 people who were missing, and 83 people who were injured. Among these victims, a total of 658 people came from Wenzhou and Chuzhou, Zhejiang...
605 people died and 53 were injured. There were also 42 Chinese workers from Wenzhou. Although they were witnessed by their colleagues, their names were unknown and they were not included in the statistics. The total number of Chinese workers killed in Zhejiang was 700, of which 639 were killed and 61 were injured.
people.
The news spread back to Wenzhou, Chuzhou, from thoroughfares to rural villages...cries were heard almost everywhere!
After Huang Zilian was beaten to death, the 30 yuan he had on him was taken away by the Japanese. Almost all the Chinese victims had their belongings robbed, and their bodies were either thrown into the river or set on fire.
"At that time, there were rumors in Tokyo and nearby counties that the Koreans were responsible for setting fires and poisoning. So they used all their strength, including the military police, youth leagues, citizens, and villagers, to hunt down all the Koreans, old and young, and brutally kill them.
The terrible ones are the Koreans and the Chinese people are often mentioned in the same breath. As a result, the Chinese people suffered a terrible disaster. Countless people were deliberately killed and beaten. They were violently attacked with swords, sticks and fists, and they were almost not treated as human beings.
Zhejiang natives Han Chaochu (Kobe Business School), Shen Chantai (College Normal University), Cai Jingde (senior engineer), Chen Miao and others have proven in many ways that they are Chinese, but they have been beaten to death several times, and they have claimed that Chinese people should also be beaten...
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"Six people including Jiang Jianwu from Jiangsu took refuge in Yokohama, Tokyo, on the coast of Omori. They rented a house in a Japanese house after the disaster. After the disaster, the owner of the house drew a knife and slapped the table on the table, saying, "We will kill the Chinese people today." After several pleas, they were able to avoid death..."
"At that time, people in Japan were sad, angry and desolate. Many of them had completely lost their humanity and were cruel and vicious, which made me tremble when I heard about it. Moreover, because China was anti-Japanese, whenever I met a Chinese, I was always susceptible to emotional impulses and took advantage of them. Worse,
Take this moment as a good opportunity to wipe out the Chinese workers."
Even worse than the Chinese are the Koreans.
The massacre was originally aimed at them.
On the day after the earthquake, Japan declared nationwide martial law. At the beginning, the task of martial law in the disaster area was actually undertaken by the local "Youth Vigilance Group".
On that day, rumors spread in the disaster area that the Koreans took advantage of the chaos to set fires and poison the wells. Therefore, under the secret planning of the government, a massacre plan was launched to target the Koreans.
Beginning on the afternoon of September 2, with the cooperation of the military and police, the "Youth Vigilante Group" carried out extremely cold-blooded and brutal massacres in areas populated by Koreans, using a large number of cold weapons. Almost none of the dead had intact bodies. The death toll was approximately
Around 6,000-10,000 people.
In just a few days, thousands of North Koreans were brutally murdered. The Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs Police Security Bureau later announced that...a total of 231 North Koreans, 3 Chinese and 59 Japanese were executed for taking advantage of the situation, including "national citizens"
Most of them are manslaughter."
However, not only are those criminal facts purely fabricated, the number of victims, whether they are Korean, Chinese or Japanese, has been greatly reduced.
So, how did all this happen? Is it just a speculative work of Hirohito? Why are the Japanese so indifferent when a disaster strikes? What kind of spiritual code does this nation contain behind it?
It all goes back to May 22, 1903.
That day, next to the Huayan Falls in Nikko, a small town, 18-year-old college student Fujimura Cao peeled off a piece of bark from a quince tree, wrote "The Feeling of the Rock Head" and then drowned himself in the pool. This suicide note later became a sensation.
Here... Fujimura Sou repeatedly asked about the meaning of life. He also wrote his own answer: "It is unsolvable."
He said, "I harbored this hatred and became depressed, and eventually I decided to die."
Soon, the word "bored" became the most popular word among Japanese college students. "Bored" appeared at the same time as "success". If we say that since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has "departed from Asia and entered Europe" and became rich and powerful.
Pursuing, tens of millions of citizens are crawling under this goal... endure hunger, and regard death as home, thus creating the "Meiji spirit", then... from here on, this spirit not only retreats to the corner of the Japanese nation's soul, but also becomes popular in the world.
In the vast and constantly changing market, what is gradually growing is exactly its opposite.
Unlike their parents, the "success" pursued by the new generation of young people has nothing to do with the country.
Almost as soon as the Russo-Japanese War came to an end, millions of young people began to develop a new consciousness of Japan: the status of a great power had been achieved, and “it is now time to pursue personal goals that have nothing to do with national goals.”
To this end, they studied hard, entered university...and gradually accepted liberal ideas; then, they entered companies, became the middle class, and began to imitate the European and American lifestyle.
However, this group of people is so isolated: there are too few young people who have become "new citizens" and receive considerable salaries; for those young people who are from rural areas or from poor families, the only way to change their destiny is still to join the army!
In other words... they are not only ideologically opposed to their parents and the "Meiji spirit", they are also opposed to their peers, especially the young soldiers, in terms of identity. In one generation, Japan was divided into two
There are two parts: one is Western, urban, middle class and representative politics, the other is Eastern, village community, poor peasants and the emperor system.
Compared with young soldiers, they are superior, knowledgeable, and favored by society. Using them as carriers, modern political parties have set off wave after wave of constitutional movements. The so-called "Taisho Democratic Period" is largely due to them
The product of. However, this representative system is so ridiculous and superficial, just like their relationship with Japanese society: from Hara Kei Cabinet, Takahashi Cabinet to Kato Cabinet, Japan's party politics has always been shrouded in the shadow of ancient traditions; almost
It can be said that it is just a gift from the old people, especially the elders of Saionji Temple. Taking several prime ministers as an example, most of them were soldiers. Only when they needed the support of political parties, they joined the Political Friends Association or the Constitutional Government Association.
All of this makes the young people extremely "bored" and always bored. In their boredom, a confrontational and disintegrated Japan appears: respecting the king and rejecting the foreigners, restoring the past and reforming, locking down the country and founding the country, preserving the national essence or civilizing and enlightening,
Even representative system is still militarization, war is still peace.
The old "Meiji spirit" has died, and the new Taisho faith has not been born. This divided and fragmented conceptual world is the source of the expression of the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Just as 1923 was the peak and end of Japanese party politics, in 1923, Japan stood at the crack of the times.
At this time, Wang Hengyue, the President of the Republic of China, also decided to stoke another "fire" in Japan!!