Japan is a country with low self-esteem, and it has bandit genes in its bones. The humiliation suffered by China in modern times has been shadowed by the Japanese every time.
After the Meiji Restoration, Japan entered the capitalist era, and with the continuous development of productive forces, they also began to expand abroad.
There is a place that the Japanese dream of, and said that they would rather not be in the country than keep itSo what is it that makes Japan, which thinks it is noble, so longing?
Historical events such as the "September 18 Incident" and the "War of Aggression against China" recorded in the history books are too profound, but many people stay in the modern history of Japan during World War II, in fact, as early as 1874, Japan began the road of foreign expansion.
In the Meiji Restoration, the Meiji Emperor defeated the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Emperor had a short-lived rightAfter that, they entered the industrial age, but the Japanese mainland and the lack of resources limited their development, so they patrolled left and right, and fell in love with Northeast China.
Why the Northeast and not other regions?There are many reasons for this, but it can be said that each of the advantages that Tohoku has is something that Japan desperately wants.
First of all, the most direct reason is that Japan is not far from Tohoku geographically, and the latitude is about the same as Japan's, and the climate meets the conditions that the Japanese want.
Secondly, the main reason why the Japanese covet the Northeast is that the Northeast region is blessed with unique resource advantages. The four seasons in the Northeast are distinct, and the black soil nourished by spring rain and winter snow is very suitable for the cultivation of food cropsThe strong sunlight and the temperature difference between day and night, coupled with the suitable growth properties of the black soil itself, have created high yields and fine yields of crops in Northeast China.
Rice, corn, soybeans and other basic crops are the advantages of the Northeast, in today's view, the yield of the Northeast is far inferior to the South, but in terms of nutrition and taste, the grain crops in the South are several grades worse than the NortheastToday, many people eat rice from the northeast and then look at the rice from the south, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is difficult to swallow.
Third, the resource advantages of Northeast China. Black soil can breed delicious crops, so the black soil also contains rich mineral resources. Forest timber, coal, iron ore, copper ore, oil, etc. are inexhaustible.
Both grain and various mineral resources were indispensable for war in those days and months, and the basic conditions for a country's prosperity and strength.
Fourth, cultural factors. Geographically,Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and the Tohoku region are connected in a line, and Japan took the lead in attacking the Korean Peninsula before it entered the Tohoku region, but it only used the Korean Peninsula as a springboard, and the goal was still in the Tohoku.
Then, Japan, which had just entered capitalism, was deeply influenced by Western thought, not only industrial technology, but also ideology and culture, and cultural invasion was sometimes more terrible than military invasionIt is to change a country from the minds of the masses at the bottom, and the end result is the complete enslavement of the country, such as today's South Korea.
However, the Japanese nation has a fairly high level of worship for its own culture, and in order to ensure the continuation of its own culture, Tohoku can not only become an industrial, agricultural and military base, but also an extension of Japanese cultural and spiritual influence. Therefore, from a cultural point of view, it is also imperative to occupy the Northeast.
Fifth, the military factor. We know that Japan is an island country, not connected to any continent, the United States at the same time has a vast land area, Britain is adjacent to the European continent, ** occupies the largest area of land, and in that era of wolf smoke, war is the most direct means of seizing resources. However, as far as Japan is concerned, the size of the island country does not have much strategic depth, and it is not impossible for it to destroy the country in an instant when it encounters a powerful military bloc.
The Tohoku region itself is nearly three times the area of the Japanese mainland, and the natural geographical advantage is hard to findBlessed with strategic depth and resources, Tohoku has been a fat meat in the eyes of the Japanese from the very beginning.
So, if Japan succeeds in seizing Northeast China, does it mean that they have met their strategic and survival needs, and they will stop their external expansion?
Definitely not, Japan is an insatiable nation, the Far East north of the Northeast is more rich in minerals, their purpose is to occupy the Northeast and then use it as a base, backed by the mineral resources of the Far East, Xu Tu the whole of East Asia and even Southeast Asia.
After the First World War, China, as the victorious power, not only did not obtain its due benefits, but was divided by the foreign powers, and the Japanese took the opportunity to move in China continuouslyThrough various means, there are entanglements of interests with various warlords, and their purpose is to completely occupy China.
The outbreak of the September 18 Incident in 1931 marked the official invasion of Japan, and they occupied the Northeast region for the first time, and then established the "Puppet Manchukuo" in the following year, and the area of this so-called "puppet Manchukuo" country included the entire Northeast except Dalian, as well as parts of Mengdong and Hebei, which shows that Japan's coveting of the Northeast is well known.
We can also see the difference in the Tohoku region of the Japanese team through history. In the early and anti-Japanese war periods, Japan burned, killed and looted other regions, and of course it was not friendly to the people in the northeast, but they engaged in infrastructure construction in the northeast region, such as railways, factories, etc., and the northeast had become a base in their eyes at that time.
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, but the world background at that time was World War II, and Japan's surrender was just a surrender to the world, not including China.
Later, under the strong military threat of the Soviet Union, Japan had to announce its surrender to China on September 2, and thus their invasion of Northeast China and even the whole of China was declared a failure.
Today's China is not the China of a hundred years ago, and the Northeast is not the Northeast of the original, it has become the heavy industry base of the Republic, and to this day, the Northeast is still rich in resources, to give an inappropriate example, even if the Northeast region is listed alone, then it is also one of the top ten regions in the world today.
And Japan is still the same Japan, although there has been significant progress in all areasBut the basic plate has not changed, the territory is small, the resources are scarce, and their villainous heart has not changed.
Perhaps they themselves realized that sooner or later the island nation would undergo great changes, so they spared no expense to buy more than 1.1 million square kilometers of land from Brazil.
It's a rainy day for Japan, and it's also a hidden danger for BrazilToday's Palestine and Israel may be repeated in Brazil and Japan, and the story of Mr. Dongguo and the wolf is not a legend.
After all, the Japanese national identity is very distorted, they know small courtesies but no great righteousness, and they are strict but not virtuous. Our ancestors asserted them thousands of years ago.