Some people have always said that Japanese people are very high-quality, very disciplined, and don't like to cause trouble to others.
Uncle Han has also been to Japan three times, and to tell you the truth, the Japanese people I have come into contact with are indeed polite and feel very good.
However, if we look at history, the Japanese are typical"Knowing small etiquette without great righteousness, and being restrained without great virtue".
Why?
Today, Uncle Han will not talk about Japan's discharge of nuclear sewage or Japan's invasion of Asia, but will tell you about several disgusting things that Japan has done in history.
At a glance, the magistrates understood the reason.
* The world's eight major environmental pollution incidents have been evaluated, and each of these eight things is enough to refresh people's three views and lower limits.
The eight major public hazards are:
More than 60 people were killed and thousands were ill in the Maas Valley smog incident in Belgium
Smoke incident in Donora, USA, 5,910 people were sick and 17 people died;
More than 4,000 people died in just five days after the London smog incident, and more than 8,000 people died from the accident in the two months after the accident
The photochemical smog incident in Los Angeles, USA, caused the onset of facial features, headaches, and chest tightness, threatened the safe operation of automobiles and aircraft, and increased traffic accidents
Minamata disease incident in JapanIn total, more than 50 people died, and 283 people were seriously injured and disabled
Toyama, JapanBone pain incidents killed 34 people;More than 280 people fell ill
More than 2,000 people were killed in the Yokkaichi incident in Japan, and dozens of people died and committed suicide due to unbearable illness
Japanese rice bran oil incident, guidedHundreds of thousands of chickens died, more than 5,000 people fell ill, and 16 people died
Everyone found that of these eight things, the Japanese contributed four, that is, half of them.
Let's start with JapanMinamata disease incident
In June 1952, there was a town called Minamata in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
One day, a local fisherman noticed that his cat was very strange, walking crookedly, and twitching from time to time, as if dancing, and finally his cat committed suicide by jumping into the sea.
This is not an isolated case.
Until 1953, more than 50,000 cats in Kumamoto committed suicide by jumping into the sea, and the locals were very strange and thought that the cats were sick en masse.
In 1956, what had happened to cats carried over to humans.
More and more local residents have difficulty walking, difficulty speaking, restlessness, and unbearable painThere are people hereThe body bends and screams to death.
At first, the doctor checked for a long time and didn't know what the situation was.
However, the locals suspect that it is the local plant of the Japanese nitrogen fertilizer companyThe wastewater that has not been treated in any way is discharged into Minamata Bay.
And this wastewater contains a lot of mercury, also known as mercury. This is a highly toxic heavy metal.
Of course, the Japanese nitrogen fertilizer company did not admit it, and asked some experts and scholars to clear their name, advertising that the water they discharged was filtered through the so-called advanced purification system and would not be harmful.
The company's president, Kiichi Yoshioka, also drank the water filtered by the water purification system in front of the ** in public to prove his innocence.
But then after the official censorship of Japan,The so-called water purification system is useless at allKiichi Yoshioka did not drink the water discharged from the factory, but the clean water that had been prepared in advance.
But at that time, the public was deceived by Kiichi Yoshioka and believed this set of statements.
As a result, there have been three outbreaks of Minamata disease in Japan since then, and the symptoms are the same in different locations.
In the end, it was not until 1977 that all circles in Japan finally realized who was to blame.
Kumamoto had toIt took 48.5 billion yen and 14 years to get rid of all the toxic sludge.
But by this time, the first deceased to die because of sewage had been dead for 21 years.
It took another 10 years for the Minamata disease lawsuit to reach a final arbitration result, with the victims awarded millions of dollars in damages.
In fact, the Japanese nitrogen fertilizer company knew early on that it was its own sewage that caused all this.
Japan itself commented on the incident"That's all there is to the Hiroshima atomic bomb incidentIt is the most terrifying public pest in the history of mankind
In 1955, a strange disease appeared in Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
Sick people startIt is pain in the joints of the waist, back, hands, feet, etc., and then spreads all over the body, with a pinprick pain, and after a few years, the bones are seriously deformed, the bones are brittle and easy to break, and even slight activity or coughing, which can cause multiple pathological fractures, and finally die of weakness and pain.
At that time, the patient could not **, and the patient could only die in endless pain, which became known as the Toyama Bone Pain Incident.
How did this disease come about?
In order to reduce production costs, the local Mitsui Metal Mining Company's Kamioka zinc smelter discharged untreated wastewater directly.
What did it lead to?
The cadmium content of the local cultivated land is seriously exceeded, and the rice grown on this land will be poisoned if eaten by people.
After the incident broke out, Mitsui Metal of course had a traditional skill: death does not admit it.
Japan*** also slapped a swollen face and became fat, denying that it caused a public nuisanceMany people don't feel any discomfort, and they can't see the symptoms they say, so they can't be said to be a public nuisance
So much so that the locals ate such poisoned rice for several years.
Until 1968,Japan's Mitsui Metal was forced to admit its mistake.
Mind you, it's forced.
Moreover, Mitsui can delay the matter of compensation, pay less if it can, and pay less if it can, and if it can, it will not pay.
It was only in 1972 that the court finally handed down its verdict, 17 years after the first patient appeared.
1955Yokkaichi asthma incidentBecause of the exhaust gas emitted by local chemical enterprises, various toxic gases in the local air are seriously exceeded.
In 1961, respiratory diseases began to occur in the area and spread rapidly. Chronic bronchitis has been reported to account for 25% of patients, 30% for asthma, and 15% for emphysema.
In 1964, there was three days of smoke here, and many asthma patients died as a result. In 1967, some patients committed suicide because they could not bear the torture. In 1970, more than 500 patients were affected. In 1972, there were 871 asthma patients and 11 deaths in the city
Of course, the chemical plant dies and does not admit that it is caused by its own actionsThe protracted lawsuit lasted from 1967 to 1972, and although the factory lost the lawsuit, it did not pay compensation, but only promised to improve the exhaust emission operation process.
And there are as many victims as many as the local ** in this matter775491 people.
FourthRice bran oil incidentThis incident also happened to animals first, and then to humans.
In March 1968, hundreds of thousands of chickens in Kyushu, Shikoku and other regions of Japan suddenly died en masseFeed poisoning. However, because the poison was not identified at that time, it was not investigated.
In June and October of that year, 4 more families went to the Kyushu University Affiliated Hospital for treatment due to an unexplained ** disease, and the initial symptoms of the patients were acne-like rash, dark nails, **pigmentation, conjunctival hyperemia, etc.
Within 3 months thereafterAnother 325 patients from 112 families were diagnosed, and they continued to appear throughout the country after that. By 1977, tens of thousands of people had died from the disease.
In 1978, the total number of confirmed cases reached 1,684.
After investigation, it was found that the edible oil factory of a grain processing company in Omuta City, Kyushu, used polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBS) liquid as heat transfer oil in the deodorization process in order to reduce costs and pursue profits in the production of rice bran oil.
The factory production management was poor, and the PCBS was mixed with rice bran oil. As the contaminated rice bran oil was sold, it caused poisoning, illness or death of people.
And what's even more terrifying is that the disease is hereditary, and if a pregnant woman is poisoned, the child born will also be poisoned. The probability of deformity is very high.
This incident is still a classic Japanese characteristic, and it has been another ten years.
Ten years later, only 1,684 people have been identified as victims by Japan** and have the right to claim compensation.
Many more victims have been ignored.
After reviewing the four major pollution incidents in Japan, I think you will understand the meaning of the sentence at the beginning of this article.
"Knowing small etiquette without great righteousness, and being restrained without great virtue".
As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Sima Guang said.
The Japanese know the small courtesy but not the great righteousness
This is the typical national characteristic of the Japanese, they relish the sub-sections and etiquette, bow one sentence at a time, but they bow at most, and even better, bow at 90 degrees, or come to a big bow.
But when the etiquette comes, they continue to do the bad things that should be done.
They do this to themselves, let alone to other countries
No, they have added the ninth largest environmental hazard to the world.
Maybe a few years later, the JapaneseWill say that we all bowed and apologized, why bother with it?
So, stop thinking of the Japanese as a model of morality.
There may be ulterior motives behind their politeness.