Japan originally wanted to take advantage of Shinzo's state funeral to launch a "condolence diplomacy" to enhance its international image. However, the plan was snubbed by Western countries, and the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) refused to attend for various reasons, sending only a few former leaders to deal with it. This made Japan** and the new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida very embarrassed, and also exposed that Japan's status in the Western world is not high.
* Shinzo is a former prime minister of Japan who was assassinated and killed. His state funeral was held in Tokyo on September 27 and was attended by 3,600 domestic guests and 700 overseas personnel, according to Japanese officials. According to the arrangement of Japan, this state funeral was supposed to be a grand event to invite the leaders of important countries around the world to pay tribute, and it was also a diplomatic show by Fumio Kishida. Unfortunately, none of this worked out as expected.
Just two days before the state funeral, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suddenly informed Japan** that he could not attend the state funeral due to the need for relief from victims in the country. This also means that, except for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the leaders of the other six G7 countries did not appear at the funeral of **. According to reference news reports, in order to save some face for Japan, the G7 countries other than Japan have sent some former leaders to attend the state funeral of **.
Such a result made the Japanese ** and Fumio Kishida very disappointed, and their "condolence diplomacy" plan completely failed, and their prestige was also damaged. They can't help but ask, why are Western countries so indifferent to the state funeral of **?
In fact, the attitude of Western countries towards Japan has always been to take advantage of Japan rather than respect it. Historically, although Japan claims to be part of Western civilization by breaking away from Asia and joining Europe, its actions have been barbaric and cruel. It once invaded China, causing the deaths of 30 million people, and also created a bloody ** in Nanjing, which is intolerable to Western civilization. Moreover, China is a country with a long civilization and the source of Japan's culture, and Japan's atrocities against China also show its wolf ambitions. It's like European countries are killing in Greece, Western countries don't do such things with their own cultural homologous, but Japan does, so Western countries never see Japan as a member of Western civilization.
Ethnically, Japan is Asian, completely different from Westerners, and even though Japan once wanted to change its ethnicity and encourage Japanese women to combine with Western men, this did not change the Asian face of the Japanese. Including the United States, the use of Japan by Western countries is also based on strategic and interest considerations, not on the basis of family affection and friendship considerations, so the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo is of no value to Western countries, and there is no need for them to attend his state funeral.
It is precisely because of this that Western countries will send former leaders to symbolically participate in the state funeral of **, which is a euphemistic refusal and an implicit warning. If one day Japan loses its usefulness and becomes a second- or third-rate country, then these Western countries, which are now attending the state funeral, will mercilessly criticize Japan, accuse Japan of discharging nuclear sewage into the Pacific Ocean, and scold Japan as a pig or a dog.