Today we will talk about the surrender of Japan.
In fact, this day was destined when it began to swell, but surrendering was not necessarily a bad thing for it. Surrender turned out to be a good thing for it.
Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan's social and economic development has surpassed that of its close neighbors the Qing Dynasty and the Tsar**, especially its industrialization, which has made the development of the military industry stand out in East Asia and become a hegemon in the East.
This was followed by the victory in the Sino-Japanese War with the Qing Dynasty, which demonstrated Japan's military strength at the time, both in the successful expulsion and occupation of the Qing Dynasty in Korea, and in the occupation of Taiwan, the Ryukyus, and the Penghu Islands.
Among them, in the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, the Beiyang Navy of the Great Qing Dynasty was completely destroyed, and at the same time invaded the Liaodong Peninsula from the Korean Peninsula from the land, making its military strength, national strength and influence in the region become the world's recognized oriental power, and it was also the heyday of the Japanese Empire, so that the Great Qing Dynasty had fallen the Dragon Banner and China ** when it dared to participate in a world war and armed seize Qingdao, Jiaozhou Bay, Germany's territory in Shandong, China.
However, the rise of China occurred at the time of the fall and rise of the Qing Dynasty. It should be said that since the Age of Discovery, no country in the world has been able to absolutely block its coastline without any influence from hostile forces in the outside world.
As far as Sino-Japanese relations are concerned, Japan has also made great efforts to overthrow the Qing regime. Not to mention the invasion of the Eight-Nation Coalition organized by Japan in conjunction with other powers in the late Qing Dynasty and the war benefits it obtained from the Great Qing Dynasty, even after the establishment of the first country, Japan still actively supported Zhang Zuolin, a separatist force in northeast China, to seize the leading power, and it was also very successful, Zhang Zuolin finally entered Beijing and even the Central Plains.
It can be said that from Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang to the later planning and establishment of the 'Manchukuo' with Pu Yi as a puppet, behind them were all Japanese screenwriters, directors, and even shirtless in person.
Another Japanese involvement in Chinese affairs was the establishment of the League. From the limited reading, it can be understood that Sun Wen's Kuomintang originated from Japan's subversion of the Qing Dynasty, and that the Kuomintang was founded in Japan, and even Sun Wen's later better known name 'Sun Yat-sen' evolved from his Japanese name 'Zhongshan Qiao'. Sun Wen failed in armed uprisings again and again, and then ran back to Japan in an attempt to make a comeback. There is no way for the Chinese, there is no choice, who made Japan a "friendly" neighbor of China?
The greed of the Japanese has no end, and it has also been fed step by step by the Chinese authorities, who are not angry. The 918 Shenyang Incident in 1931 was an accident, but the fact that 20,000 Japanese Kwantung Army was able to easily occupy the entire northeast of China is not something that normal people can understand.
However, even the Chinese and China ** at that time regarded this incident as a national shame. Then in 1937, the 77 Lugou Bridge Incident came to a state of all-out war between the Japanese militarism and the Chinese military and civilians, although at that time, due to China's national conditions, they did not openly declare war on Japan like the later Americans.
Then the logic below is simple. The Japanese army wants to confront the Chinese people in the vast desert area of the land of China, which involves the exhaustion of military and material resources. To fight a war is to have resources, men, guns, steel, food, bullets, and fuel. Who is providing these? Who should I ask for now? United States!
If the United States continues to provide Japan with these supplies, the Japanese will be able to continue fighting. But Japan hit a nail in the coffin: the Americans wanted Japan to stop the expansion of the war and make peace with the Chinese. Of course, China's condition is that Japan must spit out a part of what it invaded in the past, and this is "hard to give up good money"! So the frenzied Japanese attacked the Americans directly, attacked the American fleet in Hawaii, captured the American Philippines, and caused the American Governor-General MacArthur to flee.
Since then, Japan has fallen into passivity, and has to continue to fight with the Chinese, and has to begin to deal with wave after wave of attacks from the Americans and the British, first on the outer islands, then gradually approaching the main island, and finally ushered in the bombing of Tokyo and ushered in two atomic bombs.
As the successor of the Tsar, Stalin wanted to restore the former glory of Tsarist Russia in the Far East, so the puppet state of Manchukuo was captured, the Korean Peninsula was captured, and the Kuril Islands were captured.
By this time, the U.S. bombardment had been increasing, the Soviet Red Army was advancing rapidly, and the soldiers and civilians on the Chinese front and rear were firmly holding back the millions of Japanese troops who could not move, and the Japanese really reached the time when the edifice was about to fall. The die-hard soldiers shouted "I want to have a life, I want a pile of meat", are they really willing to let the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China take it? Willing to destroy the country? Of course not! So, it was the Japanese emperor who made an arbitrary decision: announce surrender!
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