From September 18, 1931, to the end of the September 18 Incident, the war of aggression against China lasted for 14 years, which was 14 years of Japan's misdeeds and 14 years when the Chinese people were torn by war.
In order to be independent, the Chinese people shed their blood and built the immortal Great Wall with the spirit of the Anti-Japanese War, and finally won the war.
However, the Japanese did not admit their guilt or make compensation, and still say that the war of aggression against China was a "controversial war" and that they were a good and righteous party, so the Chinese people ran for it, and finally won a belated justice for us 71 years later.
The Japanese side is finally willing to apologize, compensate, and make up for the losses of those Chinese laborers.
So what's going on with Chinese workers? How did we get Japan to apologize?
In Japanese textbooks, they wrote about the war of aggression against China as "a difficult step towards the common prosperity of Greater East Asia" and called themselves China's "good neighbors" and "good brothers."
The reason why they started the war was because of their good intentions and to lead Asia and the world to make common progress.
And that's nothing more than thatWhen Japan transitioned from capitalism to militarism, it was a pretext to sacrifice China's interests in order to alleviate domestic contradictions.
As early as 1868, after the Meiji Restoration, Japan's national power developed at a rapid pace and embarked on the road of capitalismThey used the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" to plunder 200 million taels from the Qing Dynasty, and since then they have tasted the sweetness of war and began to gradually transition to a militaristic country.
In 1900, Japan took advantage of the Gengzi Incident to become one of the main forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and used the "Xinchou Treaty" to occupy the area around Beijing and Tianjin.
In 1904, with the help of the Russo-Japanese War, they occupied our country Lushun and forcibly claimed the privileges of the Northeast.
In 1914, they took advantage of World War I to snatch China's Shandong from Germany.
In the process, Japan's militarization became more and more seriousThis country that has gone astray is bent on implementing a "mainland policy" and encroaching on China step by step.
However, the economic crisis of 1929 shattered their illusions, because Japan's domestic economy was suffering serious losses, agriculture was in a hurry, industry was shrinking, and domestic contradictions were becoming more and more intense, so they had to use foreign wars of aggression to divert contradictions, which is what we call "sacrificing China's interests."
After the September 18 Incident in 1931, because Zhang Xueliang adopted a policy of non-resistance under the instructions of Chiang Kai-shek, the entire three eastern provinces quickly fell, and countless Chinese homes were shattered and displaced.
In 1932, the Songhu Anti-Japanese War broke out, and a large number of houses and shops in Shanghai were bombed by Japanese fighters.
In 1933, the local War of Resistance began, the Japanese army invaded Shanhaiguan, the spearhead of aggression was directed at North China, in 1935 the North China Incident broke out, the Kuomintang general He Yingqin was forced to agree to all the demands made by Japan, and in the same year Japan implemented the so-called "autonomy" in the five provinces of North China, in a vain attempt to establish a puppet Manchukuo.
In 1937, the war turned to the strategic defense stage, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, the full-scale war of aggression against China officially broke out, the Japanese army occupied Beiping, Tianjin and other areas in a few days, and in the same year the second Songhu War of Resistance broke out, Japan's strategy of killing China in March was thwarted, and our army also suffered heavy losses.
In the same year, the Kuomintang lost the Battle of Nanjing, and the Nanjing Massacre broke out, and more than 300,000 innocent Chinese were slaughtered by the Japanese army.
In 1938, in order to stop the advance of the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek ordered people to blow up the dam on the south bank of the Yellow River, although this move successfully prevented the Japanese army from moving south and bought a certain amount of time for the resistance against Japan, but it also directly caused the flood of the Yellow River, and more than one million people died due to floods and famine.
In 1938, the Wuhan War broke out, and in the four-month war, our ** team lost 400,000 yuan, and at the cost of huge sacrifices, dragged the Japanese army to the stage of strategic stalemate.
After the loss of Wuhan in 1938, the Communist Party of China began to gradually assume the identity of the main force of resistance against Japan, and made great contributions in the war behind enemy lines, such as the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, which directly destroyed the cage policy of the Japanese army and greatly boosted the confidence of the Chinese people in resisting Japan.
In 1940, the fascist Axis powers were established, in 1942, China signed the "Declaration of the United Nations" with the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and other countries, and in 1943, China officially entered the strategic stage, and it took more than two years to win the war.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the cumulative losses of our ** team were about 42130,000 people, another 9 million civilians died as a direct result of the fighting, 8 million civilians died as a result of other causes, and 95 million people became refugees because of the war.
14 million young and middle-aged people died after being forcibly conscripted by Japan, and the cumulative number of people lost by China because of this war is more than 50 million, and the cumulative loss of property is at least 560 billion US dollars.
This is the so-called "help" of our "good neighbor" Japan from 1931 to 1945.
And that's not the only evil in Japan.
The main reason why Japan started the war was that it wanted to deflect domestic contradictions and alleviate the domestic economic crisis.
However, there is a clear contradiction between the two, except for the United States, which is a country that reaps the benefits, most of the other countries are getting poorer and poorer in the war, especially Japan, which has also invested a large number of young and strong people in the country.
So what exactly can they do to alleviate the economic crisis?
The answer is simpleGrab labor from the Chinese battlefield.
After the war developed into a strategic stalemate in 1942, people throughout the country began to organize anti-Japanese resistance, so that the process of Japanese aggression against our country was halted for a long time.
Japan is only a small country, and its land area is not even as large as China's larger provinces, and those chaebols in the country support the military when the war is going well, which can be regarded as an investment.
However, seeing that the Japanese army's advance was not smooth, the opposition of the Japanese chaebols became louder, and many people began to question whether the Japanese invasion of China was a correct decision.
At the same time, because all of Japan's young and middle-aged labor force was thrown into the battlefield, no one was engaged in agricultural production, and no one was engaged in factory labor, and the development of the country's industry and agriculture became a huge problem.
In order to silence the mouths of the Japanese chaebols and to maintain the continued development of Japan's local industry and agriculture, Japan began to frantically grab laborers from our country.
According to relevant statistics,At least 40,000 young and middle-aged peasants in the occupied areas were captured and sent to work in Japan.
The families whose main labor force was taken away fell into ruin in an instant, and those who were arrested in Japan were even more miserable, and the Japanese capitalists did not treat them as human beings at allThey are allowed to eat porridge with water every day, and they are only allowed to sleep for five or six hours a day when they sleep, and they basically work the rest of the time, and because of this, many laborers die directly in Japan.
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was finally won, but due to the difficult situation at that time, our country finally gave up its claim for compensation.
Our country treats others like gentlemen, but Japan is a proper villain, and not only does they not pay compensation, but they also do not even have the courage to face history squarely and apologize to our country.
Because of this, many countries look down on Japan, and it is even more widely spread internationally"Germany on its knees is taller than Japan when it is standing."
What makes people feel ironic is that Japan admits the crimes committed against Russia, but does not admit the mistakes against China.
And since my country has already said that it will give up compensation, it is difficult to say anything, and can only look at Japan's "villain proud".
That changed in 1990.
At that time, there was a report titled "The former GDR recognized the Jews' moral right to reparations for the first time in 1988, and agreed to pay 6.2 million marks in compensation to Jewish survivors who were subjected to Nazi ** during World War II".
After the release of this report, Peking University students in my countryTong ZengIn this case, I think that if this is the case, why can't China, which has not received war reparations, do the same?
Therefore, Tong Zeng submitted "China's demand for compensation for Japan's injuries without delay" to the General Office of the National People's Congress, which won the support of a large number of people.
Although there was no official response, Tong Zeng was not discouraged, and because of his persistence and efforts, more and more people joined the struggle, including some Japanese who knew the truth of history.
Because of the attitude of Japan**, this struggle has been going on for 20 years before it has begun to bear fruit, and Japan** has agreed to apologize.
In 2016, the Japanese companies that snatched the workers publicly apologized and randomly promised to provide 100,000 yuan in cash compensation to each of the victims.
Although the compensation is not much, and it is not Japan** who apologizes, but only these companies, this is already a great deal, and we should face up to this significant claim.
Although history is far away, everything that happened in the past is real, and no historical nihilist will be allowed to manipulate it.
As for the crimes committed by the Japanese in China, Japan will ultimately have to pay for them, so if they are unable to face up to the mistakes they have made in the past, how can they talk about the future of China and Japan?
Forgetting history is a betrayal of history, and our generation should remember the shame of the past, strive for self-improvement, and seek justice for China.