Every Chinese knows that our country is a multi-ethnic family, with a total of 56 ethnic groups.
In addition to our local ethnic minorities, there are also 14 main ethnic groups of our land neighbors, including Russians, Mongolians, Jings, Tajiks, Koreans, and Kazakhs, who live together with us on this land.
What is puzzling is that although Japan and China have inextricable historical ties and the two countries have in-depth exchanges in various fields such as culture, politics, and society, it is strange that among China's 56 ethnic groups, there has never been a "Japanese nation".
What is the reason for this?
Although Japan did not leave the "Japanese nation" in Japan because of the insufficient number of ethnic groups, the population of the Yamato nation is indeed very large, about 1300 million, even on a global scale, is a super-large nation.
Although the Yamato people are found in most countries around the world, they do not include China, which is across the sea from Japan. It is undeniable that Japan and China did have many ties in history, and there were also kinship ties between the He, Korean, Han, and Mongolian ethnic groups.
Judging from the appearance of the people, it is difficult to distinguish between the Han people, the Korean people and the He people.
China and Japan have a deep connection in mythology and stories. One of the most famous is"Xu Fu Dongdu"story. Legend has it that there was a monk named Xu Fu in the Qin Dynasty, who was looking for the elixir of life for Qin Shi Huang and led three thousand boys and girls to the sea in search of Penglai Immortal Mountain.
However, after this voyage, Xu Fu never returned. There is a Japanese folk legend about Seofuku's whereabouts, which is that he arrived in Wakayama, Japan, and settled there.
He brought writing, texts, and advanced technology to Japan, which led to the formation of the later Japanese. Japan is so convinced of this legend that successive emperors would pay homage to Xu Fu with the highest level of worship.
During the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu presented a gold seal engraved with the words "King of Han and Japanese Slaves" to tributary Japanese envoys, officially confirming Japan's status as a vassal state of the Han Dynasty.
For the long period that followed, Japan maintained a master-slave relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty until the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when there was a brief period of severance of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
However, this has not changed the close ties between Japan and Japan.
When the Sui Dynasty unified the Central Plains, Japan sent Ono Meiko to the Sui Dynasty to establish contact and presented a national letter: "The Emperor at Sunrise to the Emperor at Sunset".
This made Emperor Yang of Sui angry, but he was finally dissuaded by his ministers to calm down his anger and give the "Wa Kingdom" a corresponding reward.
After this incident, Japan began to have the idea of separating from the vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty, and officially changed the name of the country to "Japan", and no longer called itself "Wakoku".
After the Tang Dynasty, exchanges between Japan and the Central Plains Dynasty became more and more frequent. In 663 AD, the Tang army and the Japanese army fought fiercely at the mouth of the Baijiang River, and the Tang army only won 130,000 men defeated more than 40,000 Japanese men, and Japan was deeply shaken by this battle.
Immediately after the war, Japan sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to cross the ocean and go to China to learn advanced civilization. Soon after, Japan implemented the "Taika Reform" in the country, and established a national system similar to that of China.
To this day, Japan still retains a lot of the culture of the Tang Dynasty, and its ancient capitals such as Kyoto and Nara are almost exact replicas of ancient cities such as Luoyang and Xi'an in China.
Since then, many Japanese have begun to enter our country.
Although Japan has learned advanced systems from China, it has not been grateful, but has inflated its ambitions. Since the 14th century, Japanese daimyos, samurai or ronin have been harassing villages and towns in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, he formulated a "mainland policy" with the intention of expanding by force and occupying the East Asian continent. Subsequently, the Japanese army launched the "Wanli Korean War", although the Ming army won a complete victory, but also laid the foundation for the later Sino-Japanese War and the war of aggression against China.
In 1853, the United States forcibly opened Japan's door with the power of the first country, allowing Japan to see the powerful power of the industrial age. Thus, Japan embarked on the path of reform of the Meiji Restoration, which was painful but brought about profound changes in Japan.
After the reform, Japan's national strength was unprecedentedly strong, and the Japanese militarists had already made up their minds that in order to gain a foothold on the East Asian continent, they had to encroach on the resources of the East Asian continent, Southeast Asia, and even the entire Pacific Ocean.
Driven by this ideology, Japan embarked on a road of strengthening its military with reckless militarism, and regarded the militarist ideology of colonial expansion as its primary foreign policy.
Since the 19th century, Japan has been trying to expand abroad, and after successfully annexing the Ryukyus in 1879, it has provoked a series of wars such as the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.
During this period, China's northeast region and the Korean Peninsula were invaded by Japan to varying degrees, especially the northeast region, which was regarded as a treasure by Japan because of its fertile land and rich resources.
In 1905, the Northeast region was divided between Japan and Tsarist Russia, and Japan immediately launched the "Japanese" movement in the Northeast.
At the beginning of the 20 th century, Japan formulated a plan to invade our country, and they tried to gradually infiltrate our country through the immigration of the Yamato nation, and finally achieve the goal of controlling our country.
To this end, they set up colonial pilot projects such as the Dalian Agricultural Co., Ltd. and the Fengtian Japanese Overseas Chinese Co., Ltd. to attract a large number of Japanese immigrants to the northeast region. They used a variety of means, including profit** and the expulsion of the aborigines by force, so that a large number of Japanese soon appeared in the Tohoku region.
By 1933, there were more than 150,000 Japanese living in Shenyang, and nearly 2 million Japanese immigrants from other places.
Before the end of World War II, Japan established more than 10,000 immigrant villages in the three eastern provinces, forcibly occupying 3900 million acres of cultivated land. What is even more infuriating is that Japan has also implemented distorted education in the Tohoku region, in an attempt to make the Yamato people become the "aborigines" of the Tohoku through cultural influence.
Although Japan's plan ultimately failed, millions of Japanese immigrants remained in our country. Although the Soviet Union sent hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army to Siberia to open up the wasteland, there were still many Japanese immigrants who could not be resettled.
Therefore, after our country took over the three eastern provinces, it became an urgent task to deal with these Japanese immigrants.
Respect history and remember the pain. China** resolutely opposes the fact that the descendants of the Japanese invaders live in China. From 1946 to 1952, China carried out two large-scale repatriation of Japanese nationals, and all but a very small number of Japanese women were sent back to their homeland.
Although diplomatic relations between China and Japan have been normalized, China** has still not stopped the repatriation of overseas Japanese. Because China will never forget the crimes of the Japanese invaders, who brought deep harm and suffering to the Chinese people.
After decades of repatriation, the number of Japanese remaining in our country was greatly reduced, and Japan's aggressive plan ended in failure, so the so-called "Japanese ethnic group" no longer existed.