Historically, Japan has tried to satisfy its territorial ambitions through aggressive expansion, whether it is Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Korean War or its modern transformation into a great power through reforms.
Even in modern times, Japan's national anthem is still imbued with an atmosphere of aggression, which raises concerns about its ambitions.
In 1869, a British ** teacher suggested to the Meiji Emperor that he compose a Japanese national anthem, and the Japanese top brass adopted this suggestion and commissioned a highly literate military officer to cooperate with the British ** teacher.
After reading various poetry classics, the officer selected four lines of poetry as a song, and the British ** teacher composed a light song based on this. However, the people believe that the national anthem lacks a sense of solemnity, like the labor horn of a farmer in the field.
As a result, the conductor of the Japanese naval band proposed to add a section of the court swallow music to enhance the aesthetics, and this version of the national anthem was unanimously approved and is still used today.
The lyrics of Kimiyo depict the vision of the Japanese emperor for a thousand generations, and it implies Japan's strong belief in the perpetuity of the country. Since the first Emperor Jimmu, the emperor has continued to pass on imperial power through turmoil, showing the stability and inheritance of his family.
In modern times, despite the turmoil of the bourgeois revolution and the change of dynasties in many countries and the establishment of democratic republics**, Japan still retains the emperor system, and the influence of militarist ideology has made the people deeply admire it.
The Japanese regarded the emperor as a symbol of their country, and this belief made them brave and fearless in war, and resolutely upheld the dignity of the emperor even after defeat. The first two sentences of "Kimiyo" wish the emperor a long time, and the last two sentences use "stone" as a metaphor for "country", symbolizing Japan's growth from weakness to strength, accumulating strength, and showing infinite vitality and potential.
Japan used to realize the greatness depicted in the national anthem"Blueprints"At the end of the 19th century, it began to embark on the path of foreign expansion. They first defeated the Qing ** and seized control of North Korea, and then actively infiltrated the northeast region of China, easily seizing Baishan and Heishui.
In 1937, the Japanese army invaded China in an all-out way, bringing great disasters to the Chinese, and then marched into Southeast Asia and frantically plundered local resources. In 1941, Japan, which was already almost crazy, launched a war against the United States, they thought that the war would end soon, but they did not expect that the United States would rely on its strong industrial strength to defeat and defeat the Japanese army in the Pacific Ocean under the initial disadvantage.
By 1945, the Japanese fascists were on the verge of collapse, but they still dreamed of the arrival of the prosperous era depicted in "Jun's Generation", and they also shouted for the survival of the country.
However, the United States used the atomic bomb to give Japan a taste of the horror of nuclear **.
After the war, the moderate policies of the United States gradually weakened the fighting spirit of the Japanese, turning the once heroic men into the lazy people they are today. Although militarism still exists, it has lost the soil for its survival.
Today's Japanese, when singing "Kimi's Generation", no longer have that feeling of blood boiling, but instead there is endless confusion and helplessness. Japan has lost its foundation, and its sovereignty is incomplete, and it will always be under the control of the United States.
In the last century, the suppression of the United States put Japan's economy in trouble and the country's development came to a standstill. The arrival of the epidemic has made Japan's economy even worse, with the unemployment rate remaining high, the people at the bottom living in difficulty, and the suicide rate rising.
It is foreseeable that Japan may decline further in the future, or even become a vassalage of the United States altogether. This means that Japan has lost the opportunity for "small rocks" to become "boulders", and "boulders" to grow "moss".
Due to the geographical constraints of Japan, it is necessary to solve the problem of insufficient resources in order to develop. Although it can be solved by **, they chose war and aggression, which brought deep pain to the people of East Asia.
However, the Japanese have always denied this fact and are constantly distorting history to clear their name.