Japan's sinking immigration plan

According to Dahe Daily reported on August 30th, on September14th, the movie "The Sinking of Japan" with an investment of 2 billion yen and the largest investment in Japanese film history began to be released in China. This is a remake of 1973' s old work of the same name, which is adapted from the disaster novel of the same name written by the famous writer Komatsu Zuodai more than 20 years ago. The outline of the story is that several coastal geologists with keen minds and a sense of justice have discovered the signs that the Japanese archipelago is about to sink. When the news came out, the whole country was in an uproar. Some people questioned it and some people laughed at it. But more and more signs relentlessly proved their inference, and the Prime Minister of the Cabinet had to announce to the people all over the country that Japan was in a state of panic and chaos. In successive earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, people have moved their property and tried their best to flee abroad. The cabinet's plan to export immigrants to all parts of the world has aroused strong repercussions and different attitudes and countermeasures from all countries in the world. The novel ends with the Japanese archipelago finally sinking in the boundless waves.

In our opinion, this film aimed at awakening or consolidating the Japanese people's anxiety and early warning awareness is too alarmist. After more than half a century of peace and prosperity, can Japanese people accept such a movie? Won't the government intervene? The answer is yes. Anyone who has been to Japanese bookstores can find that such books abound, such as Japan Crisis, Japan Facing Challenges, Japanese Tragedy, Japan is about to collapse, and where is Japan going. As a Japanese newspaper explained this phenomenon, it accurately captured the sensitive nerves of the Japanese. Japan is an island country, surrounded by oceans, and the country is like a small boat, which may capsize at any time. Coupled with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes, lack of resources and high population density, there is always a sense of insecurity, which naturally breeds the deep-rooted sense of urgency and early warning of the Japanese nation, which is rare in the world. They always expect everything and consider the worst. Every once in a while, they will stimulate the public's consciousness by shouting "Wolf is coming". Japan's downfall is the product of this background.

The anxiety and early warning awareness of the Japanese people have benefited the Japanese nation a lot. Just give one example. There is such a plot in the novel The Sinking of Japan more than 20 years ago: In response to a reporter's question, the Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan said, "In any case, Japan's economy cannot be maintained without overseas ties. The whole Japanese society has reached the point where it is difficult to move without flying to the world, overseas and finding a new job to make some contributions to mankind. If you are trapped in domestic affairs again, you will only harm yourself. " (See the book Ambiguous Japanese) In the book, the author also puts forward the view that Japanese monopoly capital should penetrate into developing countries, move factories to invest abroad and compete with the United States and Europe. Comparing these words, it is self-evident to look at the phenomenon of "enterprise hollowing out" in Japan, think about Japanese enterprises and many world-famous brands all over the world, and think about their constant trade friction and competitive momentum with the United States and Europe!

I naturally think of such a question: China is also a place with frequent natural disasters, but why do people in China never write such books? I think this is also related to geographical factors. China is not in danger of being swallowed up by the sea, and its territory is vast. Although natural disasters such as earthquakes, storms, floods and droughts often occur, there is still a lot of room for manoeuvre. Compared with Japan, this is our advantage, but it also cultivates our shortcomings-blind arrogance, complacency, dislike of looking forward, keen worship of the past, lack of anxiety or early warning awareness, etc. This kind of psychology is still continuing. For example, if a writer in China now writes a similar script, which indicates that an important city in our country will be completely destroyed by earthquake, tsunami, volcano, desertification, sandstorm and flood in the near future, can this book be published? I'm afraid it's mysterious. At first, it will be ridiculed and condemned by a group of "smart" people with the old saying of "worrying about the sky", and then it will be banned from publishing because of "alarmism, panic and instability". As for making a film or TV series that can cause greater communication effect, it is even more unimaginable.

Early warning of major natural disasters is nothing more than revealing, amplifying or even exaggerating subtle disaster omens that are difficult for ordinary people to find, attracting public and media attention to possible disasters, prompting scholars and researchers to conduct professional investigation and evaluation, and proposing various disaster avoidance schemes to minimize the harm of disasters; After repeated discussion and demonstration, the government or the legislative department has issued necessary administrative measures or laws and regulations to ensure the implementation of various programs under the condition that the whole country has reached a certain consensus. Simply put, it is no different from the function of weather forecast. Although it is sometimes a false alarm, it will be even more terrible not to make a weather forecast. So don't blindly fear that the public can't stand the blow of major sudden warning. We must understand that this fragility of the public stems from their long-term strangeness to early warning. If the public can be given early warning education and drills regularly, they will be as calm as the Japanese public, not panicked.