How big was Japan’s ambition in history?

"Wolf ambition"

The first time to surrender, surrender for a thousand years

Japan is an island country, and its domestic development is easily restricted. It was also the main reason for Japan's outward expansion from beginning to end. In 663, the first war in history between China and Japan took place, and this war also had profound significance.

At that time, Silla, the younger brother of the Tang Dynasty, was attacked by Goguryeo and Baekje. The Tang Dynasty defeated Baekje, but Baekje's relics saw the Tang Dynasty army returning home, so they led the crowd to rebel again. , and united with the then Japanese state, and the famous Battle of Baijiangkou took place.

As a result, the Tang Dynasty defeated the Japanese country with almost all the efforts of the country. The Japanese country, which had just seen its revival, completely surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and humbly learned from it for hundreds of years. In the Central Plains culture, it is not difficult to see that the Japanese attitude is to fight if they can beat them, and if they cannot beat them, I will learn from you.

Not afraid of the Yuan Dynasty, but defeated by the Ming Dynasty

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Japan was very friendly to the Central Plains dynasty. It not only became a vassal but also paid tribute, but when During the Yuan Dynasty, he sent an envoy to Japan for the first time, but received no reply. So Kublai Khan sent an envoy to Japan for the second time. This time, he returned empty-handed. Where is the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty who has traveled all over Eurasia? After swallowing this breath, they launched a war against Japan. Unfortunately, they encountered a "kamikaze" (typhoon). In the end, the two attacks on Japan failed. Although the Yuan Dynasty failed to attack Japan, it made Japan suffer from the outside world for the first time. Invasion began to have a sense of crisis.

In fact, Japan did not recognize the status of the Yuan Dynasty in the Central Plains. However, when the Ming Dynasty was established by the Han people, Japan once again fell into war. At this time, many Japanese people took up the ranks of pirates, so there was A large number of Japanese pirates invaded the southeastern border areas of the Ming Dynasty. It was not until the appearance of the Qi Jiajun that this hidden danger was eliminated.

It was not until 1590 that Japan's Toyotomi Hideyoshi completed the general unification of the country, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi had a great ambition, which was to expand to Asia. This ambition first was to occupy North Korea, and then use North Korea as a platform to invade the Ming Dynasty. It also had the idea of ????moving the Japanese Emperor to Beijing, so Japan began to take action against North Korea and even drove the King of North Korea to the border of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the Ming Dynasty North Korea could no longer tolerate it, and Ming Shenzong decided to fight back. It took seven years to completely drive the Japanese out of North Korea.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of illness in Japan, and his subordinate Tokugawa Ieyasu took the opportunity to seize power, causing the country to fall into chaos; overseas, the Korean battlefield suffered repeated setbacks, the situation was over, and a large number of soldiers were unable to return home. Japan's ambition was once again crushed by the Ming Dynasty.

Forced to found a country, crazy battles

Entering the Edo period, Japan was relatively stable domestically. However, at the end of the shogunate, Japan was forced to found a country by European and American countries, but Japan But it brought Japan into an era of rapid development - the Meiji Era.

Japan entered the Meiji era, formed a new government and began to carry out reforms. Japan’s most famous Meiji Restoration reforms occurred at this time. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan focused on developing and strengthening its military, leading to its military state. With the popularity of socialist ideas and the limitation of Japan's own development, Japan once again set its sights overseas and formulated an external expansion plan. The first step was to seize Ryukyu; the second step was to seize North Korea, Taiwan and other places; the third step was to seize North Korea, Taiwan and other places. The first step was to occupy the Northeast and other places; the fourth step was to annex the Qing Dynasty.

Japan also implemented its own plan step by step, annexing the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1878; in 1894, it defeated the Qing Dynasty in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, seized Taiwan and other places, and relied on large amounts of indemnity to develop its military and economy; in 1904, it There was a war between Russia and it took a year and a half to defeat Russia and win the interests in the Northeast, thereby becoming a capitalist power. In 1910, it officially designated Korea as its colony. During World War I, the European powers were busy with the war and stole various benefits.

Japan is making itself bigger and stronger step by step, and its ambitions are also growing; in 1927, Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi's secret memorial to Emperor Showa recorded that Japan Ambition:

It can be seen from this that what Japan wanted was to dominate East Asia and Southeast Asia, so according to their plan, the invasion gradually began. The "September 18th" Incident in 1931, The Japanese began to invade the three eastern provinces unscrupulously; the "July 7th Incident" in 1937 kicked off the invasion of China and kicked off World War II in Asia in advance.

Japan began to envision a "New Order in Greater East Asia" in 1938 and proposed a "Greater East Asia Prosperity Sphere" in 1940. This time, Japan's ambitions were aimed at The whole world, according to Japan's plan of aggression: the first step: establishing the puppet Manchukuo in Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning; the second step: occupying all of China; the third step: occupying Southeast Asia and Australia; the fourth step: fighting Nazi Germany in India Join forces and go north to conquer the Soviet Union; Step 5: Attack the United States and dominate the world.

I didn’t expect Japan to lose completely this time. On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. Japan’s ambitions were blown to pieces by the atomic bomb.

Amend the Constitution and want to join the five permanent members

After World War II, Japan’s country became in ruins, but with the support of the United States, Japan’s economy also improved Despite its rapid development and becoming the world's economic power, Japan has never forgotten the losses it suffered during World War II. The first is Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. In the 1980s, some people proposed to amend Article 9, regardless of Both domestically and internationally it attaches great importance to it.

By the 21st century, the Japanese government’s desire to amend Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution has become increasingly strong. Especially when Shinzo Abe became Prime Minister, it vigorously promoted the amendment of Article 9 of the Constitution. , but the domestic people do not buy it very much. More than half of the people do not support the revision, and less than one-third support the revision, so it has not been implemented so far.

Behind Shinzo Abe’s desire to amend Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, there is actually an idea hidden in Japan, which is to take back the Southern Kuril Islands (called the Northern Kurile Islands in Japan). Island), it is not difficult to see why Japan has always been negotiating with Russia in recent years.

Of course, recovering the Southern Kuril Islands is only one of the goals. The larger goal is to expand Japan's military strength, thereby making Japan a military power in the world and competing for more permanent members of the United Nations. right to speak.

Japan has long wanted to join the permanent membership of the United Nations, and has formed a "four-nation alliance" with India, Brazil, and Germany to strive to become a permanent member. However, many countries that have been invaded by Japan have They believed that this would lead to the rise of "militarism" in Japan, so they were very opposed to it.

Every country actually has ambitions, but Japan has always engaged in foreign aggression and excessive militarism, which has caused great harm to people around the world. I hope Japan can Self-reflection to establish an image of a responsible big country.