When did the Japanese archipelago begin to be inhabited?

Japan is a long and narrow island country, with an area similar to that of China. On this island country, earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis and volcanoes frequently erupt, destroying the Japanese living here again and again. Japan has more than 1000 small earthquakes a year, 10 moderate earthquakes, and a major earthquake once every 50 years. This is a hell on earth, like an iron box full of demons. So Japan is a suicide country, which makes their souls full of life and death entanglements. On the one hand, they fought tenaciously with amazing perseverance, on the other hand, they feared fate with amazing calmness.

"3.11"9 earthquake, the secondary tsunami and nuclear radiation disaster recorded in Japanese historical materials, let the whole world see that the Japanese are in a calm and orderly situation. While the Chinese are grabbing salt and the Americans and Europeans are grabbing iodine, the Japanese in the Nuclear Fear Center are still calmly waiting for the slow rescue, calmly queuing up to buy daily necessities, and calmly bearing the fault of Tokyo Electric Power Company. Why can the Japanese be so calm in the face of catastrophe? As a result, there has also been an upsurge in exploring the extraordinary performance of the Japanese around the world: why can the Japanese do this?

One,

When I was an interpreter, I received some Japanese delegations to China. When some members of the delegation check into the hotel, they should first check the escape map behind the room door, and some even go to the stairs to check it in person. The Japanese have a strong sense of disaster. Even if they leave this troubled island, their insecurity is still with them.

However, what outsiders can't understand is that since "disaster" has become a national heart disease, people should try to avoid talking nonsense and making noise, but this is not the case in Japan. They seem to be particularly fond of "creating terror". Through literature, movies, comics and other artistic means, they show all kinds of disasters to the people, making people live in fear, as if they were deliberately torturing themselves mentally.

For example, Komatsu Satoshi, the author of Japan's most famous disaster novel "The Sinking of Japan", used rigorous scientific theories and data for nine years to vividly fabricate a Japanese catastrophe: a large number of mud balls appeared in the trench of Japan, and the Great Kanto Earthquake killed more than 2 million people. Dr. Tansuo, a geologist, predicts that the Japanese archipelago will sink into the ground within two years. At the last moment, a huge tsunami washed into the land, and the Japanese archipelago sank, leaving a lingering sound. "Where is the future?" "How can the new life continue?" This novel, which terrified the Japanese to the extreme, was published in 1973, setting a record of 4 million copies in the first and second episodes, becoming the best seller in Japan after the war and winning many awards. In the same year, the film of the same name adapted from the novel also won a rich box office, with a cumulative audience of 8.8 million. Thirty-three years later, in 2006, Sasaki Komatsu released The Sinking of Japan Part II, which vividly described the tragic fate of the Japanese after "losing their homeland". A week after the release of the second film "The Sinking of Japan", the remake of the film "The Sinking of Japan" was released immediately. This blockbuster, which claims to have used the most people and money in the history of Japanese movies, has set a more spectacular box office of 7 billion yen in Japan than the 4 billion yen in 1973.

In addition, there are works devoted to rendering earthquakes in Japan, such as Earthquake Islands by Shi Heiyao and M8 by Tetsuo Takashima. Tetsuo Takashima is a researcher at the Japan Institute of Atomic Energy. In M8, this professional wrote the latest earthquake research results and data into the novel, which not only created earthquake horror, but also taught people earthquake prevention knowledge, so this book is called a rare earthquake knowledge novel. Tetsuo Takashima later wrote Tsunami, predicting that Japan would suffer the biggest tsunami in history. It seems that the tsunami after the earthquake was unfortunately right. In addition, there are many works that exaggerate the disasters and crises in Japan, such as Dead Japan, Infected Island, Thirty Years of Heisei, Seal of Japan and so on. Most of these disaster works are spread as cartoons, which let teenagers plant sad seeds in their hearts early.

Perhaps in the face of this troubled island, the Japanese understood a philosophical truth, and the horror of the last-day plot was pushed to the highest extreme by imagination. Once the catastrophe really comes to the world, people's endurance is already very strong, and their nerves are extremely strong, so it will not be surprising to deal with difficulties. The Japanese, though hiding the lingering heaviness in their hearts, have been frightened to grow up early and become a unique nature in the face of disasters.

When the Fukushima nuclear crisis swept through panic, China people snapped up salt and Americans snapped up iodine. However, the Japanese people who are really threatened by nuclear radiation still queue up quietly for shopping and refueling, and rarely panic. Most of the Japanese panic is buried in their hearts, even if they complain or cry, they are mostly in houses or quilts that outsiders can't see. Therefore, it is reported that the incidence of depression in Japan is higher than that in other countries after the earthquake.

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In Japanese memory, the most terrible earthquake was the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. The Great Kanto Earthquake occurred in 1 September, 9231Japan 1 1: 58. At that time, people were preparing for lunch when an earthquake of magnitude 8 suddenly happened. Although most people ran out, many wooden houses were lit by collapsed stoves, and Tokyo and Yokohama were caught in flames. The number of dead and missing people finally reached 18.

At that time, about 40,000 people in Tokyo fled to the empty space of the garment factory to take refuge. Later, the square along the wind was surrounded by fire, and the asylum seekers had nowhere to escape, and more than 38,000 people were burned alive. In a refuge park in Yokohama, 24,000 people who escaped from residential fires were surrounded by the ensuing fires and burned to death. Even hundreds of people who jumped into the park lake just put their heads out of the water and did not escape the bad luck of being scalded to death by the hot water in the lake; Thousands of victims in Yokohama fled to the seaside and jumped into the sea to catch some floating objects. But I didn't expect that a few hours later, the oil depot near the beach exploded, and more than 65,438+10,000 tons of oil was injected into Yokohama Bay. The fire ignited the oil on the water surface, and Yokohama Bay became a sea of fire. More than 3000 people who took refuge in seawater were killed by the fire. In addition, some people who hid in beaches, docks and ports to avoid the fire were not killed by the fire, but were swept away by the tsunami caused by the earthquake.

The earthquake really turned Tokyo, Yokohama and other Kanto counties into a hell on earth. 85% houses in Tokyo were destroyed, and 96% houses in Yokohama were razed to the ground. What is even more tragic is the ensuing massacre. After the earthquake, rumors began to spread in the anxious air, saying that North Koreans who were usually bullied would take the opportunity to retaliate. They wanted to "set fire", "poison", "rob" and "riot", so the Japanese were afraid of ghosts and quickly organized youth leagues, township military associations and civic groups, killing about 6,000 North Koreans and hundreds of South Koreans.

1923 The Great Kanto Earthquake was a great shock to the Japanese people. More than 200 years of Edo architectural culture was destroyed and three members of the royal family were killed. Emperor Taishi, who suffered from mental illness before the earthquake, could not be in power. After Prince Hirohito's regency, he had to deal with the weakness of the government and social chaos in addition to the great blow of the earthquake.

At that time, it coincided with the unprecedented period of "Dazheng Democracy" in Japan and the social upheaval. Liberalism, socialism, anarchism, women's liberation movement and national participation in politics are all surging, and the democratic atmosphere is extremely strong, which is called "the heyday of the left wing" After the earthquake, the Tokyo Gendarmerie took the opportunity to kill the famous anarchist Daguang and his seven-year-old nephew, trying to reverse the "left-leaning tide".

The Great Kanto Earthquake made Japan's ambivalence between "sense of superiority" and "sense of hardship" more intense. It is "unwilling to be an island country" and unwilling to succumb to the fate of being in a bad situation and suffering from frequent natural disasters, so the "mainland policy" was strongly awakened (during the Meiji period, the Japanese government established the "mainland policy" with North Korea and China as the main expansion targets). At this time, Japan was eager to push the political, military, economic and ideological foundation laid by Meiji Restoration to mainland countries by force to satisfy its desire and sense of security.

Less than four years after the earthquake, that is,1June, 927, the famous Tanaka Memorial Hall came out of the Oriental Conference held in Tokyo. This "aggression plan" was presented to Hirohito by then Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka on the grounds that "this is the legacy of Emperor Meiji". The article said, "If you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China, China and Manchuria. Later, after the accidental exposure of this memorial hall, the world public opinion was in an uproar, and a massive protest March was held in China.

Then, Japan's conquest of the mainland did not stop. Not only launched the war of aggression against China, but also formulated a specific immigration plan: within 20 years from 1937, there will be immigrants from Japan 1 10,000 households with a total population of 5 million, and the number of immigrants is equivalent to nearly one-eighth of the total population of Japan at that time. In fact, after the Russo-Japanese War in Northeast China 1905, Japan, the victorious country, began to brew immigrants. 19 15 The "Aichuan Village" experiment was established in Dalian, which started the Japanese emigration to the northeast of China. By 1945, when Japan surrendered, the total number of "planting groups" sent by Japan to the northeast of China reached 318,000.

The predicament of geographical environment, the invasion of natural disasters and the reality of lack of resources are all distorting the Japanese spirit, allowing expansionism and aggression to breed in Japan's national inferiority. The Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and the Second World War all exposed the inferiority of the Japanese nation. After World War II, the ghost of Japanese militarism has been wandering, and now the ghost's swimming is more and more active. Once the ghost of militarism inspires Japan's national inferiority, the world may not escape the storm of war, and Japan is doomed to encounter a devastating blow again in the world war to safeguard justice.

At the end of World War II, Japan was beaten back to the "island country" and the devil was put in an iron box. At the same time, it also declared that Japan's "continental policy" of seeking expansion ended in failure. His soul was imprisoned in a tiny place, and the pain he suffered has been suppressed and refused to be known by outsiders. Japanese people regard cherry blossoms with short flowering period as their favorite, and especially appreciate the brilliance of that moment, which actually implies the uneasiness of their souls on the other hand.

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The most terrible thing about this earthquake is not the earthquake or the tsunami, but the nuclear leakage crisis still hanging over our heads. More than half a month after the incident, the Japanese government's crisis management was widely questioned. The New York Times accused the Japanese government of "managing the crisis", not "managing the crisis". The Japanese media, which has repeatedly restrained, has also begun to be dissatisfied with the government's approach: Asahi Shimbun published "the government's crisis management is frightening" on the front page and criticized the government for its indecision; The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that residents who did not take refuge in time were at a loss at first because people believed the government's statement about the safety of nuclear power plants.

It should be noted that "nuclear" is an unusual horror for the Japanese. Only Japanese people in the world have been attacked by atomic bombs and know the power of nuclear radiation. The atomic bombs dropped by the US military in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were called "original explosions" by the Japanese, and the shadow has not been completely erased from the Japanese mind. The original explosive literature has been popular for decades, and Masuji Ibuse's novel Black Rain and Kensaburo Oe's Hiroshima Essay are regarded as the "peak works" of the original explosive literature. The explosion and leakage of Fukushima nuclear power plant is called "original explosion" in Japan from the government to the people, which is exactly the same as the atomic bomb attack that year. How can this not make the Japanese tremble! Although some people in Japan took to the streets to hold anti-nuclear demonstrations and demanded that Naoto Kan's government step down, Japanese society as a whole remained incredibly calm.

Japan is not only an island country with frequent disasters, but also a country with energy shortage. Japan with developed economy has a great demand for energy and minerals. This poor island has to rely on dozens of large and small nuclear power plants to provide electricity for national life and enterprise production. They are not unaware of the risk of building nuclear facilities in this land where earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes are active, but the island dilemma has made them fall into a sad choice.

Japanese people have high spirits. They always think that the Yamato nationality is an excellent variety and should play an important role on the earth. However, God is unfair to them, making them live in a bad place with excellent race. Their souls have been living in an unyielding struggle, but they can't try their best to change their destiny, so they have to endure it. "Ninja" has become a unique species in Japan.

The question now is, will Japan recover as quickly as it did after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake? Some analysts pointed out that it is probably difficult. First, Japan's population is aging seriously and its labor force lacks vitality. Secondly, Japan's best stage of development has passed, and it has been in a state of stagnation and depression for nearly two decades; Third, nuclear power plants have dealt a great blow to Japan, which will cause shackles to Japan's future energy utilization. However, the process of reconstruction will promote the Japanese economy. Of course, we can't rule out the toughness and unyielding in the Japanese bones. .

The Japanese have a heavy tragedy complex, and this nation advocates taking sadness as beauty. Many classic Japanese literature and dramas end in tragedy, such as the classic Loyalist Tibet and the modern Paradise Lost, all of which have extreme tragic tails. This kind of thinking that life is short and fragile, and things are unpredictable, always runs through the Japanese understanding of life. The present situation of dry mountains and rivers in Japan and the prevalence of imbalance and asymmetry all show this Yamato nation. Although they have historical ties with China in race and culture, they are different from the Chinese nation in spirit because their living environment is different from that of China.

After World War II, although Japan was beaten back to the "island country" and the devils were put in the iron box, it also declared that Japan's "continental policy" of seeking expansion ended in failure. His soul was imprisoned in a tiny place, and the pain he suffered has been suppressed and refused to be known by outsiders. But the devil's nature will not change, and one day it will find a new place to live. It is unknown where the Japanese soul will eventually belong. Will be fiercer, fiercer and more vicious than before