Recently, former Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru mentioned Japan's attack on the United States during World War II on a TV program, and linked it to Japan's current threats against China. He expressed concern: back then, everyone knew they couldn't beat the US, but they still went to war. Does today's Japan have the same problem?
"Everyone knew that Japan could not defeat the United States during World War II. The national strength was ten times less, and it was a total war that required all-out effort. But 'knowing you can't win, why start the war' is something we must carefully analyze," said Ishiba Shigeru.
He stated, "At the time, whoever had a louder voice and looked braver, could dominate."
Ishiba Shigeru quoted former Class A war criminal Tojo Hideki's words such as "You won't know the result unless you try" and "War is about luck," saying, "Back then, no one blamed Tojo, but instead said people sometimes need the 'courage of cutting off the bridge'."
Regarding this, Ishiba Shigeru said, "This 'cutting off the bridge' basically means going to die," and no one refuted the idea that "this kind of courage is necessary," isn't that scary?
"In his speech marking the 70th anniversary of Japan's defeat, Abe Shinzo briefly stated that 'the Japanese government failed to prevent Japan from rushing into the Pacific War.' Why did it fail to prevent it? Is Japan really okay now? This is the responsibility of today's politicians, at least the prime minister, to verify," he said.
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Japanese current Prime Minister Kishida Fumio recently made explicit provocative remarks on Taiwan in a parliamentary session, brazenly interfering in China's internal affairs and refusing to retract his erroneous statements. Former Prime Ministers鸠山由纪夫 (Hosono Yukio),野田佳彦 (Noda Yoshihiko), and石破茂 (Ishiba Shigeru) have successively publicly criticized Kishida Fumio's erroneous statements.
On the 27th, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Guo Jia Kun, stated that the Taiwan issue is China's internal affair, and no external force should interfere. Kishida Fumio's erroneous statements seriously violated the spirit of the four political documents between China and Japan, undermined the political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations, and caused strong public anger among the Chinese people.
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