si-mexico Chapter 110: Chicken Foot Basin Prime Minister Worships Ghosts
Chapter 110: Chicken Foot Basin Prime Minister Worships Ghosts
What followed was overwhelming condemnation. Wei Jixiang was used to it. If he was not condemned by the Virgin Mary of the West one day, it would be as if the sun had risen from the west.
Wei Jixiang’s attitude is that you can condemn what you want, and if you meet someone you don’t like, you will still deal with him. His main goal is to fight him if he doesn’t accept it. He is the flat-headed brother of the Pacific Ocean.
Wei Jixiang was flipping through the newspaper when he suddenly saw this piece of news: Prime Minister Koizumi of Jijiaoben said at a party leader discussion meeting that the issue of visiting the Yasukuni Shrine is Jijiaoben's national affair and has nothing to do with other countries, and emphasized that he will continue to visit the shrine.
Wei Jixiang remained silent. He was living a good life, why was he always looking for trouble?
The native religion of Jijiaoben is Shintoism, which is a polytheistic belief. All living things and ancestors can become gods to be worshipped. After the Meiji Restoration, in order to strengthen the imperial power and spiritually baptize and control the army, Jijiaoben established the Tokyo Shokonsha in August 1869 to commemorate the more than 8 anti-shogunate people who sacrificed their lives in the Boshin War to restore the emperor's power. Later, in 3500, Emperor Meiji personally named it "Yasukuni Shrine". "Yasukuni" comes from "Zuo Zhuan Xigong 1879" "I use Yasukuni", which means to make the country peaceful.
Later, the Yasukuni Shrine began to enshrine the soldiers, military dependents, civil servants, and civilians who died in Japan's foreign wars before the end of World War II in 1945. In the eyes of the Jijiaoben people, these people died for the emperor and the country. They were deified after killing themselves. They all received the same courtesy and memorial service. This also explains why so many Jijiaoben soldiers, whether officers or soldiers, would die. Because to some extent, the identity and status during life can be unequal, but after death, whether it is a prince or a commoner, they will be treated the same.
After the end of World War II, the United States carried out a systematic transformation of Jijiaoben, abolished the State Shinto, implemented the separation of religion and politics, and the Yasukuni Shrine was changed from being managed by the military to a religious corporation. The people enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine are all war criminals who invaded other countries in the eyes of neighboring countries, but in the eyes of the Jijiaoben people, these people are heroes who died for the country and are the patron saints of the country. The Yasukuni Shrine is the location of the Yamato Soul and the spiritual home of the Jijiaoben people. The nature of the Yasukuni Shrine is similar to the Arlington National Cemetery in the United States, but it has an extra layer of religious color. Therefore, in the eyes of Jijiaoben politicians, especially right-wing nationalist conservative politicians, worshiping the Yasukuni Shrine is a recognition and loyalty to the nation-state, which is a matter of course. So you will see that every August 8th, the anniversary of the end of the war, a large number of Jijiaoben congressmen will go to worship the Yasukuni Shrine.
As for the issue of Prime Minister Keitoba's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, there is a node here, which is 1978. In this year, the chief priest of the Yasukuni Shrine, Matsudaira Nagayoshi (the eldest son of the Imperial Household Minister during the defeat of the war, Matsudaira Keimin) offered sacrifices to the tablets of 15 Class A war criminals, including Tojo Hideki, at the Yasukuni Shrine. Before the Keitoba Cabinet, it was very common for the Prime Minister to visit the Yasukuni Shrine for official or private reasons, and the impact was small, but the impact of the visit after 1978 was very large. In 1985, the then Keitoba Prime Minister, Nakagune Yasuhiro, visited the Yasukuni Shrine for the first time as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, which can be said to have set a precedent. Although pro-China prime ministers including Fukuda Takeo, Suzuki Zenko, and Ohira Masayoshi had also visited the shrine before, they were all in a private capacity. Nakagune's visit had a very bad impact and attracted unanimous condemnation from neighboring countries. However, the fact is that any Keitoba Prime Minister who visited the shrine as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet had a long term of office. This is true for Yasuhiro Ne, Junichiro Koizumi, and Shinzo Abe. Why is this?
This is actually the result of the return of nationalism and national confidence after the economic boom in Jijiaoben. The overall right-wing conservative tendency of Jijiaoben society is very obvious. Because the Yasukuni Shrine has a distinct nationalist character, visiting the Yasukuni Shrine can cater to the political needs of the right wing and gain a lot of support. Since the economy of Jijiaoben has been stagnant since the 1996s, the prime minister has been changing like a revolving lantern, so if you want to stabilize your support rate, then visiting the shrine is undoubtedly the most direct and quickest way. In the words of former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (who visited the shrine in a private capacity in to commemorate his brother), "Everything is for the needs of the election."
Every year, high-level officials from Jijiaoben visit the Yasukuni Shrine, which draws protests from various Asian countries. But it is of no use. You protest, and we pay our respects. This is very similar to Wei Jixiang.
But the most disgusting thing about Chicken Foot Basin is that you visit your own shrine, but you say every year that you are going to visit the shrine, stirring up the painful nerves of Asian countries. You, Chicken Foot Basin, are just looking for trouble, showing off your presence and your political status.
You are basing your political needs on the painful memories of Asian countries, which is really inhumane.
August 8th, the anniversary of the end of the war, is coming soon, and Prime Minister Jijiaoben has started to show off his skills again. This will be very beneficial for his re-election. It seems that you, Jijiaoben, are used to rubbing salt into the wounds of your Asian neighbors every year.
Wei Jixiang looked at the newspaper and thought about what he should do. Don't you like to visit the Yasukuni Shrine? I will make the Yasukuni Shrine disappear and let you be like headless flies. Let's see what you can visit when the time comes.
Wei Jixiang is happy to think that the chicken foot basin has become a joke in the world. I told you to worship and sprinkle salt on it. I will chop off this tumor for you and see what you will worship in the future. As for whether the chicken foot basin will protest, it has nothing to do with me, Wei Jixiang. You can protest slowly.
Time passed day by day, and soon it was August 8, the day before the Victory over Japan Day on August 14. The climax of public opinion came. A large number of Asian countries frantically condemned Jijiaoben's behavior of worshiping at the Yasukuni Shrine tomorrow. However, Jijiaoben continued to do its own thing, ignoring the outside protests and slowly preparing for tomorrow's worship activities.
In the eyes of the politicians in Jijiaoben, the more strongly you condemn, the more benefits they will get. Of course, they are also afraid that someone will cause trouble, so they sent a large number of military police to surround the Yasukuni Shrine the day before the worship and prohibited anyone from entering, so that the worship activities can be carried out peacefully tomorrow, August 8th.
Wei Jixiang was also ready to take action. He had his home brain lock onto the location of the Yasukuni Shrine early on and had prepared a palladium bomb to make the Yasukuni Shrine disappear. "If you want to worship, you have to worship our Longguo anti-Japanese heroes," Wei Jixiang smiled coldly as he looked at the monument made of alien materials that he had prepared.