For the crimes of aggression, the emperor is responsible just like any Japanese. Those war criminals who were tried were also responsible, as were those who were not tried. But these people, including all ordinary Japanese people, are not the greatest responsibility.
To study the way of thinking of this nation, we have to study and think from their geographical environment, human history, and other perspectives. However, this may not necessarily lead to the final result.
In the end, we still need to abandon the superficial concept of good and evil, and abandon the grievances and hatreds to objectively analyze the clues left by history.
Just as we must firmly believe that the emperor is against war, Yamamoto is also against war against the United States, including those in the Tokyo Trial, who actually have many ideas against the expansion of war. But why exactly did these people end up on their own opposite side?
In fact, there are many similar situations, such as Wang Jingwei. These people seem helpless in the trend of history, but they are just carried away by the trend. And they happened to be at a specific point in time and in a specific position in history, so they eventually became sacrifices to history.
We should investigate what formed this anti-human historical trend, and this trend has kept a nation in an unhealthy ideology for a long time.
In fact, it is easy to say, that is their virtue. Their virtues, virtues praised by us, virtues recognized by them. The so-called loyalty, the so-called unity, the so-called persistence, the so-called industriousness, the so-called meticulousness, and so on. And so there comes a day when Japan begins to be selfish rather than united; lazy rather than industrious; ruthless rather than faithful; not shameless rather than sincere; only then will they truly begin to fundamentally When reflecting on historical crimes.
If such a nation, such a country, does not fundamentally change, if it does not fundamentally destroy all its beauty and hope, the world will be hopeless.
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