(Tokyo Prefecture has now 13 million residents, accounting for 10% of the Japan's population, though its area accounts for just 0.6% of the whole territory of Japan.)EXPOSITION ON WARS AROUND SHANGHAI IN 1930'S
Today, every Japanese thinks that the war with China in 1930's and 1940's was a big mistake, a big failure, a big mystery, or a big crime.
So, today's security partnership of Japan and the United States is based on this notion.
However, there is a context in anything, including the American War on Terror and the Chinese violent occupation of Tibet and Islamic regions.
Indeed, it is time to review incidents around Shanghai in 1930's, since if Japanese were so bad as the Chinese Communist Party claims, there could not be such an economic recovery after WWII in Japan and after 1970's in China due to huge aid and support from Japan.
SECTION I: CONCLUSION FOR GENERAL AUDIENCE
Through this March to April, I have reviewed the Japanese history with a focus on Shanghai in 1930's though Shanghai was then a state of quasi-colonization by the U.K., France, America, and the Empire of Japan.
Shanghai was extremely prosperous despite the Great Depression with economic and security contribution from the U.K., France, America, and the Empire of Japan.
But, the Chinese Government and armed factions started to occupy Shanghai by force.
Then 1932, Chinese troops launched a large-scale attack on Shanghai only to fail due to mighty defence by the Imperial Navy and Army dispatched from Japan over the East China Sea.
Again 1937, Chinese troops launched a larger-scale attack with 650,000 troops on Shanghai only to fail due to mighty defence by the Imperial Navy and Army mobilizing 250,000 troops from Japan over the East China Sea.
Though the Imperial Government was very reluctant to expand the war zone inside the Chinese Continent, Imperial generals on front thought it was time to eradicate the menace of the Chinese Military, though they had to address almost a million Chinese troops.
And behind the repeatedly invading Chinese troops into Shanghai, Imperial generals saw Nanjing, 280 km west of Shanghai, the then capital of China surrounded by long and mighty walls, where Chinese generals and soldiers fled looting villages on their way after the failure in invasion of Shanghai. The Imperial Army troops so swiftly chased them into Nanjing where many Chinese soldiers already exchanged their uniforms with civilian clothes as they knew that they were abandoned by their leaders and generals.
And further behind Nanjing, Imperial generals saw Chongqing, 2100 km west of Nanjing, where Chinese leaders and generals fled leaving soldiers and citizens in Nanjing in the middle of battles without instructions, support, and means to officially surrender to the Imperial Army. Imperial Army could not advance to Chongqing due to difficult terrains, so air-bombed Chongqing. While losing face and a half million troops, Chinese leaders started to shout, "It was the Imperial Army that first fired and invaded Shanghai," which Americans started to believe.
And further behind Chongqing, Imperial generals saw Washington D.C. and Pearl Harbor (6,430 km east of Tokyo), since the U.S. started to supply financial and military aid for China. Further, America stopped export of crude oil and iron to the Empire of Japan, requesting total withdrawal of the Imperial troops from mainland China.
Therefore, before fuel of the Imperial Navy depleted, the Empire of Japan had to make a decision on cease-fire with malicious Chinese troops or extending the honorable war to Pearl Harbor, the U.S.
Americans in Shanghai were protected by the Imperial troops through their sacrifices, twice from invading Chinese troops. But, now Americans believed the lie Chinese were diffusing in America so as to blame the Empire. It was a kind of inevitable decision that the Imperial generals, who dominated the Imperial Government in Tokyo then, accepted the challenge so irrational for them.
The attacks started by Chinese troops on Shanghai in 1932 and 1937 led to the Battle in Nanjing and the air campaign of Imperial air squadrons to Chongqing, and finally the Imperial air-craft carriers' attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, since the U.S. joined the Chinese Mafia who called themselves legitimate politicians and generals of China suffering civil wars for so long since the fall or the last days of the the Qing dynasty in 1911.
(The key to judgment of the war is that the Imperial Government, the National Diet, and political parties and businesses of the Empire in 1920's and 1930's had no official plan to occupy and colonize whole China through war; even Imperial troops stationed in Manchuria had no plan to launch war to the Chinese military so as to occupy and govern whole China, and its occupation of Beijing and North China was regarded as tentative but necessary for prevention of Chinese attacks. However, Imperial generals never refrained from aggressively responding to attacks from the Chinese side. In other word, nothing was systematic in this war on the Japanese side.)
SECTION II: APPENDIX
The Battle of Nanjing was fought only for 10 days. The 120,000 Imperial troops advanced quickly from Shanghai to Nanjing taking one month, fighting all the way.
Chinese troops were already half destroyed on the path from Shanghai to Nanjing, thus only 100,000 soldiers were engaged in fighting in Nanjing, resulting in 80,000 deaths (and 10,000 prisoners of war). This number means, however, almost uncountable casualties at the front, namely all the dead bodies lying as far as you could see in and around Nanjing, and more on the path from Shanghai.
1. Even today, it is said that 200,000 citizens or 1,000,000 citizens were killed being involved in the Battle of Nanjing. However, it is no wonder, since China mobilized 650,000 soldiers for the attack and invasion of Shanghai in 1937, which were completely destroyed through intense combats between Shanghai and Nanjing. And, it is plain to see that there was no reason for the Imperial troops to aimlessly kill Chinese citizens while they had to continue to fight another half a million Chinese troops before starting to govern whole China.
2. For Chinese leaders and generals to escape Nanjing and reach Chongqing, any great turmoil and mess in Nanjing were desired. They had to buy time. They must have left many soldiers in Nanjing, ordering them to carry out a guerrilla fighting. Though the great Nanjing Battle lasted only 10 days, Chinese leaders did not let citizens first escape the city with necessary arrangements.
3. First of all, Chinese leaders and generals had thought that they could easily drive out Imperial Naval ships and Imperial Marines from Shanghai and suppress all the Western soldiers stationed in the great port city. They had not taken into consideration a possibility that they would be defeated by the Imperial troops to be dispatched over the East China Sea, since Chinese leaders could use half a million troops and 200 fighter planes for this invasion of Shanghai. In short, the Imperial troops and air squadrons, equipped with enough cannons and advanced planes, were far stronger than Chiang Kaishek (Sho-Kaiseki in Japanese) and Mao Tse-tung (Mo-Takuto in Japanese) had thought before.
4. "When Nanking fell, the Nanking Safety Zone housed over 250,000 refugees" who were almost total residents then.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Committee_for_the_Nanking_Safety_Zone )
Most of these 250,000 Chinese citizens survived the Battle of Nanjing. However, if 5% of them were later involved in the guerrilla fight, the number of citizens wounded and killed would have been over 10,000, which is quite large for any witnesses, including Western ones.
As a reasonable conclusion, the Battle in Nanjing is thought to have caused 100,000 casualties on the Chinese side, regrettably, though 90% or more were of soldiers.
5. After WWII, it is said that the Communist Party led by Mao Tse-tung and the National Party led by Chiang Kaishek fought for hegemony over China, causing about one million deaths. This data and any other data about deaths of Chinese soldiers and citizens in any incident under the Communist regime are not objectively verified. Then how can you say how many citizens were killed in Nanjing in 1937, while 500,000 of 650,000 Chinese soldiers who had been initially mobilized disappeared or dispersed between Shanghai and Nanjing through one of the fiercest battles in the history?
SECTION III: Pearl Harbor in 1941
Shanghai, Nanjing, Chongqing, and Pearl Harbor were directly connected in the above context.
"Who helped, supported, and accepted the Chinese attack on Japanese in Shanghai in 1932 and 1937? It is America!" This is the final finding of the Imperial Government in 1941.
Every American older enough in December 1941 never forgot what he or she was doing when the news about the Pearl Harbor Attack first reached him or her.
But, few thought, "Japanese have finally come from Shanghai and Nanjing and through Chongqing to do justice!"
Indeed, America should have cooperated with the Empire of Japan in 1932 and 1937 to prevent Chinese attacks on Shanghai, since it was the true cause of the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941.
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Now, you know why I do not go to Shanghai.
I do not go to Nanjing, Chongqing, and Pearl Harbor.
It is because where one is one must show his respect to the God.
And, Jesus Christ said that even from a stone on the wayside a descendant of Abraham is created by the God.
You can be made a descendant of Abraham if you are a roadside stone. And a roadside stone never moves around so foolishly like the Imperial Army around Shanghai in 1937.
"Stay there around Shanghai. Face 10 times more Chinese attacks and invasions to repel them until Americans come (to rescue Rockefeller and other American residents in Shanghai)!!"
(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-senzen/herijunzailai.html
A Chinese song made in Shanghai in 1937.)
Rev 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
Rev 5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
Rev 5:3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
Rev 5:4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
Rev 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.