Chapter 61: Yasukuni Shrine, Reflections on History
Chen Xihao and Ryoko Hashimoto arrived at the airport at 11 o'clock, and Kataoka's plane arrived in Tokyo at 11:05.
Kataoka Tong thought that the company would send a car to pick him up, but he didn't expect that the person who came to pick him up was Ryoko who had spoken to him on the phone last night, and he didn't expect Master Chen to appear together, which made him very frightened, and he quickly thanked him respectfully after seeing Chen Xihao.
Ryoko Hashimoto was instructed by Chen Xihao and bluntly informed Kataoka that the reason why he was in a hurry to return to Tokyo this time was to talk to him about possible changes in his position. However, Ryoko Hashimoto concealed the fact that Chen Xihao took action to kill the general manager Kishimoto Kinzo.
Kataoka was confused, and at this moment, the call from the head office hit Kataoka's mobile phone.
After only listening to a few words, Kataoka's face changed greatly, because the human resources department of the head office told Kataoka to hurry up and return to Tokyo, last night the general manager of the branch, Kishimoto Kinzo, died in a drunk driving accident, and now the head office is about to evaluate three people, including Kataoka, and choose one of them to take over Kishimoto's position as soon as possible.
The head office apparently thought that Kataoka was still in the Mt. Fuji area in Shizuoka Prefecture, and the person who called from the head office only learned about Kishimoto's death in a car accident today. But Ryoko was with Master Chen last night, and Ryoko called him to rush back to Tokyo this morning, and the things involved in it were extremely scary to think about it, and Kataoka Tong instantly felt cold sweat all over his body.
"Mr. Kataoka, don't be nervous, the matter of Kishimoto's recent three is indeed related to me. But sooner or later, he's going to have an accident, because he's involved in some gang things. In addition, I heard Ryoko say yesterday that if Kishimoto has an accident, you are the most likely person to take his place, we are all friends, and I will be happy to help you get this position, I wonder if you are ready for this? ”
Chen Xihao saw Kataoka's uneasy expression, and vaguely guessed his thoughts, so he simply picked out this matter.
At this moment, Kataoka's inner excitement instantly suppressed the fear of emotion, among the three competitors, one is the manager of the head office, and his connections are also quite strong, Kataoka Tong has no confidence in competing for the position of general manager of the branch, but he couldn't imagine that Chen Xihao still has the ability to influence the decision-making of the head office.
"Master Chen, you, do you really have a way?"
Kirito Kataoka licked her somewhat dry lips and asked eagerly.
Chen Xihao smiled slightly, took out a newly bought mobile phone, and dialed a call in front of Kataoka Tong.
"Hello? Who are you? Who are you looking for? ”
An extremely arrogant and unceremonious man's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"It's ...... me"
Chen Xihao's eyes were instantly cold, and he said such a sentence lightly.
"Ahh My lord, is that you? I'm sorry, I beg your pardon, because this number of yours is very unfamiliar, so I just had a bit of a gaffe, please ......"
The voice on the other end of the phone immediately became extremely respectful and apologized repeatedly.
"Immediately go and do something, notify Kensuke Nagata, and let him do whatever it takes to help Mr. Kirito Kataoka of the Fujita Performing Arts branch get the position of general manager of the branch this time."
"Okay, I got it! My lord, please rest assured, this little thing, Takemoto will take care of you, it will be done! ”
"Hmm!"
Chen Xihao hung up the phone, looked at the stunned Kataoka Tong beside him, and smiled slightly, "Okay, Mr. Kataoka, take a good rest after you go back today, and wait for good news at home." ”
"Thank you, thank you so much, Master Chen!"
Kataoka came back to his senses at this time, although he couldn't understand how Chen Xihao knew Kensuke Nagata of the head office, but he didn't forget to thank Chen Xihao repeatedly.
After dropping Kataoka off the floor of his house, Ryoko Hashimoto drove Chen Xihao to their second destination of the day, Sensoji Temple.
"Master Chen, is this okay? Don't you need to put some more pressure on Kataoka? ”
Ryoko Hashimoto still has some doubts about what Chen Xihao did today, helping Kataoka get the position of general manager of Fujita Performing Arts is equivalent to giving him a company with hundreds of millions of monthly turnover, and he did not make any of his own requirements, which made Ryoko Hashimoto very incomprehensible.
"It's not time yet, when there is a need, I will talk to Kataoka, and I don't think he will refuse at that time, because he is a smart person."
Chen Xihao clasped his hands behind his head, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said softly.
Ryoko Hashimoto nodded as if she didn't understand, but since Chen Xihao didn't want to say it explicitly, she was also very sensible and didn't open her mouth to continue to ask, so she began to concentrate on being a driver.
20 minutes later, the two of them came to Sensoji Temple, just like yesterday, Chen Xihao asked Ryoko Hashimoto to wait for him in the car, he himself entered Sensoji Temple, and began to try to trigger the task of "Tokyo Shrine" to unlock, but unfortunately, after wandering around for more than an hour, it was still in vain.
After returning to the car, the two set off for the last of the seven most famous shrines in Tokyo, the Yasukuni Shrine. If this shrine still can't trigger the unlock quest of "Tokyo Shrine", then Chen Xihao can only temporarily return to Kamakura City, and when he has time in the future, he will go and turn around the remaining 100 or so small and medium-sized shrines one by one.
On the way, Chen Xihao began to browse the historical materials of the Yasukuni Shrine, although he is not an angry youth, but after all, he is a Chinese in his bones, and he has no good feelings about this shrine that enshrines Class-A war criminals, but that's all, after all, in Chen Xihao's view, that period of history is too far away.
The predecessor of the Yasukuni Shrine was the Tokyo Spiritualist Shrine, which was created in 1869 by order of Emperor Meiji to commemorate the soldiers who died in the Boshin War to restore the emperor's power. In 1879, the Tokyo Spiritualist Society was renamed Yasukuni Shrine, and since then it has been exclusively managed by the Japanese military.
Yasukuni Shrine is located at the Kudanbei Shrine in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, and enshrines the soldiers and military families who died in the war for Japan since the Meiji Restoration, such as the soldiers who died during the Russo-Japanese War at the end of the 19th century, and the Japanese soldiers who died during the Sino-Japanese War. Of course, the vast majority were Japanese officers and soldiers killed in the Japanese War of Aggression against China (1931-1945) and the Pacific War (1941-1945) and 30,000 Japanese soldiers such as the Taiwan Takasago Volunteers.
During Japan's war of aggression against China and the Pacific War, Japanese soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and a total of 2133915 Japanese soldiers died on the frontline battlefields, and the families of more than 2 million Japanese soldiers who died in the war later formed the "Japanese Bereaved Families Association." This organization was originally aimed at mutual assistance and mutual assistance for the war bereaved families, and now it has developed into a political and social organization dedicated to supporting the Yasukuni Shrine, with more than 800,000 members and more than 10,000 branches throughout Japan. The government needs to borrow the voting power of the Japanese bereaved families' associations, and visiting the Yasukuni Shrine can obtain the bereaved families' votes.
Since then, paying respects at the Yasukuni Shrine has become a "personal show" for some Japanese politicians to win over voters and display their right-wing ideas. This is the reason why successive Japanese politicians need to pay respects at the Yasukuni Shrine.
Boring politics, Chen Xihao gave such a summary after reading the introduction of the "Yasukuni Shrine" in Zhihai.
Of course, he will not feel more at this moment, because Chen Xihao was born in the future, and it is too far away from the war that brought the Chinese people painful skin to the skin back then, so far away that these young people have forgotten the unforgettable hatred of their home and country.
Until, when he came to the torii gate of the Yasukuni Shrine, he saw the bustling crowd, and the number of people who visited here far exceeded the other six shrines he had visited before.
Not only are there a large number of people, but there are also various political groups that are holding banners and reading their political manifestos, and many people are setting up stalls and hanging charts, holding leaflets and shouting and stuffing them to every passer-by.
Chen Xihao casually took a few leaflets, only looked at them twice and frowned, one of the leaflets is about the Diaoyu Islands, which lists all kinds of "so-called" evidence to prove that the Diaoyu Islands belong to Japan, such as September 8, 1951, the United States and other countries signed the "San Francisco Peace Treaty" with Japan, when the U.S. military took over the Ryukyu Islands, the Diaoyu Islands and their affiliated islands were arbitrarily included in the Ryukyu Islands, all under the jurisdiction of the United States Civil Government, in 1972, As a result, Japan recently had a dispute between China and Taiwan over the ownership of the Diaoyu Islands, and the United States acted as a throw-off uncle and ignored it, but Japan was anxious like the third grandson, and some politicians even called on the people to raise funds to buy the Diaoyu Islands from the Americans, and then exercise their national sovereignty to send troops to the Diaoyu Islands to garrison them.
In the future geographical map known to Chen Xihao, most of the islands in the South China Sea, including Taiwan, and even the Ryukyu Islands, except for Okinawa, belong to China's coastal islands.
Shaking his head slightly, Chen Xihao looked at another leaflet, the content of this leaflet was even more excessive, it turned out to be an indictment claiming that the Tokyo trial was invalid, and the entire content of the leaflet claimed that Japan was innocent, and demanded that the seven Class-A war criminals in the Tokyo trial, including Hideki Tojo, Ishine Matsui, and Kenji Dohihara, be overturned, and overturn the results of the Tokyo trial.
This is a bit excessive, Chen Xihao's heart was slightly on fire, and he didn't want to read the next few leaflets, so he rubbed his right hand hard, and a few leaflets turned into pieces.
At this time, an old man standing under the torii of the Yasukuni Shrine for a long time attracted Chen Xihao's attention, and 15 minutes had passed from Chen Xihao's getting off the bus to the time he finished reading the leaflet, and the old man who bowed his head and quietly visited the torii did not move at all.
"Sir, which god are you worshipping when you are so pious?" Chen Xihao stepped forward and asked softly.
Through conversation, Chen Xihao learned that the old man's father died in the war on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The old man didn't know when his father died, and where did he die? No bones, no graves. Because the list of war dead at the Yasukuni Shrine has his father's name. He believed that his father's soul was still here.
Chen Xihao was silent, how many people in this bustling crowd were ordinary people who came here with the same thoughts of their relatives who died in the war like this old man? It's a pity that these more than 8 million ordinary people have been used as a tool for speculation and brainwashing by politicians as a shrine.