Why doesn't Japan repent? (2) Solving

In Japan, most people, from Class A war criminals to ordinary soldiers, always think they are innocent. Also a heinous war criminal, Hans Frank of Germany said before the execution in Nuremberg: "A thousand years are easy to pass, but the crime of Germany is hard to disappear." However, Japanese tojo hideki shouted before the execution: "Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" Why is there such a fundamental difference? Benedict, an American scholar, talked about the difference between guilt culture and shame culture in Chrysanthemum and Knife. Guilt culture relies on inner reflection on guilt to do good, while shame culture relies on external coercion to do good. In the culture represented by Japan, where shame is the main coercive force, people are only annoyed by criminal behavior. Moreover, as long as bad behavior is not exposed to society, there is no need to be uneasy. They think that confession and repentance can only be self-defeating. In the culture of shame, there is no habit of repentance, even to God. They have a ceremony to pray for happiness, but there is no ceremony to pray for redemption. For Germany, the most important thing is to repent before God and the world, so as to be reborn; For Japan, the most important thing is not to gain tolerance through repentance, but to cover up sins so as not to lose face in front of the world. In the eyes of the German public, the most prominent event in World War II was the Nazi massacre of Jews, not the Allied bombing of Berlin. In the eyes of the Japanese, the most important events were the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not the Nanjing Massacre and the Chongqing Bombing. Also committed serious war crimes, Germans not only reflect on themselves, but also reflect on human nature. Under the background of Christian culture, Europeans and Americans not only deeply repent, but also have doubts and responsibilities for human nature. But the Japanese have no remorse or ethical responsibility. Japan's science and technology is one of the best in the world, but it is still empty and thin in spirit. It is almost impossible for the Japanese to admit their mistakes. They are best at putting the blame on others. Why do Japanese people like to use the "soul-shifting method" so much? On the one hand, they attach great importance to face. Benedict argued in Chrysanthemum and Knife: "Japanese people are very concerned about what others think of their actions, but when others know nothing about their misdeeds, they will be conquered by evil. "So, they would rather use a hundred mistakes to cover up one mistake than sincerely admit and correct it. On the other hand, the Japanese worship power and do whatever it takes to get it. Fukuzawa Yukichi, a thinker in the Meiji period, pointed out: "Throughout history, Japanese samurai have always followed the rules and regulations among themselves, lived in a powerful environment, and were never ashamed of submitting to others, which is significantly different from westerners' cherishing their status, respecting their identity and safeguarding their rights." This unique "shame culture" combined with Bushido spirit has pushed "no repentance" to the extreme. Nitobe Inazo, a Japanese scholar, said in his book Bushido: "Bushido, like its symbol cherry blossoms, is an inherent flower on Japanese soil. ..... As the son of feudal system, the glory of Bushido is still alive after the death of its birth mother system, and still shines on our moral road. "Bushido spirit is one of the internal motivations for Japanese warlords to flagrantly launch the Great East Asian War. For hundreds of years, Japan's military rule has been sublimated to a lofty political and moral position through the samurai class, and it has completely integrated into the mainstream values of the country. The spirit of Japanese Bushido and the formation of Japanese samurai class are both external and internal. Japanese samurai regard killing as friendship, and they can cut off the head and cut off the belly of the suicide person; Japanese samurai regard killing as power, and they can kill each other without punishment when humiliated; Japanese samurai also regard killing as a profession, and they must kill after drawing their swords and recovering their scabbard. In Japan, only fighting to the end or committing suicide can preserve reputation. If he is caught, he will lose his reputation. Even if he is alive, he is a "dead man", worse than death. A veteran of the invasion of China once said: "Japanese Bushido is extremely lofty, extremely great and incredible. In the authentic cold light emitted by the famous Bushido sword, there is an unfathomable power and mystery that even the great powers are afraid of. "When the US troops captured Saipan, the whole army wiped out more than 40,000 Japanese troops, and there were 1 10,000 civilians on the island. The Japanese forced them to commit suicide. The mother killed the baby and committed suicide, while the old people killed each other or committed suicide. In Asahi Shimbun's essay on "World War II in My Memory", a reader named Masao Kumai wrote an article "Why Don't We Oppose War". The article pointed out: "Someone asked: Why don't you oppose war? I think it's because ordinary people don't doubt national policies. Citizens are taught not to doubt the decisions made by' above'. "First of all, the government is not allowed to provide correct information to its citizens. According to laws and regulations such as public security, the news that is unfavorable to the army and the government is kept confidential, and then it is changed into the news that is beneficial to the army and the government. Secondly, citizens cannot object to the emperor's orders. The emperor is a god and transcends the existence of the country. The emperor said that the life of an official is my life. For ordinary people, the orders of the army are the orders of the emperor, so we can't oppose the war until the emperor orders a truce. Third, the sense of national superiority was incited. War leaders must incite people before the war. Hitler's Germany incited the German people to be excellent citizens, and Japan incited itself to be the first god country in the world with the emperor unified forever. Fourth, leaders casually emphasize the crisis of the country. The story of the national crisis keeps spreading, and the incited people believe it, fall into narrow nationalism, and become a force to promote the war, self-righteous. Japan's unique historical and cultural tradition is the fertile ground for this set of robber logic and war philosophy. In the book Hidden Terror: Japanese Crimes during World War II, Japanese scholar Yuki Tanaka believes that atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre were caused by a phenomenon called "oppression transfer". When the Japanese army first became an army, it contained a high degree of cruelty and danger.