What kind of people are the Japanese?

A What kind of people are the Japanese?

The Japanese worship and flatter the strong and are vicious to the weak.

For China, always remember this sentence: China is strong, Japan is a concubine, China is weak, Japan is a thief!

The Japanese have a unique national character, and this complex character in the Pacific War between victory and defeat revealed, but also can be used as a specimen of our understanding of the Japanese way of thinking.

1, conservative xenophobia

Japanese islands since ancient times with the outside world lack of close contact and interaction, this geographic environment for survival of Japan, developed a self-centered mentality. Because the Japanese people have long been in a state of seclusion, lack of training in a large international environment, and even more lack of integration with other peoples and history of interaction, they show a strong suspicion of the outside world and outsiders and vigilance. Throughout their long history, the Japanese people have developed narrow-mindedness, paranoia and stubbornness, creating a conservative and xenophobic nature of the Japanese nation. The patriotism of the Japanese people is always combined with an irredeemable xenophobia, which is manifested in outright islandism.

2, the spirit of bushido

Traditional Japanese culture has advocated the fierce, mysterious side, which has been fully embodied in bushido. There is a Japanese proverb that "the number of cherry blossoms, the number of samurai", which shows that the samurai is generally respected in Japanese society. The spirit of the samurai has had a profound and far-reaching influence on the Japanese national character. Bushido strengthened the samurai class in terms of ethical relations, and at the same time, it had a unique and clear ideological character, which enabled the samurai to achieve a psychological balance between bloodshed and literature, sword and pen, while at the same time emphasizing loyalty, filial piety, faith and elegance. The elegant style did not make the samurai cowardly, but made it strengthen the nature of the killers, become more cruel and cold-blooded, and even for the test sword, sword practice and often kill passers-by for no reason. As the first of the four people of the samurai class enjoys many privileges, their thoughts and behavioral patterns become a model for the whole nation and be revered and respected, thus the Japanese national character has been marked by a deep sense of courage and martial arts.

3, townspeople roots

Traditional Japanese national behavioral pattern of another significant performance is the townspeople roots. The townspeople were the collective name for urban merchants and craftsmen in the Edo period. Like bushido, the townspeople's morality required "loyalty" and "filial piety". The townspeople were characterized by their peacefulness, adherence to social hierarchy, pursuit of profit, frugal living, and their ability to observe and adapt to the environment, as well as their quick-wittedness and fickleness. In order to thrive under limited conditions, the townspeople's morality also emphasizes group solidarity and the formation of group strength. The townspeople's rootedness enables them to be sensitive to changes in the environment, to spy on the direction, to seize the moment, and to be skillful in calculating, while being profit-oriented, petty and stingy, and parochial and stubborn are their negative characteristics. In foreign relations, the townspeople root nature of the Japanese people's foreign relations activities with a strong utilitarian color, the pursuit of profit pervasive, and even no moral sense. In foreign wars throughout history, Japan has been incredibly cruel and greedy, which is a result of the spirit of Bushido and the townspeople's roots. When there is a major change in the international scene that makes it profitable for Japan, the townspeople's nature prompts Japan to take risks in order to gain profit.

Several blunders brought about by national inferiority (in the case of the Pacific War)

The best part of Japan's national character allowed them to win a major victory in the early stages of World War II. Then unfortunately, the Japanese national inferiority of arrogance and short-sightedness made them suffer big losses in the middle and late part of WWII.

In the Pearl Island incident, in order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, Japan took a lot of secretive measures to cover up the real intention of their own side. For example, strictly controlling the scope of knowledge of the battle plan, changing the call signs of all ships in time, cutting off the direct communication between the attack fleet and the outside world, enforcing the airwave blockade after departure and prohibiting the crews from putting garbage into the sea, and so on.

Then came the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, and this spirit of caution and meticulousness had of course disappeared. Due to insufficient preparation time, not well organized, resulting in too many unrelated people who knew the battle plan, and the preliminary work was not properly camouflaged. The Japanese relaxation of vigilance and paralysis mainly stems from the extreme underestimation of the enemy's intelligence and will to fight.

A Japanese commander even said: "We always talk about keeping secrets, but it's okay to leak a little. If the Americans come out, it's just as easy to finish it off like an eagle catching a chicken.

The Japanese over-confidence "victory disease" was fully exposed in the use of codes. The United States as early as January 1942, nine from the sunken Japanese "I-124" submarine fished out a number of "JN-25" code code book, but the Japanese are assured that boldly used as usual, and even The Japanese have used the code book to send and receive important secrets about the details of the battle.

After the Doolittle raid, the Japanese Navy generated a large number of radio signals during its frantic pursuit of the U.S. fleet, which provided a wealth of material for the U.S. military decipherers. By the end of April, the U.S. military intelligence agencies of the Japanese Navy insisted on the use of "JN-25" B-type cipher has been very familiar with, every day can decipher the interception of all the cipher telegrams of one-twentieth. The Japanese naval command, which knew nothing about it, was convinced that no one could break their double-layer cipher and postponed the date for changing the code book until the end of May, which gave the U.S. forces the advantage of knowing their battle plan in advance and making full preparations for it.

And the Japanese feints in Ceylon and Alaska were rendered futile by the ease with which Nimitz recognized them. If the Japanese had been a little less confident, and if they had changed their codes two months earlier, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway might well have ended differently.