There is a legend behind this: in the late 1920s, there was a wealthy businessman named Cai Zhikan from China in Tokyo. Cai graduated from Waseda University and joined the League in his early years. He conveyed to Zhang Xueliang many times the news he got in contact with Japanese elites through his good friend and secretary Wang Jiazhen. 1June, 928, Cai Zhikan received a secret letter from Wang Jiazhen, hoping to get the "Tanaka memorial". Cai Zhikan started with the contradiction between the young people of the Japanese Political Friendship Association and the veteran people's party, and learned that the old party was very dissatisfied with the arrogance of the young people, and deliberately leaked the plans of the youth government and frustrated their spirit. Cai proposed to Mu, a representative of the Senate, that he should publish this top secret material himself. In the middle of the night, Cai disguised himself as a supplement worker, sneaked into the palace stacks, covered the 67 pages of Tanaka with transparent drawing paper and handed them to him. After Wang Jiazhen received the letter, he immediately asked someone to translate it and report it to Zhang Xueliang. 200 copies of Zhang's instructions were printed and distributed to important military and political officials in Northeast China, and 4 copies were sent to Nanjing government.
"If you want to conquer zhina, you must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia. If you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer Zhina. If Zena is completely conquered by me, other people with different clothes, such as Asia Minor, India and Nanyang, will fear me, respect me and submit to me. " "Tanaka Memorial" inherited the tone of the mainland policy in Meiji era, but it was even more arrogant. "Let the world know that East Asia is my East Asia and dare not invade me" because Japan has been operating in Manchuria for more than ten years.
/kloc-The Russo-Japanese War, which ended in 0/905, consolidated Japan's vested interests in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and it was also the beginning of Japanese immigration and colonial economy to Northeast China and Inner Mongolia step by step. At first, the Japanese immigrants imported to the northeast of China were mainly veterans and armed farmers. The purpose was to provide information and backup for the Kwantung Army, manipulate local forces and resist the Soviet Union's southward advance while engaged in agricultural production. Later, it was extended to ordinary farmers. By the eve of the September 18th Incident, there were 230,000 Japanese immigrants in Northeast China. In terms of investment, according to Tanaka's memorial, Japan invested 440 million yen in railways, shipping, mines, forests, steel, agricultural and livestock products in the northeast of China through the establishment of Nanman Railway Company, "in the name of coexistence and common prosperity between Japan and".
These Japanese immigrants who went to other countries to expand their territory and accumulate wealth were in trouble from the beginning. At first, it didn't adapt to the cold climate in Northeast China, and because of the lack of materials, the vacillation and resistance to immigrants occurred from time to time. "When the Japanese in Manchuria found themselves the target of China's patriotism, the situation became more severe. By 193 1, Manchuria's foreign affairs had been placed under Nanjing's jurisdiction, and three northeastern provinces had set up new transportation committees, planning to establish a unified railway and telecommunications system ... China people were keen to build their own railways to weaken the Nanman Railway, develop Huludao Port to compete with Dalian, and gradually curb Japanese mining and forestry by refusing to extend the lease of land or preventing domestic workers from working for them. " -The description of the situation in Northeast China in Cambridge History of the Republic of China is consistent with the tense situation revealed in Tanaka Memorial;
"However, after the European War, many changes have taken place in diplomatic governance, and the authorities in the three northeastern provinces woke up one day. They followed in my footsteps and sought to establish the prosperity of their own industries. The speed of progress is amazing. "
"Manchuria's benefits from the Russo-Japanese War were also greatly limited by the Nine-Nation Treaty. In this way, China people can't keep flowing in. On the contrary, every year, a large number of China people flood into and migrate to the three northeastern provinces, which is equivalent to one million people in Ma Benteng. Even after I was in power, I was given the right to let the remaining 800 people in our country have nowhere to live. "
"Zhina people wake up every day. Although civil strife is in full swing, its people can still be diligent and imitate Japanese goods from generation to generation. Therefore, it has hindered the progress of China's trade. "
1927, the "Nanjing Incident", which happened thousands of miles away in Nanjing and the Northern Expedition Revolutionary Army regained the British Concession by force, gave birth to the "Tanaka Memorial". The Japanese held an 1 1 day "Oriental Conference" for the "Nanjing Incident". "The East" is China, and this geographical disorientation is based on "Japan belongs to the East geographically, but to the West politically; The Japanese belong to the East in appearance, but to the West in spirit. " The Japanese associated the "Nanjing Incident" with obstructing their colonial management in Manchuria, which they thought was a dangerous signal.
The "China policy program" formulated by the "Oriental Conference" is the blueprint for Tanaka's secret memorial, which will be presented directly to the Japanese emperor in the future.
Quit the League of Nations and don't stop until you are crazy.
Four years later, the conspiracy in "Tanaka Memorial", which had already been made public, was put into action by the Kwantung Army and became a fact. The "September 18th Incident" posed a difficult problem to the international community at that time: how to treat Japan, a member of the League of Nations that openly invaded other countries by force?
At the beginning of the incident, the League of Nations sent a fact-finding mission. "Japan despises all suggestions for continuing to maintain its internationalist role", 1932 1, Kwantung Army occupied Jinzhou, Marine Corps landed in Shanghai, and declared "Manchuria independence" in March. Japan brazenly declared that Manchuria was "a place without division and exploitation in the world".
This statement echoes the increasingly noisy "national socialism" (that is, fascism) in Japan. "The war launched by Japan to actively develop itself is a just move, not just for self-interest, just as the self-action of other nations to promote awakening, break through the status quo and exclude occupiers and aggressors is regarded as a just move. Just as the class struggle within a country occurs because of this unjust difference, the just international war also occurs to change this unjust difference. Britain is the richest man in the world, while Russia is the big landlord in the northern hemisphere. For Japan, the world proletariat with scattered islands as its national border, is there no right to wage war in the name of justice to seize the land monopolized by them? " This amazing remark was made by the famous Japanese fascist madman North Ikki.
At that time, the humble pupils who followed the European and American teachers in the Minglu Museum became so tough. In addition to the ever-expanding fascist consciousness, there is also an economic foundation: in the world economic crisis from 1929 to 1932, the international economic system based on the gold standard and the free circulation of commodity capital collapsed rapidly-the Japanese could not see any reason to look at other people's faces.
On the other hand, militaristic literati continue to publicize their theories. Japan's domestic propaganda entered an "extraordinary period", and pure literary works were regarded as leisure literature, which was sharply compressed; Newspapers often "open the skylight" because they violate the "wartime propaganda regulations"; The radio reported the heroic behavior of the "Imperial Army". Many famous Japanese writers and artists, such as Natsume, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Akira Kurosawa, were advocates of fascist militarism.
At this point, militarism has completely prevailed in Japan's domestic politics and foreign relations, and militaristic Japan has embarked on a road of no return.