Chapter 93 Assimilation Policy
On June 7, Mu Haoyang went to Kyoto.
Because Tokyo's infrastructure was severely damaged in the war and had not been repaired within more than a year after the war, the new Japanese government regarded Kyoto, which had not been bombed on a large scale, as its administrative capital. Tokyo was only nominally still the capital of Japan.
In fact, Tokyo has long become a "ghost town".
Before the war broke out, the population size of the Greater Tokyo area was more than 40 million, making it the highest population density in Japan and the largest metropolitan area in Japan. At the end of the war, the population in the Greater Tokyo area had decreased to less than 5 million, of which the population in the city of Tokyo was less than one million. In addition to the large number of casualties in the war, the main factor that led to the sharp decline in the population was the strategic evacuation carried out by the old Japanese government, that is, the transfer of factories to the suburbs and forcing workers to also move to the suburbs. Although most residents returned to Tokyo after the war, more than half of the Japanese died of illness in the disaster caused by the particle storm, and the survivors did not stay in the city. The reason is very simple. It was not until July 2036 that China began to provide assistance to Japan, and before that, the Japanese could only obtain living supplies from other channels. Relatively speaking, food was easier to obtain in remote rural areas, but in cities, they basically had to wait for death.
According to statistics from the Japanese government, by early 2037, there were less than 200,000 residents in Tokyo.
Because many war ruins have not had time to clean up, and most of the infrastructure that maintains the city's operation has been paralyzed, Tokyo is not suitable for human habitation at all. Not to mention, at least two million bodies in Tokyo's subway system and sewers have not been properly handled.
Relatively speaking, the environment in Kyoto is much better.
As the ancient capital of Japan, Kyoto did not have much heavy industry, so it was only three smaller-scale bombings during the war, most of the infrastructure was well preserved, and civilians did not evacuate on a large scale. After the war, a large number of Chinese teams entered Kyoto, creating a large number of jobs for the residents here. Not to mention, in the most difficult 2036, at least 100,000 jobs were created in Kyoto, helping 500,000 Japanese people obtain necessary supplies for survival. In addition, the economic effects brought by the garrison also enabled Kyoto to restore power supply first, and some handicraft workshops mainly for production and living materials, as well as service industries serving the garrison.
It is not difficult to understand that the new Japanese government chose Kyoto.
After more than a year of construction, Japan's war trauma is healing, but the traces of war are still everywhere and the long-term impacts caused.
For Mu Haoyang, the most direct feeling is that there are groups of beggars everywhere on Kyoto Street.
Unlike Indian beggars, beggars in Kyoto are mainly teenagers, especially girls under the age of twelve, and most of them are orphans.
Strictly speaking, Mu Haoyang is also an orphan.
Although in his opinion, the Japanese nation itself is guilty because all Japanese people jointly pushed militarism to the stage of history through democratic systems, which not only brought disaster to themselves, but also to China, but like all rational adults, Mu Haoyang does not believe that Japanese children are guilty because they not only do not have the right to vote, but also do not even have the most basic values.
After coming to Kyoto, the first thing Mu Haoyang did was to establish the "Sino-Japan Joint Orphan Rescue Center".
At his request, Pang Yuelong specially dispatched an army to establish orphanages in various parts of Japan, and a large part of the rescue materials were drawn to provide them specifically to orphanages. According to the instructions issued by Mu Haoyang, all orphans must be accommodated within three months, and basic living security, basic education and basic medical security should be provided to them, so as to protect the orphans' life safety with practical actions.
For this matter, Mu Haoyang also made a special trip to return to China to find the prosperous and equal ethnic businessmen, hoping that they would come forward and donate donations to Japanese orphans.
Mu Haoyang's move also caused great controversy.
The most controversial thing at that time was to establish schools in orphanages and teach them in Chinese.
In the eyes of some people, especially in the eyes of more than 10 million Japanese overseas expatriates, Mu Haoyang's move is to erase the foundation of Japan's existence as an independent nation.
Some Western scholars have given this name: de-Japaneseization.
According to these scholars, if all Japanese children speak Chinese and forget their native language, then the Japanese nation will no longer exist.
It's not unreasonable to say this.
The Han people can appear and exist for more than two thousand years. The one who made the greatest contribution was Qin Shihuang who swept the **. The most important thing Qin Shihuang did was to write the same text. It was the emergence of unified characters that China gradually formed a unified centralized country. In Japan, as long as Chinese becomes the only language, it will not take long before Chinese characters will become the popular Japanese characters.
After completing the assimilation of language and writing, the Yamato nation will lose its foundation for its independent existence.
Of course, some people have raised objections.
Those who receive Chinese education are only Japanese children, especially children under the age of twelve. Most Japanese people still speak Japanese, and these children still speak Japanese after they were born in society. Therefore, Chinese is at most Japan's number one foreign language, just like English in Hong Kong and Singapore. More importantly, in history, Japan used Chinese characters for more than two thousand years, and it was not until after the Meiji Restoration that Japanese was appeared, but Japan was not assimilated by China, nor did it lose its own national culture.
Let’s not talk about whether these rebuttals make sense. At least it is not more than two thousand years ago. Even compared with more than two hundred years ago, there is a big difference. Not to mention, Japan’s population base is far less than China, and children account for more than half of the survivors. More importantly, China is no longer a continental country, but a typical maritime power, and its influence on Japan is not comparable in the past.
It can be said that as long as the legal status of Chinese and Chinese characters in Japan is confirmed, it only takes forty years at most, and Japan's national culture will be assimilated by the Han people. The reason is simple. Ten years after the prediction of the average life expectancy of the Japanese, all Japanese over twelve years old will now die, and the Japanese who have received Chinese education, as well as their next generation, are likely not to speak Japanese at all.
In fact, it may not take forty years before Mu Haoyang's move will be revealed.
Ten years later, when Japanese people who received Chinese education entered society, what they were most familiar with was not Japanese, and they must communicate mainly in Chinese.
This possibility is definitely greater if we consider what will happen next.
Just when Mu Haoyang was actively establishing an orphanage, Fang Scientists organized the organization to announce the final forecast of climate change at the Global Climate Affairs Organization.
After three months of precise adjustments, the dust cleaning work has been fully completed.
According to the predictions given by scientists, extreme climate changes only exist in local areas. After a transition period of 20 to 50 years, the global and local climates will return to the level of around 2030, and the impact of particle storms will end here.
Of course, scientists have not forgotten to warn politicians who are ready to move.
In the same report, scientists also clearly mentioned that all human activities may have an impact on the climate, and the butterfly effect of the climate is extremely obvious. Therefore, human beings must change their original consumption methods, especially the way of energy utilization, and must pay more attention to environmental protection, establish a global environmental protection organization to restrain various countries, and do their best to avoid large-scale damage to the earth's environment.
To put it simply, humans must restrain themselves, otherwise all efforts will be in vain.
According to this report, fifteen members of the Global Climate Affairs Organization unanimously decided to reorganize the Global Climate Affairs Organization into the Global Environmental Decision-making Committee, recruit more members, and give the committee the privileges to deal with international trade, finance, economic cooperation, etc.
To put it simply, the Global Environmental Decision-making Committee will directly determine the status of each country in the international community based on the contributions made by each country to protect the environment, and with the purpose of protecting the environment, it will give decision-making bodies special actions and use sanctions and other means to restrict national development.
Of course, the most positive ones are definitely China and the United States.
In the eyes of China and the United States, the Global Environmental Decision-making Committee is a "strong country club" and has higher feasibility and should completely replace the United Nations.
At that time, China and the United States emphasized a view that when environmental problems become the main threat to human civilization, a strong international organization is needed to promote strict environmental protection in various countries, and weak institutions like the United Nations will certainly be unable to perform this duty.
It can be said that this hits the nail on the head.
You should know that at that time, the most concerned thing in all countries was environmental issues.
The harsh natural environment has posed a substantial threat to many countries, and the resulting food crisis is the root of world turmoil.
If we do not pay attention to protecting the environment, human beings will perish themselves.
In order to protect the environment, we must not only do verbal skills. We must take practical actions and strong actions to constrain each country.
For example, in economic development, heavy pollution and high energy consumption industries must be controlled.
From an economic perspective, the most important thing to solve is the energy problem. For the purpose of protecting the environment, mineral energy consumption must be curbed and eventually replaced by clean energy. From a technical perspective, the only thing that can replace oil, natural gas and coal is controllable fusion nuclear energy.
Obviously, China has sufficient technological advantages.
Relatively speaking, the United States also has technological advantages.
By playing the environmental card, China and the United States have been used to the maximum extent, which has contributed to the establishment of an international group with China and the United States as its core. For many small and medium-sized countries, it is also a key factor in promoting their strategic position as soon as possible.
It may not be so beneficial to other countries, even the EU and Russia.
However, the most important thing that happened this month was not the reorganization of the global climate affairs organization, but something that had been expected but not many people were willing to believe.
Chapter completed!