China-Japan Diplomatic Row Starts To Take an Economic Toll｜TaiwanPlus News

It doesn't matter how many times the Chinese regime repeats the lies,
or how angry it pretends to be,
– Taiwan 🇹🇼 is still an independent country.

战争就在下一秒，打赢才有资格聊！说得再多，讲得再好？冲上战场见分晓……

the CCP is composed of immature arrogant kids

Japan shows through the fact they now defend the very empire that killed more Japanese throughout its history than plagues. That its even beside this point , the good little lap dogs of america . So it seems the very nation that attacked china in 1945. And that got nuked by america . Supports america against China. Oh how very European of Japan. Maybe just maybe its got its place on the elected European lap dogs to white supremacy after all its suffered to get there.

1. What was printed in Japanese newspapers right after Pearl Harbor?

On 8 December 1941 (Japan time), a few hours after the Pearl Harbor strike and simultaneous attacks in Malaya and Hong Kong, the government issued the Imperial Rescript declaring war on the United States and the British Empire (米國及英國ニ對スル宣戰ノ詔書).

According to research on the declaration itself, this imperial edict was:
• Published on 8 December 1941
• Printed on the front page of all major Japanese newspapers’ evening editions that same day
• And then reprinted on the 8th of every month afterwards as a propaganda ritual. 

So if you picked up an Asahi, Yomiuri, or Mainichi evening paper in Tokyo on 8 December 1941, the core text you saw was this Imperial Rescript.

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2. What did the Rescript actually say?

The key passage in the Imperial Rescript is very clear about “survival” / “self-preservation”:

“This trend of affairs would, if left unchecked, … endanger the very existence of Our Empire. The situation being such as it is, Our Empire, for its existence and self-defense, has no other recourse but to appeal to arms and to crush every obstacle in its path.” 

That sentence is the heart of the justification, and it was exactly what the newspapers printed. The Rescript framed the war as:
• A response to US–British support for the Chongqing (Chiang Kai-shek) regime in China
• A reaction to “Anglo-American” efforts that supposedly “aggravated disturbances in East Asia”
• A necessary step to prevent those actions from endangering the Empire’s very existence 

Japanese wartime propaganda and later intellectual commentary repeatedly pointed out that the Imperial Rescript defined the war as “self-defense”, reinforcing a narrative that Japan was a victim forced into war, not an aggressor. 

So: in terms of contemporary Japanese official language that the public saw, the war was literally described as necessary for the Empire’s existence and self-defense.

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3. Did they link that “survival” logic specifically to Pearl Harbor?

The Rescript itself doesn’t single out “Pearl Harbor” by name; it talks about:
• War against the United States and the British Empire
• The situation in China and “Anglo-American” interference
• The necessity of war to ensure the Empire’s survival

But context matters:
• The Rescript was issued after the Pearl Harbor strike and the Malaya landings, and it was clearly meant to justify what had just happened.
• Japanese radio broadcasts on 8 December 1941 and the newspapers’ front pages tied the declaration of war to news of the “great victories” at Pearl Harbor and in Southeast Asia. 

So although the text doesn’t say “we attacked Pearl Harbor to survive,” the only practical meaning of “appeal to arms” on that day was:

expanding the already ongoing China war into a wider conflict with the US and UK – starting with the Pearl Harbor attack and the southern advance.

Newspapers, working under tight state control and censorship by late 1941, reproduced this official line almost verbatim. Studies of wartime Japanese media note that by this stage, the mass press largely functioned as an extension of the state’s information system, not an independent voice.

I’m in Tokyo right now, and it’s crowded with tourists from mainland China who are littering, spitting in malls, kicking deer at Nara Park, and disregarding local customs. Why do people from mainland China complain about Japan yet still choose to vacation here?