On Japan's Invasion Of Chinese Culture During Japanese War Against China

The Japanese invasion of China consists of economic invasion, military invasion and cultural invasion. Of the three invasions, cultural invasion is a war with no smoke of gunpowder, whose potential damage to the invaded country is more than the damage made by nuclear weapons. In this paper, It discusses the issue of the Japanese invasion of China on this basis from the perspective of cultural depth .In order to deepen the study of Japanese Cultural invasion of China, this dissertation specially exposed and dialyzed the crimes of the Japanese cultural invasions in perspectives of history, politics, religion, and education, etc.The Japanese cultural invasion of China can be divided into two periods: the pre-invasion period and the war period. The pre-invasion period is involved with the theoretical preparation and planning to invade China while the war period is about the forms of cultural invasion which served the Japanese overall invasion of China. In order to win the "heart"of the Chinese people, Japan made a system of invasive policies of Chinese culture. They also formed all kinds of cultural invasive organizations to guarantee their overall cultural invasions. They got control of all news mediums and publications, monitored public opinions, used all kinds of propaganda to cajole the Chinese people. They did all these to legalize and consolidate their building-up of colony in china. To make the Chinese people love Japan, respect Japan, flown on Japan and finally be assimilated, Japan tried to carry out enslaved education by ways of building up enslaved educational system, reorganizing all schools, changing and revising textbooks, and strengthening the study of Japanese language, etc.. They put Japanese language education in the first place to enslave the Chinese people and especially the young people to obey their domination ideologically and thus become their good people. During the invasive war, wherever the Japanese invaders went, damage and destroy would happen to places of historic interest and scenic beauty, and educational institutes; plunder and robbery to cultural objects and all kinds of treasure, books and ancient books. All these damages were undoubtedly cultural damages. Besides, religion also played an importance part in the Japanese cultural invasion. Many Japanese religious schools betrayed their religious ethics to wantonly beautify the Japanese invasion of China and served as supporters of the invasive war and participants in the Japanese cultural invasion.The Japanese cultural invasion of China aimed at destroying the Chinese culture, distorting the will of the Chinese people, smashing the spirits of the Chinese nation so as to make the Chinese people obey them and that they could achieve their insidious scheme to completely get control over China. The Japanese cultural invasion of China greatly destroyed the Chinese culture and its achievements, threw the Chinese education system into confusion. All these brought great destruction to the Chinese culture. The Japanese cultural invasion of China had the features of deception, universality, concealment and compulsion etc. All of them should not be neglected.Researching and introspecting the Japanese cultural invasion of China is beneficial to the avoidance of historic tragedies and to the mutual and friendly cultural communication between Japan and China.