Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

The Governor of Tokyo controls 40% of Japan's tax revenue.

If it weren't for Japan's bizarre and distorted system, Li Xinghe would have already secured such a huge tax base, adding trillions of yen to the annual fiscal budget.

Therefore, both morally and logically, this bizarre system must be changed.

Just as they were talking, Lin Meng rushed in with her phone, and the bomb girl whispered:

"It's Mom on the phone. The Self-Defense Forces are making arrests from within. They've supposedly found the culprit who launched missiles at US forces and you in 2028."

The Okinawa Incident will take place in January 2028.

Looking back now, it was really just a mere three years.

The Maritime Self-Defense Force launched missiles without authorization, intending to eliminate Li Xinghe, who was interfering with the regime. This led to a series of ship collisions and caused the USS Kennedy to lose its skull, forcing the aircraft carrier to return to the mainland for repairs for more than a year.

Therefore, when Japan did not have US aircraft carriers, Li Xinghe's power expanded significantly, and he even dared to launch a coup.

he asks:

"Did the Self-Defense Forces inform the court?"

"This is a serious matter; it seems the Self-Defense Forces want to resolve it internally..."

……

Ichitani Town Ministry of Defense.

Atsushi Minami, the communications director of the Maritime Staff Office of the Ministry of Defense, brought a document to Takuto Ogasawara, the chief of staff of the Air Self-Defense Force.

"We've found the mastermind behind the Okinawa Incident, those guys..."

The Ministry of Defense also applied telegram sensitive word technology, so during the recent grand awarding of medals and the large-scale annexation of the Self-Defense Forces, the Minister of Communications discovered some strange groups and strange people.

After a thorough investigation, the communications ministers discovered the seriousness of the problem: these people were suspected of involvement in the 2028 Okinawa Incident, in which someone fired a bomb at Lee Sung-ha's flagship, the Kaohsiung.

Nan Hou reported the intelligence to Yagi Koji, who was in Okinawa, and entrusted the matter to the Air Self-Defense Force's Chief of Staff, Ogasawara Takuto.

After seeing the photo, Takuto Ogasawara closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

"It's him."

This person was none other than Toshiyuki Hirata, the Minister of Defense of the Maritime Staff Office and the Air General in charge of national defense operations planning.

"That's right. Hirata is suspected of it."

"Grasp."

Without much thought, Takuto Ogasawara, accompanied by a dozen or so high-ranking Self-Defense Force officers, stopped the completely unaware Hirata in another building.

Upon seeing so many people appear, Hirata Toshiyuki was first stunned, then calmly stood up and was led to a car, escorted all the way to the outside of the Imperial Palace.

Upon arriving at this place, the site of the execution of soldiers from the February 226 Incident and the post-war execution of Japanese war criminals, Takuto Ogasawara got out of the car and questioned him:

"Hirata! As the Minister of Defense Planning of the National Self-Defense Forces, is this the kind of defense plan you used to secretly plot against the head of state, government leaders, and the supreme leader of the military? Were you the mastermind behind the 2028 incident?"

"Humph."

Hirata Toshiyuki, on the contrary, refuted him:

“Ogasawara! You yourself graduated from the 34th National Defense Academy. Among the chiefs of staff back then, you were the only one who was promoted beyond the rank of chief. Don’t you know what the country is like now? When Chief of Staff Uchikura Hiroaki launched the National Purge Uprising, you were the deputy chief of staff. Do you dare to say that you didn’t support the final counterattack back then? Even if the Imperial Palace was bombed into ruins, even if F2 trainer jets and F16s fell from the sky, we still pooled money to send pensions to the pilots without any complaints.”

Faced with questions from his contemporaries, Takuto Ogasawara closed his eyes.

Hirata Toshiyuki not only admitted his involvement in the 2028 Okinawa Incident, but also implicated Uchikura Hiroaki's military coup counterattack during Li Xinghe's coup.

Then they definitely shouldn't be kept.

As a graduate of the 34th class of the National Defense Academy, Takuto Ogasawara was not qualified to be promoted at this level based on his length of service. His predecessors, Yasuomi Morishita and Hiroaki Uchikura, were from the 30th and 31st classes, respectively. According to Japan's highly traditional seniority system and hammock number system, Ogasawara's position should have been held by graduates of the 32nd and 33rd classes of the National Defense Academy.

Hirata Toshiyuki knew that the cause of the 2028 Okinawa Incident had been revealed, and that he was doomed to die; therefore, he gritted his teeth and harbored deep resentment.

"Open your eyes! What has become of this world? Schools are teaching children 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Principles,' and textbooks are even including Sun Yat-sen and Lu Xun, talking about deep reflection on the crimes of the past wars, yet they are making the people forever remember that shameful history. When the next generation comes along, all they'll say is 'Damn Japanese devils' and 'Down with militarism,' and they'll run off to China, to Beijing. I'd rather see Japan reduced to ruins in flames than see Japan's future youth saluting in front of Tiananmen Square!"

The Self-Defense Force officers who came to surround him were deeply moved by this person whose mind was filled with only 'positive and negative' thoughts.

That's too extreme.

Extreme individuals may fail to see the general trend of history or understand their own position.

Ogasawara Takuto then said:

“I was promoted because I was born in Showa 41 (1966). Although my military service years were different, my age was the same.”

In terms of age, Takuto Ogasawara is roughly the same age as the chiefs of staff of the Ground Self-Defense Force and the Maritime Self-Defense Force. He just looks younger.

He criticized:

"Toshiyuki Hirata, you are a rising star in the Maritime Staff Office. As Minister of Defense, you could be promoted to Vice Chief of Staff at any time. But you chose the most dangerous path, associating with those secret societies in the military. It's truly disappointing."

Hirata Toshiyuki, however, disagreed with this criticism:

"Then tell me, what path should Japan take?"

Ogasawara Takuto naturally said:

"We only have this one path to take, and that is to follow the path of Taiko to leave Europe and enter Asia. The Japanese only have one path to redeem themselves, and that is to follow the path of Taiko to eliminate militarism and return to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. History has already been written, and there will be no other path in this world."

The Self-Defense Force officers present all knew that this was the only way.

Hirata Toshiyuki snorted coldly.

"Go ahead and fire me if you dare!"

Dismissal?

Are you kidding me right now?

With the consent of Koji Yagi, Takuto Ogasawara, along with officers from the Air Self-Defense Force, cornered and captured the Minister of Defense of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Is this something that can be resolved with a mere dismissal?

He smiled:

"Dismissal? Do you know that Kazumi Ueda, who was just appointed Chief of Staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, is reorganizing the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, preparing to eliminate more old, weak, sick, and disabled personnel, and streamlining it into a police-style force mainly responsible for internal affairs? Do you know that Princess Tawara, who is in charge of the headquarters of the Joint Operations Command, is a student of Yuko Hayashi, the Chief of Staff of the United Nations Command? Do you know that the United Nations Command is expanding its recruitment of more Self-Defense Force officers and establishing a joint entity of East Asia, including China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea?"

"At a time when everyone is riding high and making rapid progress, we can't let the scandal you committed in 2028 interfere with everyone's future. Once this matter is brought to court, the entire Self-Defense Force will be implicated. You'll have no choice but to die."

Hirata Toshiyuki struggled with extreme dissatisfaction:

"What!? It's not just me who committed a crime, there were so many others..."

Several generals held him down, shoved him to the city wall, covered him with a white cloth, and stripped him of his military uniform.

Clutching the mud and stone walls, his face covered by a white cloth, Hirata Toshiyuki looked up at the newly renovated Imperial Palace, and couldn't help but recall an old Japanese film he'd seen. He then cried out a poignant line:

"Long live the Emperor!"

This painful cry contained no respect for the Emperor system, but rather resentment and dissatisfaction.

It was as if it were complaining, "You son of a bitch, the country has become like this, and you haven't said a word."

Japan is such a twisted country, with its social culture based on the emperor system and its irresponsible system of collective silence entangled in everyone's soul.

In the Imperial Palace, separated by only a wall, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, who had just returned to rest, heard such sounds. They were unaware that officers from the Self-Defense Forces were being executed next door.

Naruhito was still wondering:

"Is someone playing 'The Great Japanese Empire'? It sounds a lot like Takashi Egami's final desperate cry."

"Have you seen that movie?" Masako asked, slightly surprised.

From a Chinese perspective, this film's critique of the Emperor might seem minor, but within the context of Japanese society, it was quite bold. It dared to use the death of Hideki Tojo, while the Showa Emperor was still alive, as a starting point to indirectly criticize his hypocrisy and his responsibility for the war.

Naruhito wiped his forehead regretfully:

"A liberal arts student with a Christian faith was forcibly taken to the battlefield in the Philippines and forced to become a member of the Sakura Suicide Squad. He followed his superior in slaughtering local residents who resembled his lover. After the war, he was sentenced to death and shouted these words in despair before his death. I know this all too well. The movie was released when I was 25 years old. I really liked its predecessor, 230 Hill, so I secretly watched the whole movie."

Takashi Egami is a key character in this film. A hapless liberal arts graduate, he is sent to the battlefield and forced to participate in the Cherry Blossom Special Attack while being swept along by the main force. He also participates in the massacre of civilians. Finally, under the forced dogma of militarism, he shouts that he is dying for His Majesty the Emperor and is shot and executed by His Majesty the Emperor's soldiers who have already surrendered to the United States.

The character is portrayed as criticizing militarism from beginning to end, yet he insists on shouting "Long live His Majesty the Emperor" before dying. This is a critique of the distortion and madness of the Emperor system and militarism.

However, these weak anti-war films, mixed with the Japanese right wing's fondness for the early victory impressions of the war, mean that the directors dared not directly criticize or address the core issues, but could only hint at the anti-war sentiment indirectly, resulting in a convoluted and laughable situation. To Chinese audiences, this was almost equivalent to opposing defeat in war.

Similarly, when Hirata Toshiyuki was brought to the outer wall of the Higashi-no-Maru of the Imperial Palace, and he shouted "Long live His Majesty the Emperor," his political background was as twisted as that of a Japanese anti-war film.

"shot."

Ogasawara Takuto raised his hand.

Someone nearby hesitated and said:

"He hasn't..."

"Haven't they been publicly tried yet? No, we must be strict and eradicate these Self-Defense Force officers with such confused ideas from the very root. We cannot allow them to interfere with the country's new path."

Of course, this should not prevent Self-Defense Force officers from embarking on a new path.

Just then, a car pulled up there.

Takuto Ogasawara ran over in a flustered manner and bowed to Li Xinghe, who had rolled down the car window.

"Report! We are executing a Self-Defense Force officer suspected of opposing national policies. Please forgive my failure to provide a full report."

Li Xinghe simply stuck his head out of the car window to watch, and was slightly surprised to learn that the person responsible for the Okinawa incident in 2028 was the Minister of Defense of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Unexpectedly, when he struck with the stick, chickens, ducks, dogs, and snakes all flew out.

They can even dig up old stories.

Li Xinghe waved his hand and said listlessly:

"Send the family the air force general's pension, and say it was an accidental fall into the sea. Let's leave it at that."

He knew what the Self-Defense Forces' top brass was worried about, so he generously promised not to delve too deeply into it.

However, generals like Takuto Ogasawara knew that they also had to clean up the mess from that time.

More Self-Defense Force officers must be executed, a bloody sacrifice must be made.

Then, the officer in charge of the execution pulled the trigger, and Hirata Toshiyuki was executed by firing squad at the foot of the outer wall of the Imperial Palace.

Upon learning that Li Xinghe had protected the Self-Defense Forces and given officers like Takuto Ogasawara the opportunity to continue their promotions, the officers wept uncontrollably and even knelt on the ground to thank Li Xinghe for his leniency.

Li Xinghe drove away.

Air Self-Defense Force commanders, including Takuto Ogasawara, bowed 90 degrees in the direction Li Xinghe's car had left, and shouted at the top of their lungs:

"Long live the Emperor!"

The same sentence, spoken by different people and in different tones, can have vastly different effects.

Naruhito and Masako, the couple in the Imperial Palace, were still wondering if they had finished showing "The Great Japanese Empire" and started showing "226".

Why did you call it again?

Chapter 827: Women Sing, Men Die; Space Diva Busy Killing (5400 words)

As the true Emperor, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Naruhito were completely baffled as to what had happened in Japan.

Since the Old Imperial Palace was blown up by Li Xinghe, the New Imperial Palace has been a complete shell. Half of the funds allocated to the Imperial Family each year are used for the living and entertainment of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, Emperor Fumihito and Empress Masako, and their children, while the other half is used to fortify the Imperial Palace. Therefore, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako's daily life consists of hiking and traveling, while Emperor Fumihito resides at his mistress's house in Thailand, each in their own leisurely manner.

Therefore, whether it is the "Emperor" mentioned by those conservative right-wing elements in the military who were eliminated, or the "Emperor" mentioned by the military generals who obeyed the new order, they have almost nothing to do with the real Emperor Naruhito.

The "Long Live the Emperor" chanted by conservative right-wingers refers to the image of Japan as a nation built around the Emperor.

The "Emperor" mentioned by the loyalists refers to the biological father of the next Emperor, Ri Taiko.

After the execution, the body was thrown into the morgue of the Royal Hospital, where a military doctor issued a diagnosis stating that the cause of death was drowning.

Thus, the life of this defense minister came to an end.

But the problem is not over.

Inside the Ministry of Defense in Ichigaya Town, three Self-Defense Force chiefs of staff sat together with the Minister of General Affairs, Tawara Chikihime, discussing Li Xinghe's attitude—which was more terrifying than any statement, even though he hadn't expressed it.

Hirata Toshiyuki was certainly not the only dissident in the military; he wasn't even a radical, he was simply discovered. Therefore, it was common knowledge that there were many Self-Defense Force officers within the force who harbored dissent against Lee Sung-ha. Under these circumstances, the Self-Defense Force had no room to continue operating.

To prove one's loyalty.

It will come at a bloody price.

Newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Ground Self-Defense Force, Kazumi Ueda, proposed his own solution:

"How about sending the intelligence unit of the Ground Self-Defense Force to investigate? Let them find more Self-Defense Force officers suspected of being insurgents and completely eliminate these bad apples who are affecting the future of the country and the military."

The Intelligence Division is an intelligence unit created by the Japan Self-Defense Forces under the guise of the Ground Self-Defense Force.

But what about checking?