From the Japanese side, the first thing is to invade China, and the second is to have the ability to invade China.
From China's point of view, the reason why Japan takes China instead of other countries as the main target of aggression is because China is a "fat meat", with a vast territory and abundant resources, and it is close to Japan, which is convenient for Japan to use troops; The more important reason is that China's national strength is weak, and the Chinese nation has great weaknesses and defects, which gives the Japanese aggressors an opportunity.
The reason why Japan embarked on the road of aggression and expansion lies in its strong militaristic tradition in its national culture.
We can sort out a train of thought: Bushido makes the Japanese strong and martial, strong and martial, and the characteristics of the imperial system. In addition, the demand for the development of Japanese capitalism after the Meiji Restoration prompted Japan to embark on the path of militarism. Japanese militarism and fascism imported from the west are intertwined, giving birth to a freak with Japanese characteristics-more militant, more brutal, more adventurous and aggressive fascist militarism. In this way, Japan is like a chariot manipulated by the devil, and it is impossible not to launch a war of aggression. This is the inevitability of Japanese invasion of China.
Secondly, some characteristics of Japanese national culture and national character have enhanced Japan's national strength and its ability to invade China.
The objective factors of Japan's invasion of China. Anyway, we are too close to the devil.
However, this is not the main factor. The more important reason why we were invaded by Japan lies in ourselves.
Judging from China's subjective factors, there are the following reasons:
First of all, China's weak national strength made the Japanese aggressors think that China was vulnerable.
China's comprehensive national strength is backward, which is manifested in many aspects, such as political corruption, economic backwardness and people's ignorance. From a military point of view, the backwardness of China's army exposed in the Opium War and the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 actually experienced a long-term quantitative accumulation in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and finally formed a qualitative gap; Moreover, this backwardness is not one aspect, but comprehensive and comprehensive, which is manifested in weapons and equipment, military training, strategy and tactics, organization and command ability, military literacy, cultural vision, and self-confidence of officers and men.
Japanese warlords value strength most and even believe in force. Japan's remarkable superiority in the strength comparison between China and Japan greatly inspired their aggressive ambitions and made their all-round war of aggression against China of practical significance. Some Japanese warlords even boasted that as long as Japan sent three cruisers and 1 division, China could be destroyed within 1 week. Its arrogance can be seen.
Secondly, the national character of China people made Japanese warlords feel that China was weak.
Japan's superiority in strength gave Japan the material conditions to invade China, while China's weakness in national character made Japanese warlords feel that China was weak.
The Chinese nation advocates serving people with virtue, harmony and moderation in times of trouble. Under this cultural background, China people are peaceful, kind, tolerant, introverted, passive and cowardly, and introverted.
China people's worship of peace has a deep-rooted economic foundation, and China people's awareness of peace has almost penetrated into the blood and bone marrow of the nation. It is not difficult to understand why China's ancient poems describing war are always so melancholy and bitter, and there is no heroism. It is also not difficult to understand why the strong and unified China dynasty in history, especially the Han Dynasty, never had the desire to invade weak Japan.
The internal strife in China gave the Japanese aggressors an opportunity.