In September 2016, a beautiful woman of Chinese descent won the first prize in the election for the head of the Japanese Democratic Progressive Party, and the news immediately shocked the whole country.
Soon after, this news also turned the eyes of Chinese, who was across the sea, and this rising star in Japanese politics was Japan's popular queen: Lotus Ship.
However, Lianfang, who reached the peak, did not go well on the road of politics, and only ten months later, that is, in October 2017, due to her mediocre political performance and the explosion of a private life scandal, Lianfang was forced to resign from the position of the head of the DPP and step down.
Lianfang is very popular in Japanese politics and is recognized as a political star, and her Chinese ancestry is also one of the favorite topics to talk about, and it has also attracted the attention of Chinese netizens.
When people went to understand the story of Lianfang, they accidentally found that her grandmother, who originated in Shanghai, was an authentic traitor, and during the War of Resistance, she personally donated 2 fighter jets to the Japanese army; many years later, Lianfang (her granddaughter) openly questioned the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands; if there was really her grandmother, there must be her granddaughter.
In this article, let's take a look at lotus boats.
Her father's name was Hsieh Chee-shin, a Native of Taiwan, who later settled in Japan and married a Japanese woman, Keiko Saito, whose original name was Hsieh Lian-ho.
Strictly speaking, Xie Lianfang was born in Japan as a mixed-Race Chinese-Japanese child, but before she was 18 years old, her household registration information was marked as Taiwanese nationality, and she only joined Japanese nationality after the age of 18. At that time, she did not go through the formalities of renouncing her origin, and for a long time she was legally a Dual Japanese.
Although she has a Chinese name, she has lived in Japan since she was a child, received all Japanese education, is no different from ordinary Japanese, does not speak Chinese, and even before she reaches adulthood, she does not realize that she will have a lot to do with China.
There are many Chinese-Japanese mixed races in Japan, and Xie Lianfang is not a very special person, but she has a very powerful grandmother, this person is named Chen Xingcun.
From another point of view, Xie Lianfang inherited her mother's slender figure and exquisite appearance, but from the inner spiritual essence, she was undoubtedly a copy of Chen Xingcun, and the excellent genes of both sides were successfully preserved in her body.
Chen Xingcun is a Taiwanese, the family is rich, she lived in that era, Taiwan is under japanese colonial rule, so she has a deep affection and yearning for Japan.
With a good family situation, Chen Xingcun received a good education, judging from her later behaviors, she has a deep sense of identity with her identity as a Chinese, and has a deep affection for traditional Chinese culture.
This situation also made Chen Xingcun have similar feelings for China and Japan, but later there was an unprecedented war between China and Japan, and the two ethnic groups formed a bloody feud.
Chen Xingcun did not make a choice between the two, but fantasized about continuing to juggle left and right, stepping on two boats.
Chen Xingcun received a good education in Taiwan and later went to Japan to study at the Ginza Fashion School in Tokyo. Going to fashion school in those days was not something that ordinary people could do.
Chen Xingcun is born beautiful, beautiful, but also very good at sociability, and fashion is the patent of the Japanese aristocratic class, so Chen Xingcun in the Japanese upper class to meet a lot of dignitaries, laid a solid foundation for their future.
Later, Chen Xingcun returned to Taiwan to start a family, but the good times were short-lived, her husband died early, and Chen Xingcun became a single woman again. However, she is not a simple woman, she has her own ambitions, she ran to Shanghai alone to work hard, at that time China and Japan have already started a war, this woman braved the gunfire retrograde, it is really not simple.
Chen Xingcun dared to go to Shanghai because there were many friends she had made when she was in Tokyo, and by this time, these people had become senior officers in the Japanese army and held important positions in Shanghai.
After coming to Shanghai, Chen Xingcun quickly exerted her sociable expertise and exerted her network resources to the extreme, she had a very business vision, and set her sights on the unpopular business at that time, tobacco.
Tobacco was not taken seriously by the Japanese at that time, and Chen Xingcun did not take much effort to get the tobacco monopoly, which was equivalent to monopolizing the entire Shanghai tobacco market.
At the same time, she also used her status as a Taiwanese to have extensive contact with the three religions and nine streams of people in Shanghai, and the business soon flourished.
Chen Xingcun has strong communication skills and strong relations with the Japanese, and when dealing with Chinese, he shows great sympathy for his compatriots, and at the same time provides them with some help within his ability.
Soon after, Chen Xingcun became a celebrity in Shanghai, and at the same time indirectly had contacts with military and central government agencies.
The Kuomintang side approached Chen Xingcun, hoping to get some information about the Japanese through her connections, and also wanted to ask her to help transfer some of the property hidden in Shanghai by the kuomintang top brass.
Chen Xingcun was very shrewd, and she could not predict whether the Japanese would stay in Shanghai forever, so she decided to eat both ends, on the one hand, secretly helping the Kuomintang, and on the other hand, providing some intelligence to the Japanese.
In this way, within a few years, Chen Xingcun made a fortune in Shanghai, and relied on his own exquisite means to mix left and right, and the scenery was infinite. She was not only appreciated by the Japanese army, but also appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife for helping the Kuomintang transfer assets.
If Chen Xingcun only made some money by doing business with the Japanese, and provided some innocuous information from time to time, it would not be a big problem, after all, it was not easy to be a female stream.
But living in Shanghai, she was born in Shanghai, not only is she not grateful to the city, she seems to have greater illusions about the Japanese occupation of China, the most obvious manifestation is that she actually donated 2 fighter jets to the Japanese army, named "Xingcun No. 1 and Xingcun No. 2" respectively.
In this way, her nature has completely changed, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, fighters were extremely lethal weapons, and the Chinese army was in urgent need of fighters, and it was impossible to compete with the Japanese Air Force. The ground troops were almost only beaten in front of the Japanese fighters, and countless Chinese soldiers and civilians died under the bombardment of the Japanese fighters.
The donation of fighter jets to the Japanese army by the Chinese beauty Chen Xingcun is definitely a serious act of traitor and an unquestionable traitor.
In 1945, Japan suddenly announced its surrender, Chen Xingcun and most of the traitors did not escape, were arrested by the Nationalist army, these traitors will be severely tried, the Chinese people are indignant, eager to cut these scum with a thousand knives.
Chen Xingcun also realized the seriousness of the matter, and after she was arrested, she actively used her original relationship, spending a lot of money up and down, and even called Song Meiling for intercession.
Later, she hired a senior lawyer to exonerate herself, and the officials who handled related affairs did not have less money, and in the end, she was acquitted. Immediately after her release from prison, she returned to Taiwan to continue her business.
After the defeat of the Kuomintang in Taiwan, relations with the Japanese side eased, and Chen Xingcun took the opportunity to use his advantages to expand his business in Japan, and her son Xie Zhexin was also educated in Japan, where he ran a family business after graduation.
Tse later married a beautiful Japanese woman named Keiko Saito.
It is said that Keiko Saito was very beautiful when she was young, and was once chosen by Shiseido as an image spokesperson.
On November 28, 1967, Saito Keiko gave birth to a baby girl, and Chen Xingcun was very happy to learn of it, and gave her a particularly romantic and ancient Chinese name: "Lotus Ship".
It means that "the love of the lotus flower gradually fades", and at the same time, it echoes with the famous scenic spot of Huaiyang "Su Ting Lotus Boat", "The lotus flowers outside the Su Lake Pavilion float, and the thousand years of fang traces say that the child is by." A few Qing songs to paint the boat, a line of egrets under Tingzhou. ”
Chen Xingcun once took care of his granddaughter Lianfang in Japan for a while, which should have a great impact on her granddaughter's later life.
Inheriting her mother's beautiful countenance and slender figure, Xie Lianfang was a well-known beauty when she was a teenager, and her academic performance was very good, and she was admitted to Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.
When she had just graduated, she took a fancy to a new Nissan sedan and begged her father to buy it as a graduation gift, but his father sternly refused.
LianFang is very angry about this, and accidentally learns that a cosmetics company is holding a beauty contest, and the winner prize is the Nissan sedan she likes.
Therefore, LianFang rushed to the car to register for the race, and did not expect to win the championship all the way through the barrier, and got the car on his own.
Since then, Lianfang has been discovered by commercial companies and began her acting career.
Lian Fang did not intend to enter the show business circle at first, but what woman can get rid of the nature of loving beauty?
Woman, born beautiful, after all, it is difficult to give up, God gave her this beautiful face, at the most precious age, if you do not let it bloom delicately, is not there a gift from heaven.
Since then, LianFang has flourished in her career in show business, modeling, taking photos, and later becoming a TV host.
It was also during his time as a host that he met her husband, Nobuyuki Murata.
The two married in 1993, and since then Xie Lianfang has changed her surname to "Murata Lotus".
In 1995, the couple went to Beijing to study Chinese for two years, during which time they also traveled to many parts of China. According to Lianfang's own recollection, she has Chinese ancestry, but she can't even speak a word of Chinese, and she always feels a pity, so she wants to learn about her other motherland and learn Chinese.
At that time, Lotus Fang had not yet entered politics, and was still a relatively simple woman.
In 1997, Lianfang gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, when she had just returned from studying in China, she named her son "Lin"; her daughter was called "Cuilan", both of which were Chinese names.
Lianfang usually pays special attention to the image, has a very eye-catching education, good tutoring, and a happy and warm family, coupled with her career efforts, making her popular in Japan very high.
However, later in a show, she inadvertently made a mistake, which led to the death of her acting career.
In 2004, Lotus, who was in the trough, did not expect to receive an olive branch from Japan's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, inviting her to join the party and participate in politics.
From a showbiz star, suddenly into the political arena, this change is really a bit big, Lian Fang considered it again and again, accepted the invitation, and decided to enter politics.
From here, we can see some clues, although the family of Lotus Isaka is rich, it is not a political family in Japan, and originally there was no political foundation.
The Democratic Party invited Lianfang entirely because of her excellent image and temperament, bright resume, and most importantly, she had a very high popularity in Japan at that time and was able to bring votes to the Democratic Party.
Fundamentally, Japan's political arena is a ballot game, everyone plays this game according to the rules, the vote is the final criterion, and whoever gets the most votes is the winner.
The first priority of all the parties in Japan is to solicit votes, and the main purpose of their administration is also to solicit votes.
Lotus Boat is a major weapon of the Democratic Party to solicit votes, after entering politics, she has a delicate short hair, often wearing a fitting white suit with a short black skirt, giving people the impression of shrewd and strong.
LianFang is very knowledgeable, the image temperament is better, many years of host work experience has cultivated a good eloquence, in the face of the microphone and camera will not be nervous, words and deeds are generous and decent.
When she appeared as a politician, a whirlwind immediately blew.
In May 2004, Renho officially represented the Democratic Party and appeared for the first time on the stage of the Japanese Senate election, which was her political debut, and no one expected her to become famous in the first battle, and was elected to the Tokyo District Diet with a high vote of 920,000 votes.
Such results are eye-catching, the Democratic Party decided to take advantage of the victory, Pai Lianfang represented the Democratic Party three times in a row to run for the Senate seat, and her vote surged to 1.71 million in a short period of time.
Such a brilliant result has made the Democratic Party enter a carnival state, and Lianfang is naturally the biggest contributor, and her position in the Democratic Party has risen rapidly.
LianFang herself seems to have found her own stage in the political arena, giving full play to her talents, using a beautiful image and outstanding eloquence to display her ambitions on this platform.
Since 2004, She has been a member of the Senate for the Tokyo Ward, and she is also the first Chinese member of the Senate, and in the next few years, she has almost become a spokesperson for the Democratic Party, and she is also actively building a political foundation for her future.
It is not difficult to guess that during this period, her grandmother Chen Xingcun must have had a lot of exchanges with her, after all, in this family, Chen Xingcun and Lianfang are the most outstanding figures, and Chen Xingcun has always been the idol of Lianfang.
He appears frequently on television screens, constantly pinpointing the shortcomings of the times, accusing the ruling party of its mistakes with sharp words, and holding several positions in the Japanese cabinet.
In 2010, the Democratic Party won the general election, Kan Naoto came to power, Andagi made a great contribution, and later served as the "Minister of Administrative Refresh" in the Kan Naoto government, becoming Japan's first Chinese Minister of State.
If Lian Fang in 2004 was a political rookie, by this time she has become an experienced politician, has her own political foundation and ideas, and it is time to start to exert her political ambitions.
At least that's what she herself thinks.
In 2015, LianFang was elected vice chairman of the Democratic Party, and at this time, her political ambitions began to show.
In July 2016, when the Senate was re-elected, Renfang was easily re-elected with a large number of votes, and people urged her to run for mayor of Tokyo. But she said her goal was the ceiling, alluding to her bid for Japan's highest power position: prime minister!
As soon as this remark came out, her political ambitions were completely exposed, and Mu Xiuyu Lin Feng would destroy it. When you stand at the top of the peak, you must understand that there is no cold in the high places!
In order to compete for votes to come to power, the Democratic Party chose to merge with other political parties to form a new political party, the Democratic Progressive Party.
In September 2016, after a fierce internal election, the DPP was elected as the head of the party and launched an attack on the prime minister's throne.
When she blew the trumpet at the Prime Minister's Mansion, she herself became the target of the attack, and at this time, Lotus Fang seemed to be at the peak of her life, but in fact the real battle she had to face had just begun.
Lian Fang seems to have little understanding of the fierceness of such battles, and the first weakness of political enemies attacking her is her nationality. Lianfang has long been exposed to the nationality issue, she has dual Japanese and Taiwanese nationality, and Japanese politicians will be regarded as "disloyal to the country" if they are in this capacity.
After careful discussion, LianFang responded that Japan recognizes the one-China principle, and Taiwan is not a country, so she does not have dual citizenship. She explained that it was because she was not familiar with administrative procedures that she believed that joining Japanese nationality was equivalent to announcing the renunciation of Taiwanese nationality, and she had later entrusted the relevant departments to complete the procedures for renouncing Taiwanese nationality.
Although this kind of words and deeds are legally indisputable, they make people feel a bit forceful, and Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party is very dissatisfied with this.
Lianfang has publicly spoken out that the ownership of the Diaoyu Islands is disputed, claiming that the Diaoyu Islands are Japanese territory. However, after learning of the prime minister's attitude, he immediately changed his mouth and said that "the Diaoyu Islands belong to Japan and are indisputable."
This inconsistent approach has become the handle of political enemies.
As relations between China and Japan deteriorated, Lianfang also began to make unfavorable remarks against China in order to gain political votes. This kind of practice seems to inherit the political tradition of his grandmother Chen Xingcun, eating two ends, whoever is beneficial to him will move closer to whom, and as soon as there is a demand for interests, he will immediately turn his face.
Wanting to add to the guilt, Lian Fang repeatedly contradicted and even made low-level mistakes in public, and it was also turned over by political enemies and even internal colleagues, and attacked vigorously, making her look very embarrassed.
Soon after, LianFang, who has been showing a double harvest in the family business, was exposed to the scandal of marital cheating, and her popularity fell sharply, and the dpp's support rate continued to decline.
In October 2017, Lian Fang resigned after the Democratic Progressive Party lost the Tokyo Metropolitan Government election.
In 2020, Lianfang formally divorced, and then submitted an application to the Senate Affairs Bureau to change the name of "Murata Lianfang", in order to continue to develop in the political arena in the future, she chose to follow her mother's surname and gave up her father's Chinese surname. Since then, her name has become "Saito Lotus Ship".
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, The beautiful woman Chen Xingcun, who originated in Shanghai, took revenge and donated 2 fighter jets to the Japanese army, which was an accomplice of imperialism and an executioner who destroyed peace; many years later, her granddaughter Lianfang even started the idea of sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands for political chips.
At the end of the article, we can see that LianFang himself is a person with clear political purposes, and in order to achieve the goal, he can break through political principles.
But the Japanese political arena is entangled, the water is not only muddy but also very deep, Lotus Is just a pawn in this game, it lacks a deep enough root system, when her use value is not there, it will become an outcast at any time!
What the author wants to say is that we must never forget the past, and we must always remember the tragic history of the Anti-Japanese Resistance. Good neighborliness and friendship, but for such a historically aggressive country, the premise is that you must have enough strength to suppress it.
The most crucial thing is that if you forget the war, you will be in danger, and if you fall behind, you will be beaten!