1933年7月,曾经发生过一起东北青帮组团访问日本的事件,该事件的导演是在东北的日本人团体和关东军,正是他们策划并促成了青帮代表团访日计划的实行。面对“九一八”事变后东北政治格局的变化,一些青帮头目投日本人和关东军所好,谎称青帮为宗教团体,积极参与关东军的伪满洲国建设。这个颇有荒诞剧意味的事件说明,战前日本对中国社会的认识远不像一般所说的那么深透。如同日本学者野村浩一的反省:日本在近代的失败,就是其中国认识的失败。 In July 1933, there was an incident in which a group of northeast Green Gangs were scheduled to visit Japan. The incident was directed at Japanese groups and the Kwangtung Army in the northeast. They planned and facilitated the implementation of the plan for the delegation to visit Japan by the Green Gang. In the face of the changes in the northeast political pattern after the “September 18” Incident, some of the leaders of the Green Gangs have voted well for the Japanese and the Kwantung Army and falsely claimed that the Youth League is a religious group and actively participated in the construction of the puppet Manchukuo of the Kwantung Army. This rather absurd drama suggests that pre-war Japan’s understanding of Chinese society is far from what it has generally said. As the Japanese scholar Koichi Koichi’s reflection: Japan’s failure in modern times is the failure of its understanding of China.