军歌是与军国主义结合最密切的文艺形式之一。自明治维新以来,军歌便成为日军军队生活中一环,发挥着特殊的作用。日本每次发动对外战争,军歌都会得到跨越性的发展,在全面侵华战争中,得益于时势,军歌挤压其他歌曲,逐渐占据了乐坛的主流地位。在战争实践中,军歌不仅起到振奋日军精神、颂扬日军战绩的作用,而且重视鼓吹所谓的亚洲主义,来宣扬侵略战争的“合理性”。其传播范围不限于军队,也在当时的社会上广为流传,起着普遍宣扬军国主义的作用。而军歌的精神内涵,与《军人敕谕》等文件相契合,有着自己鲜明的特点。~① The military song is one of the most literary and art forms combined with militarism. Since the Meiji Restoration, military songs have become a part of the Japanese army’s life and play a special role. Every time Japan launched a foreign war, its military songs would have enjoyed a leapfrog development. In the war on all-out invasion of China, thanks to the current situation, the military songs squeezed other songs and gradually occupied the mainstream of the music scene. In the practice of war, the military song not only played the role of boosting the Japanese military’s spirit and praising the Japanese military record, but also attached great importance to advocating so-called Asianism in order to publicize the “rationality” of the war of aggression. The scope of its spread was not limited to the military. It was also widely circulated in the society at that time and played a role of universally promoting militarism. The spirit of the military connotation, and “Military Encyclical” and other documents fit, has its own distinct characteristics. ~ ①