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Size:Length:13 x Width:13 x Height:48.6 (cm)

Size description：模型37×8.5×8.5（底座11.4×12×12）

Introduction：Kishi Etsuro, President of Dai Ko Sha (Japan Gangsters), presented the statue on the day of the tenth anniversary of the death of Chiang Kai-shek, in 1985. The solid bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek, dressed in a tunic suit and holding a walking stick, is raised on a wooden base inlaid with a bronze plaque inscribed with the words "Returning Good for Evil; Four Acts of Forgiveness," "The Building Commission of Votive Statue of Honoring Chiang Kai-shek's Grace; With all those willing from all of us in Japan 1985," and the lower part, "Political Association Dai Ko Sha."
Dai Ko Sha is a political association (party) established in Taisho 13 (1924) by president Shimizu Konosuke and advisers Gotou Shinpei, Tokugawa Yoshichika, and Kita Ikki. Mitsukawa Kametarou named the party "Dai Ko," in allusion to the words "the most powerful act never mind small matters" in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian: Basic Annals of Xiang Yu. Later, the party had once become inactive. In Showa 56 (1981), it revived again, belonging to right-wing political party in Japan, and has published monthly The Roars, which was named for the meaning "making a thundering roar," from the novel Water Margin, to wake up silent mass to upholding social justice. Members of Dai Ko Sha. built another bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Hutou Mountain, Taoyuan, and inscribed the statue with the words "Return Good for Evil; Let Bygones be Bygones." Many Japanese came to visit the statue and called it "Dai Ko Sha's Monument to Chiang Kai-shek."

The terms "returning good for evil and four acts of forgiveness" refer to Chiang Kai-shek's support of the maintenance of Tennosei (Imperial Family system), being against the segmentation of Japan, rapid repatriation of Japanese prisoners of war and other specific measures, and giving up claims for reparations in Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty signed by both sides in 1952, after the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Accession Number:CR07500100

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