It can be said that at that time, Japanese life was very comfortable and rich, even enviable. But after the war broke out, this situation changed completely.
1936, Hirota Hiroshi officially came to power to form a cabinet with the support of the Japanese military department, marking the formal establishment of the Japanese fascist regime and the formation of the Asian war source of the Second World War. The following year, Japan launched a war of aggression against China and entered a state of war. Due to the stubborn resistance of Japanese troops from China, Japan fell into the quagmire of the war against China.
Japan is a small country, lacking in resources and having a very thin foundation. Before long, its foreign exchange reserves were exhausted and its finances began to make ends meet. Since Japan cannot borrow money from abroad, it can only find a way from the domestic people. In order to support the front line, the Japanese began to scrimp and save, and people took out their savings to buy government bonds. But it didn't take long for the Japanese to have any savings and live a tight life.
Having no money is not terrible, but you can manage it by scrimping and saving. The problem is that the war of aggression launched by Japan is a bottomless pit. With the increasing scale of the war, the gap between the Japanese government's financial resources and resources is also growing. In order to maintain the war, Japan concentrated all domestic resources on the military, and increased the plunder of domestic people, even the rations of Japanese nationals were requisitioned.
People in the city can no longer eat snow-white rice. Even if the conditions are better, they can only eat some brown rice mixed with coarse grains. Farmers in rural areas are even worse. Basically, the food they have worked so hard to grow will be handed over to the state, and they can only eat coarse grains and wild vegetables. Winter is coming, and many Japanese farmers who have not eaten or drunk can't survive the cold winter at all. So people starve to death in many parts of rural Japan every year.
Not only are Japanese starving, but daily necessities are also very scarce. Due to the rationing system, Japanese citizens have no money and can only get a small amount of inferior goods. Most of the clothes distributed by the Japanese are rough clothes made of waste cotton cloth mixed with wood pulp and bark.
This kind of clothing is very fragile and uncomfortable to wear, but it is not easy to get a suit because some people don't even have clothes. As for daily necessities such as sugar, oil and soap, they are completely luxuries for the Japanese. In the late World War II, in order to meet the fuel demand of warships, the Japanese government requisitioned all the soybean oil cooked by ordinary people, and ordinary people could only cook with water.
The iron fence in the park, the manhole cover on the roadside, and even the radio and door panels at home were requisitioned. In fact, it is meaningless for the Japanese government to requisition or not, because most people don't even have a place to live. As a result of allied bombing, a large number of houses were destroyed, and many people had to live in dirty and smelly sewers and live with rats. At that time, the Japanese life can be imagined.
What they can't stand is that they don't have any freedom and power, and they can't do anything except work for the country. Even if it is not pulled to the front as cannon fodder, it is necessary to carry out long-term and long-term boring work in the rear like a robot, endure torture and serve the so-called "jihad" of the Great Japanese Empire.
Therefore, "Manchuria" has become a paradise in the eyes of the Japanese. They all dream of going to Manchuria, because Manchukuo is simply a paradise promoted by the Japanese military department. Is this really the case? The answer is of course not. Manchuria at that time was not much better than the Japanese. But Manchuria has the peace they long for.
After all, if there is no war, maybe they will live a better life and will not be reduced to displacement and starvation. But in any case, they all participated in Japan's foreign aggression, whether actively or passively, and they all acted as accomplices of Japanese imperialism. Even if they are hungry and bombed, they don't deserve people's sympathy.
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The internal environment of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and Japan:
Japanese economic crisis
1929, 10 In June, the economic crisis that began in the United States swept the whole capitalist world. Japan suffered heavy losses in the crisis, the national economy suffered losses, gold continued to flow out, industry shrank, and agriculture was in a hurry. In order to get rid of the deep troubles caused by the world economic crisis and divert domestic attention, the Japanese empire embarked on the road of aggression, and Japanese militarists stepped up their established policy of aggression against China.
international environment
After the September 18th Incident, profound and complicated changes have taken place in the international situation. In particular, the investigation teams of major countries investigated the bombing of the Nanman Railway and demanded that the country adopt a policy of appeasement against Japan's invasion of China, which objectively condoned the development and interconnection of world fascist forces.
The government of China placed its hopes on the League of Nations, the largest international organization in the world at that time. However, at this time, Western politicians mainly focused on the European battlefield and did not lend a helping hand to China. The appeasement policy of the League of Nations made Japan no longer afraid of the international community. It sent a wrong signal to Japan, and Japan, which tasted the sweetness, went further and further on the road of aggression. ?
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