Re-understanding the "myth" of Japan's post-war rise
After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, China was invaded and plundered by the Japanese, and on this basis, a huge modern industrial system was developed. China is in ruins, almost back to the Stone Age. This is a true portrayal of the strength contrast between China and Japan at the end of World War II and when Japan surrendered. Japan gained great wealth in the war of aggression from 193 1 to 1945. Although it was finally defeated by the allied forces, its local losses were very slight. Economically speaking, Japan gained more and lost less, and was the winner of World War II. This net income also laid the foundation for its post-war economic leap.
However, the cunning Japanese pretended to be victims and refused to pay compensation to China and the invaded countries in Asia. Relying on its ill-gotten wealth plundered for many years, and with the support of the United States, Japan has developed to today's economic strength, and even took out several yen loans from time to time to be a benefactor in front of the China government. The real reason of Japanese so-called "aid to China" loan is a typical fish in troubled waters, that is, when China and the Soviet Union are hostile and China is in a relatively isolated position, it plunders China's valuable resources in large quantities at a very low cost. Who plundered the most coal from China? Who plundered the most oil from China? Who plundered the most rare earths from China? The largest part of China coal and rare earth buried in the sea was plundered from China. The premise of Japanese yen loan is that Japanese equipment must be purchased, and the price is basically determined by the Japanese side. The eliminated garbage equipment has been sold at a sky-high price! Japan's loans to China have achieved extremely high returns. At the same time, they completely denied the guilt of the Holocaust and pushed the debts they owed from left to right, which smacked that there was nothing you could do.
Second, Japan's economic benefits from aggression far exceed its losses from defeat.
Japan is a country with extremely poor resources, with a small area, mountainous areas accounting for 85% and a population of more than 100 million. There are few mineral deposits, but there are huge industries, so almost all food and industrial raw materials need to be imported. During the period from 1937 to 1945, Japan accumulated profound capital and achieved rapid economic development through its free possession of raw materials, grain and labor in China and other Asian countries.
194 1 In September, Liu Jun, commander of the Japanese invaders, wrote: "Isn't it a harsh fact that not only local troops (referring to the Japanese invaders) have to rely on the mainland to survive, but also the resources of Japanese general mobilization have to come from China?" The purpose of this letter is to maintain the stability of China's anti-Japanese forces before going south, but it also shows that the Japanese at that time really made a living by sucking the blood of China people. 193 1 year, the Japanese occupied three provinces in northeast China, which are rich in resources. Later, it occupied the vast land in North China, East China and South China, established the traitor regime of Manchukuo and Wang Jingwei, controlled almost all mines, factories and rural areas in China, and plundered China's resources with China's labor force.
Japan's plunder of China is described in the article "Japan's invasion and plunder is the direct cause of poverty in China". I won't go into details here, but mainly summarize Japan's exploitation of Southeast Asian countries.
194 1 year, Japan formulated the administrative implementation points of the occupied territories in the south, the main contents of which include:
1) The occupying forces collected important national defense resources from the occupied areas for Japan's deployment;
2) The occupying forces must take raw products from the fields to support themselves; 3) The materials in the occupied area are transported to Japan by ships requisitioned by the navy and army;
4) The occupying forces take over and manage the railways, ships, ports, aviation, telecommunications and postal services in the occupied areas. The following year, the Japanese Cabinet passed the Decision on Economic Treatment in the South, and formulated Japan's policy towards the occupied areas. In addition to the above, it is emphasized that the development of occupied areas must be undertaken by enterprises designated by the Japanese government. Designated enterprises mainly include Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Furukawa, Nikko and other chaebol.
Subsequently, the Japanese issued unlimited paper money in Southeast Asia, such as Nanfa Treasury vouchers and military tickets, and collected them thoroughly. The main agricultural products in Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and other places were originally sugar, tobacco leaves and coffee. But the Japanese ordered them to switch to rice and corn. At the same time, almost all the rice produced in Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar was levied as military food or shipped back to Japan. Later, when the war was at a disadvantage, in order to reverse the defeat, the Japanese plundered China and occupied areas even more rampant. From the end of 1944 to the end of 1945, more than two million Vietnamese farmers starved to death.
Japan exploited China, Southeast Asia and Pacific countries in such a cruel way, which led to its own economic take-off. The plundered wealth is quickly transformed into productive forces. For example, from the fixed value, Japan's GNP increased by 10.7% in 1943 and10/%in 1944. In 1937, the Japanese steel output was 5.8 million tons, and in 1943, it reached 7.8 million tons, and the production capacity reached13 million tons. Commercial shipbuilding has increased from 238,000 tons per year in194/kloc-0 to1850,000 tons in 1944 (including predatory transportation). 1942 completed a 64000-ton battleship and six small aircraft carriers. 1944 completed a tonnage higher than this100000 tons. Aircraft production increased from 700 per month in 1942 to more than 2,500 per month in 1944.
The above series of data show that Japan became stronger and stronger in the Vietnam War before the allied forces obtained the bomber base in Mariana Islands. There is a simple reason. Relying on cruel plunder, the whole Japanese nation lived a vampire life with free food, free clothes and raw materials, and had hundreds of millions of slaves. More than two million Japanese invaders not only don't need to provide food and grass at home, but also can transport the food, resources and labor of the conquered countries back to China to the maximum extent without worrying about the life of the plunderers. Japan used to spend money on raw materials and food, but now it is free. A huge fleet with a gross tonnage of over100000 tons shuttled between the occupied countries and Japan, bringing back materials continuously, which greatly promoted the industrial strength. Allied attacks on Japanese merchant ships greatly reduced their ability to transport plundered goods, which led to a sharp decline in their industrial production in 1945 due to lack of raw materials and insufficient start-up. However, as pointed out earlier, due to the small scale of bombing the Japanese island, this decline is not the loss of production capacity (equipment and labor) and materials.
After the defeat, the Japanese have been complaining about how to eat enough. In fact, before the war, the average daily food calorie of Japanese was 2000 calories, 1.944 years, and then it dropped to 1.900 calories. By the time they surrendered, there were still 65,438+0,680 calories. At that time, the shipping between Japan and Southeast Asia had been basically interrupted, and these foods were mainly brought back from China. How many people in China starved to death? When Japan surrendered, there were still 9,000 fighter planes and more than 5 million troops, ready to fight to the death with the landing American troops. The intention was that the latter had to compromise with Japan because of too many casualties, so that Japan could keep some of its gains, such as the Northeast. However, the atomic bomb made the Japanese emperor realize that surrender is slightly better than "Japan is completely extinct, as long as the seeds are still there, there is still light for revival."
The Potsdam Proclamation made it clear that Japan was not allowed to own military enterprises, but after Japan surrendered, it quickly destroyed all important documents and turned all military industries into civilian use, thus escaping the fate that should have been disintegrated. Later, for its "global strategy", the United States not only prevented the injured countries from claiming compensation from Japan, but also released most Class A war criminals to return to politics and fostered Japan's monopoly capital, thus releasing Japan's accumulated potential in predatory wars. By the 1960s, Japan ranked first, second and third in shipbuilding, automobile and steel respectively. In the following decades, instead of paying China a penny, Japan built tall buildings for itself and lived the life of a rich man in the world.
3. Conclusion: Many people who do wrong will not commit suicide. Japan's exploitation of China and other Asian countries made Japan gain huge wealth, which led to its rapid economic expansion in the decade from 1930 to 1940. Contrary to popular belief, Japan was not seriously damaged by the nine-month limited bombing by the allied forces. The above data indisputably illustrate this point, thus revealing a secret of Japan's post-war economic take-off, and the wealth plundered by Japan is the source of its post-war economic growth. The difference between Japan and other western countries after the war is that it is the country that plunders the most, loses the least and does not compensate the victims. Japan should have dismantled its industry to compensate for part of its debts and then repaid the rest in installments, but the United States let it evade its responsibilities. Japan is like a robber robbing a house. He killed and set fire to countless treasures. Because of the protection of the bandits (the United States, colluding with Japan to annex the Philippines and Korea respectively and encouraging Japan to launch the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895), he kept all the robbery proceeds, and immediately took out these treasures to invest and do business, and began to launder money and make a fortune. In this sense, the essence of Japan's economic miracle is extremely cruel plunder.
The report said: talent! Many engineering talents trained by Japan with huge military expenditure before the war. In wartime, most of the Japanese soldiers sent to the front to fight were 14, 5-year-old baby soldiers and liberal arts students. And the most uneducated people. The tens of thousands of engineering students who have been preserved have become the foundation of Japan's post-war economic take-off.
Plunder! After the Japanese army captured Nanjing, most Japanese soldiers and officers wore 50-200 gold rings on their belts. ; Spamming military tickets! Use a piece of unquestionable paper to extract China people and engage in financial fraud. /kloc-After September 0/8, Japan used the "Manchukuo Central Bank" to issue a large number of so-called "Manchukuo Yuan" counterfeit money in Manchukuo. 1in March, 938, Beiping established China United Reserve Bank to issue pseudo-interbank bonds, and Shanghai established pseudo-central reserve bank to issue "Huaxing bonds". 194 1 year, 1 year, Nanjing established a "pseudo-central reserve bank" and issued "certificates of deposit".
At that time, Japan's military expenditure in the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War totaled 755.9 billion yen. (Calculated according to the consumer price index, it is about 170 trillion yen or more), and Japan used the above-mentioned banks controlled at that time to plunder tariffs in China when the Japanese government did not use the national treasury expenditure at all. At the end of the war, the inflation in North China was 130 times higher than that in Japan.
Make counterfeit money! At that time, the Ninth Institute of Technology and the Third Division, the secret organs of the Japanese army, were engaged in manufacturing counterfeit banknotes of the Republic of China. The total amount of counterfeit banknotes is 4 billion yuan. 1937 When the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the amount of counterfeit money issued was14.8 billion yuan. From War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to the fall of Wuhan, the annual military expenditure of the former China National Government totaled10-1500 million yuan. And its management cost is only 700 million yuan. The total amount does not exceed 2.5 billion yuan.
Madness and opium plunder! From pre-war to 1945. Japan's total opium revenue to China is 420 million yen. Before the defeat, Japanese plunder was even more rampant. According to the biography of Aijue Luo Hao (Pujie's wife), before Soviet troops entered Manchuria, a large amount of gold bullion from Manchuria was airlifted to Japan. According to the Secret Records of the Peace Talks in China by Asahi Shimbun reporter Okubo Taide, on August 1945+02, the Japanese army loaded boxes of gold at the Bank of Zheng Jin Shanghai Branch, and the destroyers of the Japanese Navy's Songhu Fleet were transported to Japan. At the end of September of the same year, General Okamura Ningji, commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, handed over only 3 tons of gold to He Qinying, a former national government who came to receive it. And announced that the whereabouts of the rest of the gold were unknown. The capital of the Liberal Party and the political center of the Japanese Conservative Party were funded by diamonds and platinum brought back from Chinese mainland by Zhang Liangxiong Eryu, a Japanese naval agency in Shanghai. According to the account of Nobu Nobuo, the party concerned, "15 August, I used the plane of Asahi Shimbun to transport a large number of valuable materials to Japan. Mainly choose those light things such as gold bars, diamonds, platinum, jade and so on. The main reason is that the plane is overloaded and can't fly. "
War money! Throughout World War II, Japan's domestic wealth was not consumed, but grew rapidly. 1937, Japan's gross national product (GDP) was only $6.66 billion. At that time, the GDP of the former National Government of China was $654.38+$03.6 billion (estimated value). However, during the war of 1944, the total GDP of Japan was175 billion US dollars. The Japanese Magic Created by War, which has nearly tripled, once again shows the power of plunder. In just seven years of war, the total GDP of the country has been achieved, which will take decades to complete. What a brilliant war of aggression against China. Pacific War. After the war, Japan accurately counted its own losses, as small as a painting and calligraphy. The avenue for building houses. The conclusion is that the average national wealth loss is 25.4%, which is far lower than that of war-torn countries in Asia, especially China. In addition, due to the specific situation in Asia at that time, China gave up war reparations. Other small countries, under the threat of American arrogance, are worried about being sanctioned by the United States. So they all gave up compensation one after another with China. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, China was invaded and plundered by the Japanese, and on this basis, a huge modern industrial system was developed. China is in ruins, almost back to the Stone Age. This is a true portrayal of the strength contrast between China and Japan at the end of World War II and when Japan surrendered. Japan gained great wealth in the war of aggression from 193 1 to 1945. Although it was finally defeated by the allied forces, its local losses were very slight. Economically speaking, Japan gained more and lost less, and was the winner of World War II. This net income also laid the foundation for its post-war economic leap.
Japan's history is a history of aggression and killing, and Japan's economy is an economy of plunder and extraction. However, it will not die automatically until we have the strength and determination to end its evil history; Before we have the strength to recover the plundered wealth, the Japanese will thrive on the blood of the people of China. If we understand this, we will not forget the crisis we are facing and the historical responsibility we shoulder.