Japan, a country with a small footprint, has relations with China dating back a long time. Historically, the Tang Dynasty was the height of our national strength, when Japan was still religiously sending people to study. It can be said that their development process lags a long way behind our country, and the pace of the country has accelerated since the Meiji Restoration.
Through this restoration, Japan's economic development rose steadily, and then it found that its country's local resources were small and insufficient to support development, so it began to provoke aggression everywhere. It can be found from the Sino-Japanese War that when China closed its doors, Japan was no longer the small country that paid tribute. Perhaps many people do not believe it, but the world's first modern aircraft carrier was produced by Japan, so even during the Sino-Japanese War, Japan developed rapidly, the Qing government was far from being an opponent, and Japan's various modern weapons have been increasing since then, which is why little Japan can become one of the Axis powers of World War II.
Fortunately, this world war ended in the victory of the Allies, Japan and other fascist countries can only declare surrender, like Germany has accumulated a lot of reparations after two consecutive major wars, Japan is slightly better, the main battlefield is in our territory, after the war because of other aspects of the entanglement, we directly exempted them from reparations, but the ships used by the Japanese side during the war can no longer be recovered by them. After some deliberation, the Allies decided to draw a lottery of more than a hundred Japanese ships involved in the war, including destroyers, coastal defense ships, and so on. In fact, among the countries participating in the lottery, perhaps only our country is slightly happier, after all, at that time, our side was quite backward in this regard, even if these ships were not small in the war, but there was always no strong, and other countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom that participated in the lottery did not look at these things at all.
These hundreds of ships were numbered separately according to different criteria, and fortunately, our country was the most prominent in this lottery, with a total of thirty-four ships drawn, and these ships performed relatively well, and our representatives were satisfied. These ships were brought back to China and all put into the navy. In addition to our own, some of the ships drawn by the Soviet Union also came in handy. The fate of the ships drawn by the United States was not so good, only some of their parts were given the opportunity to "re-enter the post", and the least rare should be the British, because all the ships they pumped were blown up, and the British had no intention of using these crap.
Think about the rarity of these ships in those years, and then look at the strength of our country today, although the great cause of national rejuvenation is obstructed and long, but everything is progressing steadily, and the days of envying others in the past will no longer exist.