People all know that when a war is fought, economic strength is fought, and at the time of the invasion of China, Japan's economic strength was stronger than China's; in particular, during the First World War, Japan reaped the benefits of the fish, and when the European countries were powerless to look east, Japan seized the opportunity to invade China.
Japan in the First World War, a lot of war wealth, Japan's trade exports surge, manufacturing is also desperately developing, Japan gradually from an agricultural country to an industrial country, into industrialization, its steel production increased greatly, the national economy is prosperous.
However, such a good situation is not long, with the outbreak of the world economic crisis, the Japanese economy has also declined sharply, the most obvious performance is agricultural products, in Europe and the United States there has been a phenomenon of pouring milk, although there is no such scene in Japan, but the crisis is more serious.
Japanese farmers are the most unlucky, and a strange phenomenon has appeared in the countryside, and the more abundant the farmers, the more they can't eat. Because rice is sold too cheaply, and the money sold is not enough to pay taxes, there is a strange thing that the harvest is getting worse and worse.
According to The History of Social Phenomena in Japan, "Rice growers rarely eat rice, and there are very few days of rice, and there are only forty or fifty days a year when they can eat rice." "So what do Japanese farmers eat when they can't afford to eat rice?"
The young and strong young adults in the village generally eat millet, potatoes, etc., rice can only be eaten by children and sick elderly people, for rural youth, if you want to eat a bowl of rice, you must join the army, only in the army can you eat rice for free.
In addition to this strange thing, there is another strange thing, that is, there are no young girls in the japanese countryside, so that almost all the young girls in the village are men. Because of their poverty, these girls will be sold for about 100 yen.
The reason for selling girls is very simple, that is, they can't feed, and it is better to sell these girls than to starve at home, and most of these girls who are sold have become prostitutes, and the end is very miserable, which actually reflects the big problems in the Japanese economy.
In order to divert domestic contradictions, the Japanese army launched an all-out war of aggression against China, transferring the crisis to China, the Japanese army wantonly snatched materials in the occupied areas, and the people's livelihood in Japan was withering, but the spirit of "Bushido" was publicized.
Many Japanese soldiers who were brainwashed by the spirit of "Bushido" swore to die, where do these soldiers know that in fact, since the emergence of these strange phenomena, there has been a problem with the Japanese economy, and under such circumstances, foreign aggression is doomed to failure.