Japan became rich because of the war, and it also became depressed because of the war! There have also been incidents of buying and selling women in Japanese history, when there was not a single young girl in the village, and it occurred during the Japanese invasion of China.
Before World War I, through the "Meiji Restoration", Japan underwent great changes in the country, began to embark on the road of modern industrial countries, and gradually became stronger in economic and military terms. Japan is an island nation with few resources and no territorial expansion. The rulers set their sights on China, which was close to Japan and had a vast land.
During World War I, under the pretext of declaring war on Germany, Japan captured the entire line of Qingdao and Jiaoji railways and controlled Shandong Province. In January 1919, after the end of the war, Britain, Japan and other imperialist countries held a conference in Paris, China's diplomacy failed at this meeting, Japan gained a lot of rights and interests in China, and also made a "windfall" in the First World War, and the Japanese economy also experienced a rare prosperity in history.
Rights and interests in Shandong and other places did not satisfy Japan's ambitions, and Japan's economic prosperity was short-lived. In 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake of magnitude 7.9 occurred in Japan, and the seismic zone happened to be an important industrial area in Japan, and the losses were heavy. Japan's economy has been hit hard, prices have plummeted, and the lives of the people at the bottom have been even more difficult.
In 1931, "villages without maidens" appeared in Japan. Previously, there had always been a phenomenon of male superiority over female inferiority in Japan, and in Yamagata Prefecture in the Tohoku region, the grain harvest was poor, and farmers had to sell their daughters for money and make ends meet. According to historical records, as long as the village was a girl between fifteen and sixteen and twenty-four or five years old, all of them were sold to other places as prostitutes or married to other places. At that time, women were sad, the average value of each woman was only 50-100 yen, and in the Aomori area, the price was even lower, and a woman was only worth 9 yen.
Women are sold elsewhere, men go to join the army, only the army can eat imperial food, do not have to worry about survival. The economic crisis in japan has caused headaches for Japan's rulers. Once again, they set their sights on China, wanting to plunder resources through war and change the economic situation at home. So they launched the "918 Incident" and began a war of aggression against China.
The war did not change the status quo, but increased the burden on the people at the bottom. As we all know, war consumes enormous human, financial and material resources. Part of the reason for the 226 Mutiny, the largest rebellion in Japan's modern history, was that the officers at the bottom had been squeezed for a long time and had difficulty surviving before they rose up to resist. With the continuous aggression of Japanese imperialism, the life of the people at the bottom of Japan has become increasingly difficult. Japan's upper class and rulers, who turn a blind eye to the hardships of ordinary people, compete with each other for power and profit, and exploit ordinary people. The mutiny ended in failure, and all those who rebelled were executed.
After the all-out invasion of China, military expenditures will be even higher, where will the money come from? Of course, it is to scrape the people's fat and the people's ointment, the life of the people at the bottom is already difficult, and now it is even worse and bitter. The domestic economic depression is impossible to support the Japanese army to fight for a long time, and Japan's defeat is not accidental, it is inevitable!