Speaking of Japan during World War 2, as a Chinese must have thought of the great harm caused by Japan to China's territory and Chinese people. But Japan's evil deeds are not only in China, but also in other countries that have been brutally treated by the Japanese invaders, such as the Philippines, which we are going to mention today.
Japan did no less harm to the Philippines during World War II than to China. We all know that the Philippines is a small country, and their population is certainly much smaller than that of China, but in such a small country, the number of People Killed by Japan has reached an outrageous level. According to the survey, there is a city in the Philippines called Manila, where Japanese soldiers have maimed 100,000 people. Just one city killed and injured 100,000 people, and it is conceivable that the Philippines had a large number of casualties that year.
In the bloody storm of that year, Japanese soldiers also carried out inhumane massacres on the south bank of the Bashi River in the Philippines, and the Japanese seemed to be extremely keen on massacring civilians. In later statistics, the Philippines killed and injured at least a million people during World War 2. Such a big injury, such a big casualty, the Philippines demanded $8 billion in reparations from Japan after the war.
The claim for this reparations was the then President of the Philippines, ElPidio. Kirino, ElPidio During World War 2, his wife and three daughters were killed by the Japanese army, this kind of unspeakable vendetta, how could the president easily let Japan go.
Therefore, the president has never given up asking japan for reparations, and in his view, not only the lives of his wife and children have been trampled by the Japanese, but his own people should also be compensated by the Japanese. Coupled with the series of post-maintenance of national buildings damaged during the war, all of which required money, Japan had to pay for its sins.
But at that time, Japan simply did not have the strength to repay such a huge debt, so Japan rejected the Philippine president's request. Japan thinks you can take me as long as I don't promise you what to do? Who knew that the Philippine president was really an iron fist, and there were 80,000 Japanese prisoners of war in the Philippines at that time. The President of the Philippines responded directly after receiving the message that the Japanese refused to pay reparations, and if Japan did not pay reparations, 80,000 Japanese would be executed. Japan thought they were just threatening, and who knew that the Philippine president immediately ordered the execution of 14 Japanese prisoners. Japan knew that the Philippines was not talking about playing.
But we also have to be realistic, at that time let Japan pay such a huge amount of compensation, Japan really can't come up with it, but after much coordination with the United States, the Philippines and Japan reached a final compensation agreement. Japan promised $550 million in damages and $250 million as a construction fund for the Philippines.
The reparations were eventually agreed upon, but ElPidio was no longer the president of the Philippines, and the new Philippine president, Ferdinand, took over the reparations. Later, if anyone who knew Filipino politics had heard about it, Ferdinand did not put the reparations into practice. He enriched the reparations for his own splurge, and the people of the Philippines did not end up getting the compensation they deserved from the war.