In 1938, with the progress of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Japan also began its own "southward expansion" plan, and the occupation of Hainan Island was also put on the agenda of the Japanese army.
With regard to the occupation of Hainan Island, Japan's principle was to emulate Taiwan's colonial means and turn Hainan Island into Japan's overseas colony and strategic supply place. Guided by this policy, the Japanese finally launched an attack on Hainan Island on February 10, 1939.
Under the command of Lieutenant General Nobutake Kondo, commander of the Japanese Fifth Fleet, and Lieutenant General Riki Ando, commander of the 21st Army, the Taiwan Mixed Brigade quickly occupied important ports and towns on Hainan Island after landing in Haikou, and attacked the center of Hainan Island in turn, and finally by March 1940, occupied most of Hainan Island except for the county seat of Baisha County.
Because the purpose of the Japanese occupation of Hainan Island was to turn it into another overseas colony, the so-called "well-being of seeking people's livelihood" was put forward, and while massacring the anti-Japanese people, it also stepped up the work of co-opting the traitors to carry out propaganda.
In the album "South Branch Dispatch Army" published by the Japanese army in 1940, it was written: "The residents of Hainan Island are very docile and simple. Because he has lived a leisurely life on the island for a long time, he does not have the flamboyant personality of Cantonese people. As soon as you treat them a little better, they immediately change their attitude towards you and thank you, which is very similar to the Japanese. ”
However, after the "praise", the Japanese turned sharply, "When our warriors took the boat, drew their swords in front of the enemy and landed bravely." The machine guns of the Japanese army sounded, and the history of Hainan Island entered a new chapter! ”
The photographs we see today are of some of the photographs in the album about the Japanese army on Hainan Island together with the traitors who defected to the Japanese.
From the photos, we can see that when the Japanese and the Pseudo-Japanese propaganda carried out propaganda, they not only preached "Sino-Japanese goodwill" to the people, but also threw coins at the people. However, what they issued was not real money, but the Japanese army forcibly implemented military tickets like waste paper on Hainan Island.
At that time, after the Japanese army occupied Hainan Island, in order to smoothly collect the resources and food on the island, the purpose of the Japanese military ticket was to achieve the goal of feeding the war with war. In order to ensure that military tickets can be smoothly circulated on Hainan Island, the Japanese army has rigidly stipulated the exchange rate between military tickets and legal tender, and stipulated that "military tickets that are rumored and slandered and obstructed in use should be regarded as traitors in accordance with military laws, and vigorously investigated and taken, and severely punished." ”