In 1931, Japan entered China, and in 1945, Japan withdrew its troops, and for 14 years, the Chinese people were humiliated and oppressed. In addition to killing the Chinese, Japan also took a large amount of property from China. The perennial war was hugely costly, but after the war, Japan became an economic power in only 6 years, and they relied on the goods they took, so how much did Japan take in China in 14 years?
First, let's look at gold, a special currency recognized around the world. During the Japanese operation, they have been secretly carrying out the "Golden Lily Project". Overseeing the looting and concealment of these "booty" were Emperor Hirohito's brothers Hirohito's brothers Tsunehito Chichibu Miya, Takahito Mikasa, and cousin Takeda Miyagi Hirotoku. Although there are no exact figures, the American writer Stirling West Greif, who once studied this time, mentioned in his work "The Golden Samurai" that japan transported up to 6,000 tons of gold from Nanjing. As for the gold shipped away from the country, it is as high as 21,000 tons. The bank's treasury and the rich man's private possession were all snatched away by the Japanese gendarmes, not even the gold teeth on the corpse. Some of this gold was transported directly by water from Hong Kong, and the other part was transported to the northeast, where it was unified into gold bricks and transported back to Japan by train.
Japan is a country with few resources, and military salaries have become the biggest problem they face in the more than a decade of conquest. China is a big agricultural country, and Japan has plundered at least 800 million tons of grain from China. Some of this grain was left at home to supply the Japanese soldiers in China, and some of it was transported to other Japanese battlefields. Due to the domestic men's nesting, only women are left in Japan, and many of these foods have entered their stomachs.
China's mineral resources are a treasure that Japan has coveted for a long time, and the property left to us by our ancestors has thus fallen into the hands of Japan. According to preliminary statistics, Japan has transported about 640 million tons of coal from China, as high as 700 million square meters of trees, about 200 million tons of rare earths, about 1.5 tons of kaolin, and about 490 million tons of copper ore.
At that time, many factories had been opened in Wuxi, Wuhu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Shanghai and other places. Japan organized sweeps of the whole city, looted all shops and factories, and transported all the equipment and products of the spinning and iron mills back to Japan.
The most distressing thing is the cultural relics, and the cultural relics looted by Japan can no longer be measured by the amount of money. Various artifacts worth billions of dollars. Today, more than 1,000 museums in Japan house at least 2 million Chinese artifacts. Fossil Peking man skulls were lost in the war, and many scholars suspect that the artifact was transported to Japan.
After Japan's defeat in the war, the looted belongings were not returned according to the rules. On the contrary, it could not be covered by a pair of invisible hands. It is only strange that the United States, which has always prided itself on loving its people, did not ask Japan for any compensation for the prisoners of war and laborers who suffered so much in their own country after the war.