The Second World War was a catastrophe for all mankind, nearly sixty countries were affected and affected by the war, and Japan, as one of the initiators of the Second World War, suffered countless casualties, and the population dropped sharply after the war. We all know that population size is crucial to a country's development, so if you want to develop an economy, the first thing to rebuild a country is to restore the population, so after the end of World War II, all countries urgently need to recuperate.
Japan's small size and small population made the economy on the brink of collapse after World War II, and restoring the population was the first priority, but no matter how many measures the government promulgated to encourage fertility, it had little effect. The Soviet Union was the fastest growing country in the post-war period, so Japan decided to follow the Soviet Union's approach to increasing the rate of population growth, when the Soviet Union stipulated that the age of marriage and childbirth for women was sixteen years old, and Japan was even more so.
In order to quickly restore the population in a short period of time, Japan lowered the age of marriage and childbearing for women to thirteen years old, so many female students were forced to drop out of school and marry and have children, and at that time, it was also stipulated that each family must have five children, so these female students became pawns of the state, and could only sacrifice their own freedom and happiness, and have been having children, shouldering the burden of the family, and harming all the female students at that time.
Thirteen-year-olds should have been in school and enjoyed carefree childhood, and they should have been loved and cared for by their parents at home, but the consequences of the war were borne by them. Although Japan's population quickly recovered to 100 million after the war, it was too unfair to countless girls to exchange their youth and happiness for them.