On February 18, 1972, a group of Japanese monks forcibly broke into the Imperial Palace in order to threaten the Emperor to retract the previously promulgated "Meat Ban"; the emperor's previous call for meat eating was an act of ethical loss in the eyes of the old forces. The outcome of the forced invasion of the Japanese Imperial Palace was, of course, tragic, with some directly killed and the rest wounded and sentenced. 、
But this also reflects the Japanese people's entanglement in the issue of eating meat at that time, in the previous Japanese rice was considered the most holy food, eating rice is also a status symbol. Samurai courtiers have also always been rice; due to the fact that animal husbandry was almost absent in ancient Japan, coupled with the blessing of religious power, the Japanese were forbidden to eat meat, that is, some fishermen could eat some parallel goods. In Japan, it is not that the people are not allowed to eat meat, even the emperor general samurai Daimyo can not eat meat, so why is little Japan now seems to be malnutrition caused by the national nutrition can not meet the physical requirements; meat, eggs and milk and other high-protein and high-fat foods are very important for human development.
In modern Japan, the question of what to eat has been struggling, the status of vegetarian food has been partially shaken, and the physical fitness of the people has been improved to a certain extent. After the war, Japan's economic boom was liberated under the guidance of healthy diet, and the average height of Japanese men reached 170.7cm, which has exceeded the average height of Asian men. From ancient times to modern times, the average height of Japanese people is indeed less than 150cm. After the meiji restoration introduced an enlightened culture, Japanese talent gradually changed from small to large. Problems like eating meat were just one of many in Japan's Meiji Restoration.
Since the founding of the Meiji Restoration, the Meiji government has repeatedly sent hundreds of observation missions of executives to Western countries to study while dealing with domestic contradictions. In 1871, he made an expedition to 12 Western countries. Travel costs were 2% of Japan's GDP that year, and I was shocked by the development of Western civilization; after returning, a radical modernization campaign began. The government paid for the establishment of new enterprises to introduce advanced Western technology and take over the industrial and mining enterprises of the shogunate and various domains. It was transformed and expanded to build infrastructure such as railways, shipping, postal services, telegraphs and telephone systems on a large scale throughout the country. When the state improved the operation of the factories, it sold them to large merchants at a very low price, and the price was symbolic, equivalent to a free gift.
Small folk workshops like Mitsubishi Honda Mitsui Kawasaki quickly became large factories. That is to say, the state paid for the completion of the capitalist state, and it was originally necessary to go through hundreds of years of primitive accumulation of capital. In order to encourage farmers to enter the factories to eliminate the fear of the roar of the machines, the Meiji government ordered all the wives and daughters of government executives to enter the factories to operate the machines, and set an example for the whole people. Culturally, an enlightened culture was proposed, and Toya entered Europe. Reward people with Western architecture. Shaving hair, dress, foreign food, etc., the Japanese people also put aside the inherent concept of rice supremacy and began to eat meat, breaking many traditional taboos.
Originally, Japan did not have the raw materials and markets that western countries needed, and the reason why the American fleet entered Japan was only to establish a supply station for their fleet in the western Pacific, but one of the seemingly less important moves of the American fleet triggered the butterfly effect, and after the Meiji Restoration, Japan's national strength began to increase significantly. At that time, Japan was thriving with a new atmosphere, but such rapid reform could not be complete, and there were also huge hidden dangers behind the prosperity. The establishment of the government also had a certain compromise on the feudal samurai forces; after all, the original government had no troops, so the power of the Shanghai Army and the army in the establishment of the army was directly transformed from the previous feudal lords. The army is not led by civilian officials but by military generals. These warlords used their military power to enter the cabinet of the Meiji government, and eventually gradually took control of the government.
Peacetime is not a reflection of its own value for military generals. So Japan, under the control of these feudal warrior forces, embarked on a road of no return.