Speaking of Japan, we have to mention the war of aggression waged against our country in the thirties of the last century. It has caused a terrible disaster to our people. However, the atrocities of the Japanese were also opposed by international organizations, and the Americans began to unite with Britain to impose an "oil embargo" on Japan.
As we all know, Japan is an island country with extremely scarce resources. In order to meet the development of the country and the course of the war, 80% of Japan's oil at that time was imported from the United States. This is equivalent to stuck in the throat of the Japanese, and the Japanese front is pulled too long, and the consequences are self-evident.
In order to get the United States to lift sanctions as soon as possible, the Japanese militarism at that time began to get carried away, and began to plan a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the garrison of the US Pacific Fleet, resulting in heavy losses for the United States, and the next day, US President Roosevelt directly announced the war against Japan. The entry of the United States into the war has accelerated the demise of Japanese militarism.
The Japanese, on the other hand, began to set their sights on the Southeast Asian island nation, the Philippines. Because the oil reserves there are particularly abundant, and the strategic position is also very important. The Japanese gathered heavy troops and began to attack the Philippines, all the way to the capital Manila, but after entering the city, the Philippine army began to engage in street battles with the Japanese army.
In order to make the Philippine army surrender, the Japanese army hit the presidential palace, brutally killed the president's wife and daughter, and began to wantonly slaughter the filipino nationals. Turning a pre-war city full of vitality into a dead city with only crying and corpses everywhere.
And the captives who were taken did not have any preferential treatment, and what awaited them was endless hunger and endless hard work. Many people often do not have enough to eat, and they do not get timely medical treatment for illness, resulting in many people dying halfway. In addition to these brutalities, the Japanese army also implemented the so-called "Three Lights Policy". Burn and loot everywhere.
But in the end, after two atomic bombs were dropped by the United States, on August 15, 1945, the Japanese war maniac Emperor Hirohito announced his unconditional surrender. After the end of the war, the Philippine government began to claim 8 billion yuan from the Japanese government, but it was quickly rejected by the Japanese.
According to the recollections of Japanese veterans after the war, Japan is a country that believes in Bushido, and they do not admit that the Philippine army defeated them, so in the minds of the Japanese, they have always feared the strong, but such an answer quickly caused dissatisfaction among the Filipino people, and even many people rushed into prisoner-of-war camps to beat Japanese prisoners.
Therefore, the anti-Japanese armed forces at that time issued an order to execute all the Japanese prisoners who had not been sent back to China in the prisoner-of-war camp overnight, and after this news was returned to Japan, it caused many Japanese people to resist Japan.
However, such a request was rejected by the Philippines, and after the United States mediated from it, the relations between the Philippines and Japan slowly eased, and eventually the two sides signed a peace agreement and a compensation agreement. The Japanese still paid a heavy price for their aggression. What do you think about that?