In the Korean War, the mainland joined to defend the country and successfully ended the war. On the spiritual level, the Chinese nation, which had experienced many years of war suffering, once again reshaped its self-confidence, when no one or no country thought that the mainland had the possibility of victory, but the Chinese nation won; in the material aspect, the Soviet Union launched a project to aid China after the war, promoting the great economic development of the mainland. Therefore, it is completely fine that the mainland is the victor of this war. But in addition to the mainland being the victor, there is a huge winner hidden behind the Korean War. Of course, it is not the Koryo nation belonging to the two countries, because the war took place on their own land, and the damage to the economy and the people is difficult to measure; the United States is obviously the losing side, but they think that the end of the war is only a return to the original point, so it can only be regarded as a draw between the two sides; in addition, only Japan is left, which did not personally participate in the war, so why did Japan become the biggest beneficiary behind the war? How did Japan rise after World War II?
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Americans' "Paradise"
Japan has never been a peaceful neighbor. Its root may be the "contradictory" characteristic pursued by the Japanese nation, which has been vividly described by American writers, who said that the Japanese hold chrysanthemums and knives in their hands, and the so-called "chrysanthemums" symbolize the pursuit of beauty and stability; and the "knife" represents violence and expansion.
In addition, the Japanese expressed concern about having only one island moment. Therefore, since ancient times, there have been many times to spy on large areas of land in neighboring countries, but they have finally shrunk on the island because of their inability to resist. However, the Japanese did not give up, and the desire for territory became the pursuit of generations. Without absolute power or even inferiority, they can only shrink on the island for a long time.
Japan after World War II
But they also had the same experience as the Qing Dynasty, and American warships sailed into the agricultural society of Japan. However, at this time, Japan did not have a strong royal power and traditional obstacles, and accepted the "culture" brought by the Americans. Since then, American ideas such as "freedom" have entered Japanese society, and soon after, Japan began the Meiji Restoration.
Japan's Meiji Restoration gradually achieved results, and both social life and military strength were significantly improved. This effect was soon fully tested. Defeat the Qing Dynasty, which was once afraid to touch, through the Sino-Japanese War, and feel the huge "benefits" brought by the war. After tasting the sweetness, the Japanese once again dreamed of a continuous pursuit of territory.
Meiji Restoration
After defeating the Qing Dynasty, Japan became the hegemon of Asia. Military strength and international status even grew exponentially, and even became the first in Asia to break away from agricultural society and enter the ranks of industrialized countries. Japan's rapid development even surprised all Japanese people. As a result, the desire for territory grew and was raised to the table.
On the mainland, the fleets of the great powers also came under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. But there was a fierce conflict between the ideas of the "kingdom of god" and the foreigners, and these invaders immediately plundered the decaying dynasty. Later, after the fall of the dynasty, it fell into a situation of warlord division, which means that the mainland was still in a backward agricultural society. Japan's growing strength led to the increasing prominence of "territorial" ambitions, the gradual introduction of aggressive plans, and the whole country was preparing for war.
Western powers
When the Japanese were ready, they took the lead in invading the defenseless Korean Peninsula and then set their sights on the mainland. And in the third year of the invasion of the northeast region of the mainland, after which it began to invade the land of China unscrupulously, trying to complete the "dream" in the hearts of generations of Japanese predecessors. At first, everything went well, but after entering China, I found that the situation had changed unexpectedly.
The Japanese had planned to take the mainland in only a few months, but in fact, in addition to thinking that the mainland was in a period of chaos, there was a huge contradiction lurking in Japan. At that time, the Japanese top brass seemed to be able to solve the problem only by war. However, the tenacity of the Chinese nation far exceeded the expectations of the Japanese, which led to the main force of the Japanese army being plunged into the quagmire of war. The Japanese army was pushed into a desperate situation, and as long as it failed, it would face a collapse in the domestic economy, and the same result would be dragged out.
Atomic bomb explosion
Therefore, the Japanese were desperate and had no choice but to embark on the road of "wild gambling". As a result, we are all very clear that the main Japanese forces are trapped in a quagmire and cannot extricate themselves, nor can they end the war early. Even in the case of Germany and other early "retreat" of the Japanese still insisted, so the United States dropped two atomic bombs to become the last psychological defense line to crush the Japanese. Japan is once again back to the days when turtles were cowering on islands.
But for the Americans, this is not the end of the matter, they are afraid that something similar will happen in Japan later. So MacArthur landed directly on the Japanese mainland with hundreds of thousands of troops and carried out a comprehensive transformation and control of Japanese society. One of the most direct controls was the total occupation of important Japanese cities, and the attempt of the U.S. military to become the "gods" of the Japanese in all aspects.
MacArthur
The Japanese lost their right to war after World War II, that is, they were not allowed to have their own army and the right to start war. In addition to this, American soldiers are on a higher status than the Japanese, and they do not have any right to blame these Americans. In order to meet the needs of Americans, the Japanese did not hesitate to "dedicate" their own women to them. In addition, all the expenses of the US military in Japan were paid by Japan, which made the leader of this group of US troops, MacArthur, the real "god" of the Japanese.
In addition to controlling Japan's military and political power, the US military also very much hopes that Japan can return to the primitive agricultural society. In this way, they will not have to worry about japan going back to the same old way in the future. Therefore, if the US military wants to put an end to this, it must not be able to let the Japanese economy take off again, because the war caused a serious famine in Japan and stopped the development of modern industry, which made a large number of Japanese people die in the great famine.
In short, the U.S. military controlled Japan in all respects after the war, Japan lost almost all sovereignty, industry was in a state of shutdown, ordinary people were struggling on the brink of survival, and in the beginning, Japan had a large number of war reparations bills to pay. In light of Japan's developments, the Americans envisioned that they would also be able to gradually turn Japan into a "promised land" for the U.S. military.
The outbreak of the Korean War Japan seized the opportunity
In 1950, a civil war broke out between the north and the south of the Goryeo people, which belonged to the same ethnic group. Originally, some internal disputes have attracted the interest of the Americans more and more as a result. Americans saw the benefits of joining the dispute, so they decided to insert it. The end of the civil war instantly escalated into an international war. This change has caught the attention of other countries, which do not want to just end a war and start another war.
To say that the United States suddenly intervened was very sudden, because at that time The Main Focus of Americans was on Europe, not Asia. But after learning that the Soviet Union was actually secretly involved in the Korean War, the Americans believed that this was the first step for the Soviet Union to take over the world, when the two major powers of the United States and the Soviet Union were being influenced by the "Cold War mentality" and then intervened in the Korean War.
USSR
However, after the Americans joined the dispute, they, like the Japanese who invaded China in those years, had the idea of "superiority of man" and constantly harassed the people of China's northeast region, and eventually the people of the mainland resolutely participated in the war to defend their homeland and defend the country. The continental army once again showed its tenacious perseverance to amaze the world, and after three years of continuous fighting, it finally drove the "proud" Americans back to the "38th Line."
The Americans' desire to return home at Christmas was completely shattered with the addition of our army, and it was during this period that Japan seized the best opportunity. Although the Japanese are now under the control of the "U.S. military", they are full of expectations for the previous prosperity, and they are eager to return to the position of Asian hegemony.
American soldiers
Although the Japanese were oppressed by the Americans, many people gradually disliked these misbehaving American soldiers, but they could do nothing. In fact, the contradictions between the two sides can be imagined, and they must have begun to resist fiercely in other peoples and countries. However, the Japanese top level believes that at this time, it is simply powerless to resist the United States, so it is better to obey the United States in everything and take the initiative to cooperate with the Americans.
Within a week or so of the start of the Korean War, the Japanese had shown their support for all United Nations decisions and their willingness to help in any way. Some Americans were very hostile to the Japanese because of World War II and hoped that they would never turn over; others were pragmatic, believing that the US military at this time needed japanese help if they wanted to win the Korean War.
The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union
In the great power game, in the end, it still values interests. In fact, the United States did not expect to conduct a large-scale land war in the Far East after World War II, as long as there were enough troops to watch Japan. This thinking was typically due to the fact that the war had never been fought on American soil, but it was later believed that it wanted to compete with the Soviet Union and contain its development in the Far East. As long as it can get the Korean Peninsula, everything is not empty talk, so the United States chooses Japan's "selfless help" the most.
The United States and Japan are now on the same page and ready to cooperate. So the United States began to change its arrogant "God" posture, and began to actively improve its relations with the Japanese. So in the first year after the outbreak of the war, the relationship between the Americans and Japan improved dramatically, helping Japan to do several major things that gave them a lot of headaches. The first is to help Japan regain its nominal autonomy, and the second is that under the "advocacy" of the United States, many weak countries have given up their rights and interests because they do not want to offend the United States.
In this way, Japan took the Korean War as an opportunity to climb the lap of the United States. The first step in the Japanese's desire to turn around was achieved, and the Americans and the Japanese began to cooperate, but the way they cooperated was once again controversial. Some people believe that allowing the Japanese to form volunteers to participate in the Korean War will definitely ease the pressure on the US military.
torpedo
However, this proposal was opposed by many countries and the Japanese themselves. The reason for the opposition of other countries is simple, because Japan has lost the right to form an army after World War II, and if it agrees to organize an army at this time, it is not learning the lessons of history? Because it was the war that caused the Japanese people to complain continuously, if they participated in the war again, civil unrest would break out. So in the end this proposal was rejected.
Although this proposal was explicitly rejected by the Japanese, the Japanese did not want to make enemies with the Americans. So he secretly dispatched a minesweeper fleet and volunteered for the U.S. army in the Wonsan area for two months. The main reason this demining unit was not dismantled was that the United States dropped many torpedoes in the waters around the Japanese mainland in the late second of World War II. These torpedoes needed to be cleared again as the U.S. troops were stationed, so the force was left behind.
Military orders make a windfall in the war
Japan has impressed Americans with a series of seemingly "selfless" moves and behaviors, and the United States is more willing to cooperate with Japan. Since Japan could not participate directly in the Korean War, it adopted other forms of cooperation. Because Japan is a neighbor of the Korean Peninsula, it has an excellent geographical location for this war. Therefore, Japan can become an important production base for the cultivation and materials of the US military.
The Japanese top brass turned around through previous operations and the outbreak of the Korean War, and the U.S. military lacked materials and manpower because of the war, and Japan could help. Because of the collapse of the Japanese economy after World War II, a large number of workers were laid off at home and unemployed, but they could not be solved for a while. At this time, the needs of the US military are like a life-saving medicine injected into Japan.
The United States began to buy a large amount of military supplies from Japan, and a sudden "spring breeze" blew into Japan. Japan actually had a large industrial base and mature workers before World War II, but because of the lack of orders in factories, they were laid off. So the factories for the production of military materials needed by the U.S. military began to operate, and soon Japanese society began to recover in all aspects.
In order to enable Japan to quickly produce the materials they used in the Korean War, the US military resumed direct financial assistance to the Japanese economy, in fact, the Japanese high-level has long anticipated this situation, so it has always called the Korean War a "kamikaze", hoping that this wind can blow longer.
During the same period, Japan didn't just get orders from Americans. Because the Korean War is the result of the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in the eyes of European countries, the victory or defeat of this war will definitely affect the future world situation. Therefore, countries that have traditionally been friends with the United States have purchased materials in Japan, and for a while, Japan's textile industry, steel and other manufacturing industries have been working day and night, operating efficiently.
With the progress of the Korean War, this "special needs" economy in Japan became more and more invested, and according to statistics, Japan earned as much as 3.6 billion US dollars during this period. The fact that many of these cases have occurred in Japan is enough to illustrate the importance of this "special needs" economy to Japan. According to the recollection of a long-term U.S. quartermaster stationed in Japan, he called a meeting of many textile mill managers and announced on the spot that canvas was needed, and the U.S. military urgently needed this canvas as a tent. But no one responded after hearing this statement. Later, it was suggested that they did not have the funds to build dormitories for the workers, and the materials were not complete. Later, the quartermaster said that everything he needed would be provided, and the managers were confident and bold.
After that, with the support of funds, these textile mills seemed to return to their original state overnight. After the factory started, day and night, every worker desperately produced canvas. In fact, there are many examples like this, in fact, the most famous is that the Americans almost dissolved the chaebol groups behind Mitsui, Mitsubishi, etc., but this period is equivalent to secretly acknowledging these chaebol groups again, and giving a large number of military orders.
Japan received a large number of orders
For example, the Japanese Toyota Corporation, which at that time could only produce trucks. After the end of World War II, even the problem of hunger in Japan was difficult to solve, and Toyota could not get an order. Toyota, which has not been able to get orders for a long time, can only face bankruptcy like many Japanese companies, but orders for a large number of military trucks needed by the United States will soon come to Toyota. The company relied on orders for these military trucks to survive and regain its vitality.
These cases can prove that during the Korean War, Japan's economy was miraculously revived like a needle in the arm. In order to supply the War Materiel needed by the United States, Japan used almost the strength of the whole country, and in 1950 the "special needs" income was one point and nine hundred million US dollars, which increased fivefold in just one year. Some high-tech technologies that the United States banned from Using in Japan have also been continuously introduced into the United States, and the number of licenses for these technologies has increased considerably every year.
Japan
Halfway through the war, Japan's economy seemed to have returned to its pre-war level. In the decade after 1950, Japan received a total of more than 60 billion "special demand" orders. In the second year of the Korean War, the Americans decided to stop direct aid to Japan, but the Japanese did not feel "wronged." They may have begged the Americans for money, but now that money is nothing.
"Cry poor" chooses compensation at its own discretion
After the start of the Korean War, the United States gradually reduced japan's compensation payments in World War II. Because Japan faced huge war reparations after surrender, it also became a big mountain for them. However, at this time, Japan has become an important "material purchase center" for the US military, and of course will try its best to help Japan reduce war reparations.
On the one hand, the United States uses its right to "call on" countries to reduce Japan's reparations and erase all the land that can be reduced; on the other hand, it is to show the so-called "big country" style, cry for Japan's poverty, and hope that people will give the choice of how to compensate to Japan itself. This gave Japan the power to choose how to compensate itself.
Southeast Asian market
Of course, the Japanese don't directly choose to pay money, because they don't have that much cash themselves. In order to compensate the relatively backward southeast Asian countries, Japan has put its own mechanical products into the Southeast Asian market, and paid through mutual cooperation and labor export. Such a way of paying is undoubtedly a sure way to make a profit. Because this can help them smoothly open the Southeast Asian market and lay a deep foundation for subsequent cooperation.
Through the payment of compensation, they gained access to the Southeast Asian market, not only so that these historical reparations did not drag down the economy, but made a lot of money. It all stems from the fact that the United States wants Japan to "serve" it wholeheartedly, and Japan has the ability to make these products with the help of the United States.
Japan Self-Defense Forces
In addition to providing supplies for U.S. forces outside the Korean War, Japan is one important thing that is still close to restoring their former glory, that is, the issue of the army. After World War II, Japan had lost the right to form an army, but after the outbreak of the Korean War, U.S. troops stationed in Japan were transferred to the Korean Peninsula, which led to almost no defense force within Japan.
In order to cope with this situation, MacArthur, the commander of the US army, decided to form a so-called "reserve team". This team is the origin of the Japanese Self-Defense Force, the Korean War in the eyes of the Americans the Soviets took advantage, the United States believed that it was necessary to curb the development between the two great powers of China and the Soviet Union, and Japan's most important forward position, must do a good job in armament defense work.
Although this proposal was strongly opposed by the United Kingdom and other countries at the beginning, Japan once again embarked on the path of an armament power with the support of the US military. With the improvement of the Japanese economy, Japan has invested more and more in the military, and the military strength combined with the economic take-off has prepared Japan to return to the sequence of great powers.
The demarcation of the "38th Line" has been supported by the United States
After the armistice of the Korean War, the "38th Line" became two countries. Japan's geographical location became what the United States considered to be an excellent strategic area, and it was decided to continue cooperation with Japan after the war. Because it was during the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Korean Peninsula and Japan were the forward positions between the United States and the Soviet Union, and they did not want to lead the war to the mainland.
The dividing line between the two Koreas
If this war is not ultimately ended by the demarcation of the "38th Line", it must be won in the end. If the north of the Korean Peninsula wins a victory, the Soviet forces will certainly infiltrate into the Korean Peninsula, at which time Japan will become the front position of the United States against the Soviet Union, and its role will be highlighted, and if the southern part of the Korean Peninsula is victorious, Japan will undoubtedly become the real rear, and the United States will support the Korean Peninsula on the strategic front line, rather than choosing to cooperate with Japan. Therefore, the delimitation of the "38th Line" has made Japan a strategic buffer zone between the United States and the Soviet Union, and has become an important pawn of the United States.
Therefore, after the end of the Korean War, the United States of course "untied" Japan in all aspects, and cooperated with Japan, so that Japan quickly stepped into the world power. It was precisely because Japan seized the opportunity of the Korean War that it came out of the shadow of the war and became one of the biggest winners without a single soldier.
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