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What? A bag of rice in Japan can change the god and treat a girl for a night? What's wrong with Japan?
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The whole world should have heard the news: the citizens of a developed country have no rice to cook.
That's right, this developed country is Japan.
To what extent is there a shortage of rice in Japan?
Since July, the rice shortage in Japan has begun to take shape, and many places have begun to restrict purchases.
By the beginning of September, nearly eighty percent of shopping malls in Japan had lost supply.
Offline "one rice is hard to find", many people buy rice online, but after the payment is placed, the merchant says that it will not be shipped until 11 copies.
Wait for the rice to be put into the pot here, but it says that it will be shipped in two months, so don't send it at all, and it will be burned directly when the time comes.
Even if some people were lucky enough to get their hands on rice, they were dismayed by the high prices.
Some media in Japan pointed out that if the government does nothing, the rice shortage is likely to develop into a "rice riot".
The word "rice commotion" has repeatedly stimulated the fragile nerves of Japan in modern times.
Speaking of which, Japan's largest rice riot has nothing to do with natural disasters, and it is entirely its own doing.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Japan began to enter a capitalist society, and since it is a capitalist society, how can it be less exploitative and oppressive?
On the one hand, the capitalists who are fattened with blood-stained wealth, and on the other hand, the peasants and workers who are squeezed to the point of making it difficult to survive, the class antagonism has made the situation in Japan very loud.
Under such circumstances, Japan actually wanted to interfere with the October Revolution in Russia, isn't this equivalent to ants taking advantage of the elephant herd to grab territory?
From the beginning of 1918, the price of rice in Japan began to soar, and by August 9, the price of rice had risen to 5 jiao and 2 cents, and at this time in 1917, the price of rice was only 1 dime.
I have to say that if you want to talk about capital exploitation, it depends on the Japan!
Workers and peasants across Japan have asked the government to regulate the price of rice, but protecting the interests of the capitalists is the first duty of the government.
The first to stir up were the wives of the fishermen, who were the people living at the bottom of the ladder.
The family's daily income could no longer keep up with the skyrocketing price of rice, so they surrounded the rice shop and demanded a price reduction.
But the capitalists were unmoved, and still hoarded rice, ready to dump it and sell it at a high price.
On August 4, hundreds of hungry women looted a rice shop, and nearby villages began to follow suit.
What did the Japan government do about the riots of the common people?
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In order to further protect the interests of the capitalists, the Japan government opted for armed repression.
Just one grain grabber in Osaka City sent Japan a cavalry wing, an engineer battalion, and a field artillery division.
They wantonly arrested and slaughtered civilians.
In the end, this "rice riot", which lasted for more than two months and had as many as 10 million participants, was barely quelled under the bloody massacre of the Japanese armed forces.
Compared with the Rice Riot of 1918, the Rice Riot of 1993 was a little smaller, but it lasted longer.
In 1993, due to the impact of the volcanic eruption in the Philippines, Japan's rice production was severely reduced.
At that time, Japan's domestic demand for rice was 10 million tons, but the output was only about 7 million tons, with a deficit of more than 2 million tons.
The Japan government just released 230,000 tons of grain reserves as if asking for food.
Even with public complaints, the Japan government will not violate the ban on "not importing a grain of rice from other countries."
The rice shortage in Japan lasted from 1993 to 1994.
It may be because of public grievances, or it may be because Japan officials do not have a hard stomach, and they imported 2.59 million tons of rice from several neighboring countries to solve Japan's rice shortage.
However, 30 years later, there are still problems of rice shortage that afflict the Japan government and people from time to time.
As a developed country, is it really impossible for Japan to solve this food problem? Is the rice shortage in Japan really to the point where a bag of rice is exchanged for a god to treat a girl?
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Treating girls with gods is a magical phenomenon unique to Japan.
In the nineties, Japan's economic bubble burst, and many families went bankrupt and could not bear the pressure of raising a baby.
As a result, many girls live on the streets, waiting for "good Samaritans" to bring them back, give them food to eat, and give them a place to live......
They call these "well-wishers" gods, and these girls are called girls waiting for the gods to deliver.
As for what the "gods" took the girl away, then I don't know.
Later, God's treatment of young girls gradually developed into a kind of skin and meat business.
After the rice shortage in Japan this year, the price of rice has risen rapidly, according to statistics, the price of a 50-pound bag of rice is about 14,000 yen, about 700 yuan.
The point is that this product is still unmarketable, and rice is still available in some places, but the word Fukushima written on the place of origin discourages many people.
Therefore, in Japan, a bag of rice for a god to treat a girl overnight may not be groundless.
So why is Japan making a rice shortage at every turn? It's a developed country anyway, and there is no rice to put in the pot at every turn, which is too faceless, right?
Japan's food self-sufficiency rate has always been low, and rice is considered to be relatively high, but it is only 102%.
This 102% may seem like being able to be self-sufficient, but this barely self-sufficient can't withstand the twists and turns!
However, if there is a slight geological disaster that reduces grain production, there may be a rice shortage.
Coupled with the inaction of the Japanese government, it is understandable why Japanese people pick and search when they eat.
When asked by the media when the food shortage problem would be resolved, Japan's Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries replied: I went to ask the supermarket clerk yesterday, and the clerk told me that it would be available on Wednesday.
No? You, a high-ranking official in charge of the country's agriculture, ask the supermarket clerk when the food will be in stock when the food shortage in the country will be in charge.
Are Japan's officials so good? Take 10,000 steps back, won't the people themselves ask?
When asked why there was a rice shortage, the official threw the blame for typhoons and earthquakes, and even threw the pot to foreign tourists, saying that foreign tourists ate too much.
It's all to blame, but not to themselves.
According to the Japan Keizai Shimbun, arable land in Japan decreased by 30% from 1962 to 2022.
Moreover, many of them have been asked to reduce or change production.
Why is this so?
A reporter from the Global Times investigated the situation as follows: United States has always had a surplus of grain, so United States is unwilling to let Japan increase its food self-sufficiency rate.
This reminds me of my second uncle, who never buys dog food for his dogs, what he eats and what the dogs eat.
Epilogue:
Although our country does not have to worry about such absurd things as the "rice riot", we still have to remind everyone to save food.
Resources:
Behind Japan's "Reiwa Rice Shortage". Global Times.
Out of stock, limited purchase...... Japan's "rice shortage" continues! The government once again refused to put in the reserve rice, and the Chinese in many places said that "one meter is hard to find", and some people set up mutual aid groups. Red Star News.
WANG Lida. The Revolutionary Struggle of the Japan People in 1918 -- "Rice Riots".CNKI.
Jiang Yuzhou|Japan's "rice famine": man-made disasters are self-inflicted, and natural disasters cannot be prevented. Observer.com.