They are said to be a burden because in postwar Japan, large and medium-sized cities were basically in ruins, and there was a serious shortage of materials, and everyone did not have enough to eat. Now that millions of young men are back, they can do nothing but fight.
They are said to be a disgrace. In the later period of the war, Japan was losing ground, and people gradually understood the truth of the war. Especially after the war, their minds were liberated, and the bad things that these Japanese soldiers did overseas were gradually understood by more Japanese, which made the Japanese who were so proud feel very ashamed.
After Japan's defeat, millions of Japanese troops from China, Korea, Southeast Asia and the Pacific returned from overseas, including about 6.5438+0.98 million Japanese troops in Taiwan Province Province, 720,000 Japanese troops in Southeast Asia, 654.38+0.10.00 million Japanese troops in the Pacific Islands and hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in the navy.
These millions of burdens were painfully sent back to China one by one.
There are some photos reflecting the life of Japanese soldiers after the war, and their experiences are different.
The former imperial army cast an envious glance at the American army. In postwar Japan, the winner dominated everything.
A large number of veterans can't find jobs and are looked down upon. In the troubled times in the early post-war period, people who could fight quickly sank into the black society and fought.
Facing the scorched hometown, the soldiers were at a loss. During the war, most large and medium-sized cities in Japan were bombed.
This shirtless old devil is going to rebuild his home. After all, he has gone home. There is always hope.
This retired old devil seems to have a relatively comfortable life and can read newspapers in his spare time.
Many returning soldiers, led by their former officers, took part in the work of cleaning up the ruins of urban war and urban construction.
Old devils often go to the dump of the American army to find food. It would be a great honor to go to the US military camp to shine shoes.
The old devil begged along the street. He may be shy and wear glasses.
After the war, Japan implemented a rationing system, and soldiers returning from overseas had to queue up for it like the people.
This should be the devil of Osaka Division, who is good at doing business. As soon as they returned to China, they quickly started a small business in front of the US military camp.
The old devil worked for the American army. He was very lucky to have a job after the war.
Veterans became mobile vendors.
On the other hand, the officers of these soldiers encouraged the soldiers to die for the emperor during the war, but they didn't even have the courage to commit suicide at the critical moment, such as tojo hideki.
The soldiers of the victorious country defeated fascism and became national heroes. These fascist soldiers brought great disasters to the people of other countries in the war. After the war, they were lucky enough to return home alive and escaped punishment. Compared with the hundreds of thousands of kwantung army soldiers who were taken captive to Siberia as coolies, those Japanese soldiers really burned incense.
Since the Meiji Restoration, relying on repeated gambling, Japan has embarked on the road of becoming a powerful country, and has also embarked on the road of no return with full confidence. Regardless of its own strength, it dreams of dividing up the world. Once it woke up and looked back and found itself chained for more than 70 years.
What is the treatment of the defeated country? The defeated country not only lost its national dignity, but also was invaded by hostile countries in various fields. Japan became a defeated country in World War II, its economy once collapsed, and even their country was led by Americans.
Japanese soldiers fighting in the front line naturally have a hard time. Many of them didn't even know that their country had been declared defeated, and those Japanese soldiers who returned home had a hard time. Holding the urn of their comrades-in-arms, carrying their own guns, they took them all the way back to the motherland on a ship sent by the state?
They are not treated well by people here. On the contrary, many people hate this group of Japanese soldiers because they are defeated and have no dignity.
In order to win the war, the number of soldiers sent by Japan is not large at all. Initially, their population was relatively small. This time, the troops were sent directly to almost all men of school age who can fight in China. Many Japanese soldiers are children, and some are old people in their sixties and seventies.
After the defeat, the Japanese army returned to China regardless of the number of people. Because Japan did not develop its economy well during the war, they could not work. After all, being caught in the middle by several superpowers, there is no chance to develop the economy at all.
The failure of the Pacific War dealt a great blow to Japan itself. Japanese dignitaries are facing difficulties, how can they support this group of defeated Japanese soldiers?
Perhaps because of the samurai spirit, the Japanese soldiers who returned from the defeat were hostile to many civilians. Japan is already very poor, and no one wants to accept these Japanese soldiers. Their situation has also gone from bad to worse, and many Japanese soldiers have been reduced to begging in the streets.
Americans once helped Japanese soldiers. With this subsidy, they firmly controlled the Japanese army. Later, they did not give any subsidies to these Japanese soldiers. At this time, the Japanese army has no capital to support itself. At the time of the invasion, these Japanese soldiers probably never thought that they would end up like this.
Later, in order to avoid this confusion, the rulers gave these defeated soldiers some jobs. Even so, they can only solve their own food and clothing problems.
With the increasing help of the United States, the Korean War broke out and all American materials were ordered from Japan, which enabled the Japanese economy to recover rapidly and many Japanese people to live a rich life again. Compared with the hard life in the past, they finally went to heaven.
Why did the defeated soldiers in Japan fall into such a state? In the final analysis, it is because their country is too poor, so naturally don't expect anything without money. However, after the Korean War began, it was different. Japan's economy has developed rapidly, and the treatment of these defeated soldiers has naturally improved rapidly. At first, they had to beg in the street.
In order to counter the new forces in China, the Americans decided to support the Japanese and make it a local force to contain China. In order to make this butcher's knife sharper, Americans began to cultivate Japan, deliberately making their economy develop faster, and even later let Japan handle its internal affairs independently.
In the past, the military bosses returned to their posts, which was very good for veterans. Because Japan's economy is developing very well, these veterans can actually receive a subsidy of 2 million yen every year, which has exceeded many ordinary workers.
1945 In August, when Japan surrendered, there were still millions of Japanese troops, and most of them had guns in their hands. At that time, the Japanese high-level officials were afraid that the hardliners would act first and then launch the "Kamikaze Special Attack", or that the Japanese who were educated to die with the Americans really got under the wheels of the US military with explosives. If this happens, the result will definitely be that the United States will continue to drop atomic bombs on Japan.
In fact, Japanese high-level officials think too much. Those "hardliners" are not even as good as cooked ducks-rotten meat but not rotten mouths. As soon as the American soldiers arrived, the "hardliners" immediately turned into cowards and wagged their tails to please the American soldiers. This is called scrambling. Any hawkish swallow pie has become a plucked chicken, as smart as it is.
Seeing their deified senior generals become pet dogs, the whole Japanese army collapsed: "We were fooled by you! Compared with thick skin and shameless, we are not bad! "
So the "kamikaze special forces" with planes flew to steal food and then sold it by air. Even the Japanese female doctors and nurses wearing nurses' uniforms directly stole all the medicines and medical devices and ran away, leaving the wounded soldiers in the hospital screaming.
When the vast majority of ordinary people were hungry and stuck on their backs, the black market in Japan was the most prosperous, but all kinds of munitions, food and medicines were sold well. Behind these tight supplies, there are shadows of Japanese senior generals and even organizations such as the Black Dragon Club. You know, just a few days ago, they encouraged soldiers and civilians to commit suicide and die in various public places. Japan's post-war moral decay shocked even American soldiers: "Those who were willing to die for their country just a few months ago and planned to die as pure and elegant as cherry blossoms are now ruthlessly deceiving their compatriots!"
Soon, the Japanese people found that they could not get food, pots and pans and other daily necessities, and black market businessmen could always get them from the government through relationships.
The Japanese people's resentment was boiling, and the Prime Minister of Tohoku began to "fight tigers", but he sadly found that the supporters behind the black market were not to be taunted by the prime minister who was born in the royal family, so he stopped being the prime minister and started a black market transaction with antiques sent by his subordinates.
Of course, some people have "backbone". For example, a prosecutor named Yamaguchi Tadashi Zhi resolutely refused to buy food on the black market. As a result, he really starved to death. ...
When the former Soviet Union detained hundreds of thousands of Japanese prisoners of war to dig coal, Japan didn't respond at all. This is not because Japan's conscience found atonement, but because the former Soviet Union really sent the prisoners back, and Japan could not afford to feed them.
After the defeat, more than 7 million soldiers and their families withdrew to Japan. They were greeted not by flowers and hugs, but by bricks and tiles thrown by citizens. When the Japanese people saw the American army, they bowed their heads humbly. When they turned around and saw the Japanese army in uniform, they immediately put on a beating look and cursed loudly. Even the palace guards were afraid to wear military uniforms, but changed into black uniforms. They were once mistaken by the Japanese people for the landing troops of China. As a result, they leaked the stuffing as soon as they opened their mouths, and the people threw stones again. Japan was so hungry that Ji Tianmao, the successor prime minister, had to beg MacArthur: "Give some food, or Japan will go bankrupt." According to current standards, Ji Tianmao's demand for only 470 tons of grain is really not high.
But MacArthur pondered for a long time and thought that the American people would blame the Japanese enemy for feeding them. So there was a report in China: either give them something to eat or give me more bullets, and I will kill them all! MacArthur's phrase "Give me food or bullets" has also become a famous saying.
As a result, the United States gave Japan 700,000 tons of grain, which actually eased the food crisis (it is estimated that senior officials have eaten enough). MacArthur scolded Ji Tianmao angrily: How dare you fool me with the lion's mouth!
Ji Tianmao guessed: We just don't know how to count. If we can really count, how dare we fight you? ...
After Japan's defeat, it was really miserable. Since the Meiji Restoration, all the overseas interests gained have been lost, and the mainland has been occupied and managed by the US military. Many people are saying that Japanese troops are not welcome back. I am particularly surprised at this. How did this happen? In Japan at that time, besides these people, how could there be a strong labor force available? If these people are unpopular, who will support the family?
Depending on whether Japanese women are "Pan Pan", the US military has such a big consumer market! In fact, it was MacArthur of the United States who was committed to saving Japan. In the name of the urgent need to rebuild Japan's order, he desperately begged for materials from his family to support Japan to show his fatherly name. Every day, he reveled in the flattery of the emperor and his wife. He used domestic relations to beg for materials and even interfered with Marshall's plan to rebuild Europe at that time, which made Marshall complain. Should Europe precede Asia? ! Of course, the materials that went to Japan at that time were pitiful to Americans, and they were indeed pitiful compared with those after the Korean War, but the Japanese government used these materials to tide over the difficulties.
The first is to resume offshore fishing and collection, and the seaweed that has not been eaten before is also brought into the pot. This is the only emergency life-saving food in Japan that can be recovered immediately on a large scale. In the cities destroyed after the war, large-scale infrastructure projects were consolidated and rebuilt, and a mixed rice ball and an omnivorous rice ball were distributed to the working people every day. This is the food for people who work to survive and support their families. This sounds really the bottom line, especially for Americans, and it will really produce the initial white-left feeling of killing people. This is why MacArthur begged for supplies at home and even strangely collected donations. Only Americans.
Among them, those young defeated soldiers who came back alive are the absolute main force, not to mention the urgent need for government reconstruction. People have blind dates, and disabled men are rushing to get them. Where is the upset? If you can earn two rice balls every day, then you have to be a white-collar worker, okay? ! Five or six years later, Korea went to war, and Japan after reconstruction caught up with the first batch of orders, and the economic miracle began.
After Japan announced its surrender, most Japanese soldiers who fought overseas laid down their weapons and returned to China one after another. Of course, except for the Kwantung Army in the northeast, as part of the Japan-Soviet agreement, these officers and men were handed over to the Soviet Union as labor. "Use it if you want", including some officials and military families of the Puppet Manchukuo (Japanese military families refer to civilians employed by the army). Before 1950, these people basically returned to Japan as long as they didn't die in the Soviet Union (the mortality rate was high, but lower than that of German prisoners of war, and the Soviet Union completely retaliated against German prisoners of war).
According to my memoirs of the Japanese army after the war, the Japanese army will issue a kind of bill for free after returning home, and they can go back to their hometown by train. There is nothing else, let alone various subsidies. If the company before joining the army still exists, you can apply to return to the original company, but after the war, Japan's economy was depressed and war was destroyed, and some retired officers and men still could not return to the original company.
One of the characteristics of Japan's economy is that there are a large number of small and micro enterprises, the life span is compensated, and the working period of employees is limited. Job hopping is normal. After the war, a large number of Japanese troops were absorbed by these small and micro enterprises. Of course, they can also go it alone or raise funds to open a small shop, such as the storefront of fried tempura. Veterans, I'm talking about people who have no connections or backgrounds. It seems that after experiencing the life and death of the war, they are not afraid of anything else, work hard, and at least have enough to eat in life. Many prisoners of war also organize small-scale joint-stock companies.
According to the memoirs, the life of ordinary people in Japan after the war was relatively acceptable. Of course, it can't be compared with today's prosperity, but it is a far cry from the Soviet Union at that time. Many Japanese soldiers come from rural families. In those days, Japanese rural life was extremely hard, probably similar to that of China in 1980s, and they seldom ate fish and meat. The extreme poverty in the Soviet Union in the early post-war period, especially in the Far East, shocked these Japanese prisoners of war who were born in rural areas.
In those years, the Japanese people, including prisoners of war, seemed to be working hard to rebuild Japan. American orders played a part in the Korean War, but the most important key was the correct policy of the Japanese government to develop market economy after the war and the hard work of the Japanese people. Around the 1960s, Japanese-made cars and home appliances were already highly competitive, and the life of the Japanese people was greatly improved at that time. Consumer industries such as sporting goods stores began to develop, and many former Japanese soldiers also entered the middle class during this period.
The number of soldiers in wartime will definitely be much higher than in peacetime. After the war, Japanese soldiers were basically demobilized and resettled except for some who served as basic security forces. In addition, in Japan after the war, a large number of young people were recruited because of the war, which led to a general lack of labor in society. All walks of life needed a lot of labor, and demobilized soldiers naturally became a good supplement.
In those days, it caused endless pain to the country, and it can be said that it was impossible to live. 1On August 5th, 945, Japan surrendered unconditionally, and more than 3 million troops were sent to the battlefields in China, the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia. After the surrender, these soldiers were escorted back to China. What did they do after returning to China?
Of these millions of returning soldiers, only a few have been assigned jobs by the Japanese government to maintain local public order in Japan, and they are supervised by the allied forces in their work. Their wages are extremely low and they can barely make ends meet, because the war is extremely consuming resources and destroying the economy. At that time, Japan was extremely short of food, and the soldiers who lost their jobs had to go to the garbage dump of the US military to find food, or to clean the shoes of American soldiers, and perhaps to get a leftovers.
After Japan surrendered, Japanese gangs developed very rapidly. Most of them are veterans, because these soldiers came down from the battlefield.
After the war, most Japanese soldiers who returned home had a hard time. In order to survive, some choose to take out a little money they have accumulated and do some small business to make a living. Some choose to hold a group with other soldiers, help each other and start a company or factory together. There are a few lucky people, their original company did not disappear in the war, they can go back to work. However, on the whole, their life is hard.
The picture shows the Japanese soldiers who left under the supervision of the national soldiers after the defeat.
There are also some returning soldiers who have become government security personnel, working as police and security guards with low salaries. Relatively speaking, they are lucky, because these people have at least got jobs and can make a living. There are also some lucky people who have been recruited by the US troops stationed in Japan to serve American soldiers in exchange for a small reward and possible rewards. Some people are miserable and can only dig up leftovers in American garbage dumps to satisfy their hunger.
The picture shows the defeated Japanese soldiers under the supervision of American soldiers.
Japanese troops stationed in rabaul are basically the luckiest. Because there are many factories in this area and they are completely self-sufficient before the local supply is cut off, they can not only bring back a lot of food, but also precious seeds and farm tools. After returning to Japan, these people are often able to set aside a piece of farmland, sell crops and earn considerable income.
The picture shows that the defeated Japanese army is counting.
In a word, after the war, these arrogant and crazy Japanese returned to their hometown, only to be devastated. The punishment of aggression may not be imposed on them, but it is engraved in their hometown, so that they can repay their sins with a hard life.
During World War II, Japan, as a major axis country, played a huge role in the battlefield, not only invading other countries, but also killing innocent people in other countries. It can be said that Japan has a "merit" comparable to Germany in the history of war, which is rare. Later 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and Japanese soldiers from all over the world evacuated from other countries. All ordinary soldiers were put back to China except those who were sentenced to death for serious crimes.
According to statistics, at the end of World War II, Japan left at least 5 million people on various battlefields, and there were millions of Japanese troops on the battlefields in China. And when these millions of soldiers who invaded China return to Japan, what kind of miserable treatment will they receive? Next, let's take a look. There are still pictures and truth, but it's really worth it!
As we all know, Japan is a martial country. After the outbreak of World War II, Japan did a very good job in arousing people's enthusiasm for war. In this way, soldiers will be highly treated at home at that time. People will wash and cook for them, and all kinds of praises will be praised. Anyway, it will be praised to heaven. Family members will be proud of them, and the government will give them all kinds of generous treatment, hoping that they can lead Japan to the top of the world. The result is the news of Japan's failure.
So after the war, most people thought it was the incompetence of Japanese soldiers, so Japan failed. So these soldiers returned to China, and the treatment suddenly became very poor. This gap seems to have changed from an emperor to a prisoner, and everyone looks down on them, including themselves. So in order to fill this gap, most soldiers chose to commit suicide, and some went crazy and stopped showing off before.
After Japan surrendered, at the request of the United States, Japan could not form an army, so that millions of soldiers suddenly had nowhere to go. Most of them can only fight, and nothing else. The dissolution of the army means that there is no job to support yourself.
As early as during the war, Japan experienced the death bombing of the United States, many buildings were destroyed and the region became a scorched earth. After leaving the army, these soldiers have no home to go home even if they want to. Most of their relatives died in the war, and most of them became homeless, with no relatives and no reason. Even if you have relatives, because you don't go home all the year round, your wife remarries and your children grow up. It's really fragmented. Under such conditions, they have to sleep on the streets in large numbers and lead a miserable life.
In addition, because Japan's domestic economy is not high, it almost collapsed after the war. If it weren't for the food supported by MacArthur, I'm afraid Japan would have been hungry. At this time, the influx of a large number of soldiers also means that the country's food shortage is rapid. They didn't have enough to eat, and many people starved to death.
Of course, there will still be people who want to support themselves with their own hands, so they will do very low-level jobs, but those disabled soldiers are very pitiful. They have no family, no house, no food and poor health. How do they survive? It is reported that most disabled people finally choose to be beggars, begging along the street all day, just hoping to survive.
Seeing this, well-intentioned people may feel sorry for themselves, but you should know how arrogant they are in China. I made the choice myself, so no matter what the result is, I have to bear it myself. Such a person deserves no sympathy.
On August 1945, Japan declared defeat and surrender. At that time, the number of Japanese prisoners of war and expatriates in China was staggering, totaling more than 3 million, half of whom were in the Northeast.
1945 10 10 On October 25th, China and the United States held a meeting in Shanghai to repatriate Japanese overseas Chinese and Japanese prisoners. In principle, it was established that all Japanese overseas Chinese and Japanese prisoners stranded in China should be repatriated to Japan in an organized manner, and specific measures were worked out to repatriate Japanese prisoners of war and expatriates: Japanese prisoners of war and expatriates should be repatriated by stages in the order from the inside out. Among them, the China government is responsible for the concentration of these Japanese overseas Chinese and Japanese prisoners, which are transported to the port by land, while the US military organizes ships to be responsible for maritime transportation.
By June of 1946, more than 2 million Japanese prisoners of war in Shanhaiguan were basically repatriated, and the focus of repatriation shifted to Japanese overseas Chinese and Japanese prisoners of war in Northeast China.
As of September 1944, there are 1662234 Japanese immigrants living in all parts of northeast China. On May 7th, 1946, two ships loaded with 2,489 Japanese nationals left Huludao, and the "Huludao Repatriation" began.
1On September 4th, 946, the first batch of Japanese returned to China. On this day, * * * sent four ships, with a total of 15908 people, which was the day with the largest number of repatriations in a single day.
1946 65438+On February 25th, the last batch of 3,695 Japanese nationals left Huludao.
On June 4th, 65438+September 20th, 0948, the last batch of Japanese nationals ***387 1 were airlifted from Shenyang to Jinzhou, and then returned to China by boat from Huludao.
So far, all Japanese overseas Chinese in Northeast China have been repatriated, with a total of 105 1047.