After World War II, why 60% of Japan’s population was mixed? Japanese women are miserable

After the end of the Second World War, Japan once maintained a population status where more than half of its citizens were mixed races. Today, the scale of mixed races in Japan is still huge. There are not only a large number of mixed races in Japan, but also high overall quality. They are active in Japan's basketball, tennis, modeling and many other fields and have made important contributions to the development of Japan.

Perhaps in many people’s impressions, Japan is a very conservative Asian country, but what people don’t know is that Japan, like the United States, is actually a typical immigrant country. Immigration countries are countries that tend to be younger. Immigration can instill vitality into the development of a country. At the same time, immigration will change a country’s population structure and national ancestry, and will create a mixed society based on multi-ethnic coexistence.

Among the many immigrant countries in the world, Japan is undoubtedly the most popular one. Therefore, since Meiji Restoration , Japan has always had a special group of mixed races, just because they did not occupy Japanese society. The mainstream of China has not received widespread attention from the world.

As we all know, after the end of World War II, in order to quickly restore the country's population, Japan adopted many population policies to encourage fertility, which led to the rapid growth of Japan's population. In fact, it is not surprising that the population of Japan has increased dramatically after the war. What is strange is that there are so many mixed races in Japan. So, what are the reasons for the emergence of mixed-race children accounting for about 60% of the population in Japan?

The huge number of Japanese soldiers

After the end of the Second World War, the biggest problem Japan faced in restoring and developing its local economy was the population problem. Because Japan lost a large amount of adult male labor force in the war, Japan's economy fell into a state of stagnation for a while. Under the special social and historical conditions at that time, how to achieve rapid population growth became the most urgent problem facing Japan.In order to achieve rapid population growth in a short period of time, the Japanese government has adopted many population policies that encourage childbirth. For example, implements birth rewards, lowers the legal marriage age of Japanese women, and compulsory childbirth policies.

With the implementation of the policy of encouraging population fertility in Japan, Japan began to usher in the golden age of population growth, but during the period of population recovery in Japanese society, a large group of mixed races appeared. At the beginning of World War II, the number of mixed-race children born in Japanese society once reached 67% of newborn babies. As the initiator of the war, Japan was notoriously infamous in the international community. It is not practical to say that foreigners want to actively integrate with the Japanese. So why did Japan still have so many mixed races after World War II? In fact, the population situation of Japan after World War II has a direct relationship with the Japanese government.

As the saying goes, there is a causal relationship in everything. The massive loss of Japan’s population is directly related to the war, and Japan’s post-war population growth is also directly affected by the war. If you want to understand the reasons for the large number of mixed-race children in Japan after the end of World War II, it is necessary to understand the disastrous demographic status of Japan at the beginning of the war and the main reasons that led to this demographic status.

The participation of a large number of adult men in World War II is the main reason for the loss of the Japanese society and population. In World War II, crazy Japanese militarists forced a large number of people to join the army. In fact, not all Japanese were war madmen and war machines. The participation of all the people in the war in Japan is related to the traditions of Japanese society. Japan’s social system is different from all other countries in the world. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan’s traditional emperor system was combined with the Western constitutional monarchy system. In the new Japanese society, the emperor’s prestige among the Japanese people does not increase but decreases. Although the Japanese emperor rarely directly intervenes in Japanese political affairs, he has become a spiritual symbol of Japanese society.

Japanese militarists have grasped this point,They coerced the Japanese emperor into issuing a declaration of war. When the Japanese people thought that joining the army was to serve the so-called loyalty to the emperor, they were desperate to join the army and enlist. After the Japanese militarists had obtained sufficient sources of war troops, they began to implement their long-planned war plans. In Japan's war plan, China, Southeast Asia, and the United States have all become targets of Japanese aggression. Due to simultaneous operations in multiple theaters, even if the Japanese army had advanced weaponry at the time, it would still require millions of troops to maintain the war. Therefore, direct participation in the war is the most important reason for the population loss in Japanese society.

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

Japanese civilian casualties and Japanese population loss

In the latter part of World War II, the population problem became the biggest obstacle to maintaining the pattern of war in Japan. Due to the insufficient size of the army, Japan could not launch a large scale Japan’s offensive and passive defense have become Japan’s last resort strategy. As the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor dragged the United States into the abyss of war, the United States has become Japan's greatest enemy in the Pacific. In the latter part of the war, the United States not only achieved decisive victories in the midway island and other battles, but also sent the strategic bomber to carry out indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese mainland. The actions of the United States did not frustrate the determination of the Japanese to maintain the war. After being threatened by the bombing by the United States, the anger of the Japanese people was ignited, and many originally neutral people were forced to join the war.

Due to the shortage of troops, Japanese women even started to become crazy. Under the organization of the Japanese government, they went to various war zones to serve as logistic support personnel, imagining that they could win the war. In the Japanese society at that time, the Japanese people were even prepared for the destruction of all members under the control of the government. Until the United States successfully developed an atomic bomb and directly carried out two atomic bombings on the Japanese mainland, the Japanese people read the Armistice Declaration by the Emperor. Reluctantly put down the weapon in the sound of the broadcast. As of the eve of the Japanese surrender of , in addition to the direct loss of war soldiers, the death of Japanese civilians is another important reason for the loss of Japanese population.

Japanese prisoners of war and the loss of Japanese population

Japanese prisoners of war also caused a large loss of Japanese population.Because the Japanese military is notorious in the international community, Japanese prisoners of war rarely receive humanitarian treatment under the Geneva Convention . Of course, this does not include the humanitarian treatment of Japanese prisoners of war by China. After Japan surrendered, many Japanese prisoners of war were not repatriated, and many of them died in prison camps with harsh living conditions.

For example, after the surrender of Japan, there are still more than 600,000 Japanese Kwantung Army stranded in Northeast China. These Japanese prisoners of war were all sent back to China by the Soviet Union shortly afterwards, and they fought for them in the cold Siberia. Atonement, in the end, only tens of thousands of Kwantung Army prisoners of war returned to Japan alive. In addition, there are not a few Japanese soldiers captured by the US military and Southeast Asian countries. Moreover, in Northeast China, a large number of expatriates living under the rule of the Puppet Manchukuo have not been able to return to Japan. All these have had a significant impact on Japan's population loss.

Japan's post-war fertility policy

After the end of World War II, the Japanese government implemented a series of population policies to encourage fertility in order to quickly restore the population and develop the economy. Like most countries in the world, Japan’s first measure to restore its population is to implement birth rewards. At that time, Japanese couples who gave birth to children could apply for the state's maternity subsidy, and they could also enjoy social benefits such as education, housing, and employment, which stimulated Japan's population growth to a certain extent.

In order to rapidly increase the population, many actions of the Japanese government have also been criticized by the world. For example, in order to increase the population, the Japanese government has no bottom line to lower the childbearing age of Japanese women. At that time, the Japanese government lowered the childbearing age of women again and again, and 13 years old became the legal marriage age for Japanese girls. The physical development of 13-year-old girls is not yet healthy. Forcing them to give birth not only caused damage to the bodies of these girls, but also greatly reduced the overall quality of the newborn babies. The premature birth of underage girls has caused the newborns to have various congenital physical diseases. These newborns not only have to face a painful life when they are adults, but also increase the burden of Japanese society invisibly.

In addition, in order to rapidly increase the population, the Japanese government also mandates that Japanese couples who can bear children must have 5 children. These policies have plunged the Japanese people into dire straits, and Japanese women are even more affected. Serious physical and psychological damage. Due to the serious imbalance between the male and female ratios in Japan at that time, even with the adoption of the above-mentioned fertility policy, the population growth in Japan is still not optimistic.

American troops and Japanese illegitimate children

In order to rapidly increase the population, the Japanese government turned a blind eye to many social problems and allowed these problems to worsen, which directly led to the birth of a large number of mixed-race babies in Japanese society. As a defeated country in World War II, Japan must accept international control in accordance with international conventions. After a series of operations, the United States finally obtained the power to control Japan alone. Although the United States has a deep hatred with Japan, the two countries still maintained a peaceful relationship after the war. The United States needs to use Japan to maintain its interests in Far East , while Japan admires the power and force of the United States very much.

The United States played an important role in promoting Japan's post-war reconstruction and economic development, but it also brought serious sequelae to Japanese society. There were many American troops stationed in Japan at that time. These American soldiers often inhumanely assaulted Japanese women because of their physical needs. Many Japanese women became pregnant. Because the government allowed the American soldiers to do anything wrong, many Japanese women could only give birth to these illegitimate children in humiliation. Later, in order to alleviate the social conflicts that arose from this, the Japanese government restored the notorious comfort women system.

The Japanese government has specially established a place to solve the physiological needs of the US military and provides high wages for "comfort women". At that time, many Japanese women were widowed in the war. In order to survive, many people chose to work in this industry. Surprisingly, once this system was launched, more than 60,000 Japanese women enthusiastically signed up. Because contraceptive awareness and contraceptive measures were not perfect at that time, more and more Japanese women gave birth to mixed-race illegitimate children.

Conclusion

Later,Under pressure from the United States, the Japanese government cancelled the comfort women system. At the same time, the Japanese government encourages domestic women to freely love and associate with American soldiers. Moreover, a large number of cheap labor from Southeast Asia has poured into Japan to make a living, and some of them are also getting married and having children in Japan. All of these have contributed to the high proportion of mixed-race children in the Japanese society.