The negotiations between Japan and the United States broke down, and the United States demanded that Japan completely withdraw from French Indochina, withdraw from North China, and withdraw from Northeast China, limiting Japan's territory to the state during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. (.) The Japanese cabinet made a big fuss.

On January 17, 2019, the Cabinet members of the Fumimo Konomima Cabinet quarreled over whether to use military service in the United States, and the Cabinet General resigned and "cut the mess quickly" and threw away his own troubles.

Koeme Fumi said afterwards: I am tired and have no energy to convince the cabinet members that anyone who wants to take this hot potato can do it. If you love anyone, it’s all my business to bring Japan to hell or heaven.

On January 18, when everyone was worried that there would be a gap in national policy implementation due to changes in the cabinet, Emperor Yuren ordered Tojo Hideki to form the cabinet with a lightning speed, and broke the convention and awarded the rank of General Tojo one month in advance.

At the first meeting of the new cabinet, Hideki Tojo explained his claim. He said: If we completely obey the US's claims, the results of the China Incident will be gone, and the land, people and resources that have been hard-working for decades will no longer exist. Since the China Incident broke out, Japan has had hundreds of thousands of casualties and several times more survivors, millions of troops and 100 million citizens working hard in the front and rear, and has already spent hundreds of billions of military expenditures. Therefore, we cannot succumb to the United States' tricks to contain, and we can only fight.

The Americans' demands are so severe that they have actually forced Japan to a dead end. Since the July 7 Incident in Japan, it has been deeply trapped in mud pits. In addition to the human resources losses of hundreds of thousands of casualties, it has also consumed huge economic and resources, and it has reached the point where it cannot be supported without further plundering.

China's southwest and northwest of plundering resources that can support the continued war are not considered. Those places are poor and not enough to support war. Except for China's unoccupied areas, there are only two places to choose from. One is to go north to occupy the Far East, and it happened that its ally Hitler was also desperately lobbying Japan to cooperate with its own battle.

But this road is extremely difficult to go, not to mention the distance, but to say the nearest. In order to seize Huatai Island Oil, the two countries had just fought a border war that lasted for several months, and Japan could not bear such huge casualties in the short term. Taking advantage of the opportunity of Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, they finally took advantage of the situation and ended the war with a "profit" state. At this time, they did not want to fight with Russia again. The main reason was that Russia's Far East troops remained unabated and could not reach the "ripe persimmon state" that Japan expected. Now they have little hope of attacking.

Moreover, Hideki Tojo was also worried about the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces within the Manchukuo State. In the agreement reached with the Russians, there was a piece: if Japan maintains peace with Russia, Russia would cut off the logistical support of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. Then, the other way, it would be explained that if Japan does not maintain peace with Russia, Russia would increase its support for the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.

The Anti-Japanese United Army is very powerful! Hideki Tojo already knows this. If these reactive resistance forces can receive continuous logistics supplies, it will be difficult to wipe out.

As the new Japanese leader, Hideki Tojo is certainly not "very stupid and naive". He knows what it takes to maintain the war, that is, a strong economy and strong material resources, but now he does not occupy any of these two.

Japan is currently facing two major crises: fiscal crisis and resource crisis.

From the perspective of the fiscal crisis, Japan automatically implemented a fiscal policy of vigorously expanding its military after the September 18th Incident. From the outbreak of the war of aggression to 1941, the special military expenditure reached 26.8 billion yen, most of which was used for the war of aggression in China.

In order to raise military expenses, Japan adopted the method of increasing taxes, overpricing government bonds and paper money, desperately increasing taxes, but its income was far from enough to cope with huge expenses. It also overpriced government bonds and paper money. By 1941 it was 37.3 billion yen. In 1938, its currency circulation soared from 2.6 billion yen in 1936 to 7.9 billion yen in 1941, resulting in more than doubled prices, the actual living standards of Japanese citizens fell by one quarter, and the national finances were facing collapse.

What is even more terrifying than the fiscal crisis is the resource crisis. Japan is a country with shortage of resources. Most of its resources depend on imports from abroad. Before the outbreak of the war of aggression against China (including Taiwan, North Korea and the puppet Manchukuo) was: 52.3% of iron ore, 1oo%, rubber, 8o% of oil, 63% of salt, 99.9% of cotton and wool, 67% of scrap steel, copper, aluminum, lead and zinc, etc., were all half and more than half. Japan expanded its arms and developed heavy industry, although it greatly expanded its military heavy industry production, resource imports also increased significantly. The import of oil alone increased from 2 million tons in 1931 to nearly 4 million tons in 1936, resulting in a significant increase in the balance of payments deficit.

Although there is an oil field in the Huatai Island Sea Area now, based on the production scale, it can only produce one million tons in the first year, and the gap reaches 2 million tons in the second year, but the gap is still a big gap. Moreover, even if it is mined, the refining capacity cannot keep up. The high-grade gasoline and heavy oil used by the Navy and Army still have to grab some of it to be enough.

By 1939, after significantly reducing the import of civilian materials, Japan's imports were 2.918 billion yen and exports were 3.576 billion yen. However, after deducting the import and export of the "Yen Circle (Public Manchukuo and the Japanese-invading Japanese-invaders)" that could not obtain gold and foreign exchange, the imports were 2.235 billion yen and the exports were 1.829 billion yen. The trade deficit!

The lack of economic power in Japan began to surface in 1939-194o. The first thing that occurred was the shortage of food supply. Due to the war, Japan's local grain production has been declining since 1939. Due to the war and local military supplies, the import amount of rice imported from Taiwan and North Korea has decreased year by year. It was 2.25 million tons in 1938, 1.45 million tons in 1939, and 480,000 tons in 194o. Japan has tried its best to do this.

Farmers were asked to sell the rice, wheat and other grain products they produced, except for eating and seeds themselves, to the government at the official price, implement grain distribution, prohibit ordinary restaurants and restaurants from selling rice, vigorously promote the consumption of alternative foods, and stipulate that breakfast cannot exceed 1 yen, lunch 2.5 yen, and dinner 5 yen. Even so, there is still a gap of 90,000 yen. For this reason, Japan had to take out 200 million yen of foreign exchange to French Indochina, and Thailand imported 80,000 yen rice.

Following the food crisis is the power and coal crisis. Due to insufficient coal, the electricity capacity can only meet 80% of the demand. For this reason, Japan has implemented economic controls, and even electric fan radios are listed as luxury goods.

For Japan, the biggest impact on its war of aggression against China was the resource crisis. By 1941, the resources controlled by Japan could only meet 88.3% of coal demand, 18.4% of oil, 42.4% of iron ore, 43% of copper, 15% of aluminum, and 18.4% of lead and zinc. To obtain these resources, one way is to import trade. Under the huge consumption of the war of aggression against China, Japan's balance of payments deficit reached 500 million yen from 1936 to 1941, and there was little gold and foreign exchange left, so Japan had to start using strategic reserve materials.

Japan's various measures adopted by it were invalid, such as expanding exports, compressing imports, plundering occupied land, and foreign borrowing, were invalid. In 1941, Japan's foreign debt balance was 1.25 billion yen. Therefore, since 1941, there was no possibility of commercial loans, and the plunder of occupied land was greatly restricted. Although China's (a area occupied by Japanese invaders) was sufficient to meet most of Japan's mineral needs, this was just a potential at that time. To open it up, it would take time and money. After several years of production capacity to support the war needs.

In this situation, Japan has only three choices: 1. Withdraw from China and end the war of aggression against China, but this is unimaginable for Japan. Not only is Japan's casualties reached hundreds of thousands, and it has consumed hundreds of billions of military expenditures, but this will explode the financial crisis covered by the war, leading to economic collapse. 2. Stop the war of aggression against China under favorable conditions, but it cannot be achieved under the tenacious resistance of China. According to Japan's estimate in 1941, it will take at least three years to win the war of aggression against China. Moreover, this is an estimate under the condition of China's lack of foreign aid. Japan's gold and foreign exchange reserves cannot support such a long time, so there is only the third road left, to advance south to plunder resources and plunder the industrial production capacity of the British, American, French and Dutch colonies to support the war against China.

Without plundering resources, not plundering industrial equipment, and not using the industrial production capacity that Britain, the United States, France and the Netherlands in the colonies over the past few decades, Japan will be dragged down by China to become poorer and weaker, and less and less able to fight wars. After a few years, the Chinese who have recovered from a large number of foreign aids, or Americans who are holding back their bargains, will kick the Japanese back to the four islands with just a slight kick, or occupy Japan, and from then on, they will ride on the Japanese people, well! I feel chilling when I think about it.

Instead of that, it would be better to take advantage of the fact that the war machine is still in full swing, plundering resources to strengthen itself, crippled the Americans, and forced them to withdraw from China. Maybe they can win! This is the idea of ​​all the cabinet members of Tojo Hideki's new cabinet.

On January 21, in the office of the editor-in-chief of the Sing Tao Daily newspaper in Singapore, a tanned Japanese was complaining to the editor-in-chief, complaining that the editor-in-chief had published the photos he took in Japan on the front page of the newspaper.

"How can you do this? Mr. William, didn't we agree at the beginning? These photos are not published and are now published in the newspaper. Didn't you harm me?"

The Japanese pointed to several pictures in the newspaper, which clearly showed that the Japanese Navy aircraft were training. One photo shows a torpedo bomber and a dive bomber jumping out from behind the hill, and the other photo shows a low-altitude torpedo when the plane flew to the coast. The text description is: A training photo of the Japanese Joint Fleet Kagoshima. It is reported that the terrain of Kagoshima Bay is similar to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the United States. Do the Japanese want to bomb Pearl Harbor?

There are also commentators' speculation articles, saying: Tourists returning from Japan also found that in addition to Kagoshima, there are also water, Kaya, Saki and other places, and a large number of joint fleet torpedo aircraft are conducting low-altitude attack training. Such training has lasted for more than three months.

The newspaper also published a hand-drawn comparison of the terrain between Kagoshima Bay and Pearl Harbor. In addition, the commentator also suggested that you find a fantasy novel called "The Great Pacific War" written by Byvort to take a look, which contained the idea of ​​attacking Pearl Harbor.

This is simply a possibility of promoting a naked #naked #naked #naked -- the Japanese Navy will attack Pearl Harbor.

The Sing Tao Daily often produces some unexpected things, regardless of whether it is a gimmick that attracts attention. Anyway, many newspapers do not choose to reproduce the "alerious" information published on it.

The editor-in-chief is a British man, with blue eyes shining in his deep sockets. He obviously doesn't want to pay attention to the Japanese complaints and doesn't want to listen to the Japanese nagging. What would be investigated? He should hide for a while, and he should go to the United States now. The tickets for boats are very expensive, etc.

"Oh, didn't I give you ten thousand dollars? My friend, you got a lot!"

The Japanese almost cried in a hurry, "But you didn't follow the agreement not to publish it. Now I'm in danger. Do you know if I'll be chased?"

"If you are hunted, it means that the Japanese are going to attack Pearl Harbor and you have made great contributions." The editor-in-chief obviously knew the meaning of this Japanese man's entanglement for a long time. He reluctantly took out an envelope from the drawer, glanced at the envelope and said, "Okay, in order for you to arrive in the United States smoothly, I personally decided to sponsor you another boat ticket, luxury cruise first class, how about it?"
Chapter completed!