This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. On March 25, Makoto, a researcher at the Institute of International Peace at Meiji College, Japan, also donated a batch of Japanese archives and historical materials about the Japanese invaders forged legal currency of the National Government in Hong Kong to the Guangdong Provincial Archives. This is the first time that the Japanese invaders carried out a "counterfeit banknote war" in South China that the original Japanese crime of invading the Japanese army in South China has appeared in China, confirming the fact that the Japanese army used "counterfeit banknotes" to plunder China's wealth during World War II. At the same time, he also donated the album of the 104th Japanese Division that invaded Guangdong, which is of great significance to studying the history of Japanese invasion of China.
This batch of archival historical materials records the plan of the General Staff of the Japanese Army Province and the "Chinese" dispatched troops of the Japanese invaders on the large-scale forging of the National Government's legal currency in Hong Kong, China, and records in detail the amount, location, process, flow of spoils, and usage regulations of the forged legal currency.
Xiao Zili, professor at the School of History and Culture of South China Normal University, said that this batch of archival historical materials has important research value. The "financial war" of the Japanese invaders against China caused great harm to China's economic and financial order at that time. The large-scale injection of "counterfeit banknotes" caused inflation, and they could also embezzle strategic materials, foreign exchange, etc. to achieve the ambition of "fighting war to support war".
Makoto Masato has repeatedly donated evidence of crimes such as the 731st Unit of the Japanese invasion of China during World War II, including bacterial warfare materials of the Japanese invasion of China and other crimes. On the same day, Makoto Matsuno also shared the history and research experiences related to "secret wars" such as Japan's "counterfeit money war" against China during World War II and the "poisonous gas war" of the Japanese army in South China, and expressed his wish for peace based on history.
(Reporter Chen Huiting of the General Station)
