The Japanese did rob many things from China, including gold and silver treasures, porcelain calligraphy and painting. Anyway, anything valuable can be taken, and coal, iron ore and wood, which are important to the economy and the military, are also indispensable.

But Japan is a small country with limited resources and huge military expenditure. In the latter part of World War II, Japan's finance had been unable to make ends meet. An important fact is that the United States almost took more than 80% of the world's gold after the war, and more than half of the scientists took it (there was a war in Europe, and many scientists and rich people went to the United States).

After the war, the United States became rich, and the whole of Europe recovered under its Marshall Plan. Japan's economic recovery was driven by the military orders of the American Korean War. After the war, Japan was in a mess and the people were hungry and cold. If it were not for the military orders of the Korean War, Japan would not be much better than India. ...