Opium: Fifty Years of Japanese Drug Policy in Invasion of China (1895-1945)
by Wang Hongbin
About This Novel
From the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in 1895 to the Japanese Emperor's unconditional surrender in 1945, for half a century, the Japanese aggressors carried out an insidious and vicious policy of poisoning in the Chinese occupied areas in a planned, organized and step-by-step manner. The implementation of this poisoning policy had two evil purposes: one was to plunder social wealth through the open peddling of opium, morphine and heroin and use poison to support war; the other was to anesthetize the Chinese people to the maximum extent so as to reduce their resistance to the invaders and achieve the effect of strengthening colonial rule. The judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East clearly stated that Japan's opium monopoly "is nothing more than a tax collection agency that rewards the use of narcotics."
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