Today's article is a bit long.
Let's start with this matter: Today, the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry released such a piece of news: In January this year, Japan's industrial sector was **75%！
Automobile production fell the most, down 17 percent month-on-month8%！
What's the concept? Look at another piece of news: Some time ago, the China Association released data saying that in January this year, our car exports were 4430,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 474%, continue to continue the rapid growth momentum!
When these two numbers are contrasted, they are too stark! But it's not as simple as a comparison of numbers!
Because of the retribution of history, we may soon see it!
What retribution? Let's not talk about it yet!
Let's talk about it at the end!
It all started in 1925.
In the same year, Ford Motor entered Japan, setting up an assembly plant there, first assembling Ford's famous Model T, and then trucks.
With Ford coming in, the Japanese finally figured out how to build a car!
As we said before, Japan is a country, in fact, in the past 150 years, it has basically taken a smooth road, no matter what difficulties it encounters in front of it, there will be countries that will run out and violently take it away!
It's the same with the automotive industry! In "Memoirs of the Second World War", Churchill put it very bluntly:Uncle Sam and Britannia were the godparents of the new Japan, and in less than two generations, the Japanese people, who had little background beyond their long past, progressed from samurai two-handed swords to ironclad ships, rifle line cannons, torpedoes, and Maxim machine guns. Britain and the United States are neither related to the Japanese nor have any causes, so why are they so enthusiastic to run out to be Japan's "godfather and godmother"? Churchill also put it plainly:The goal is simple, that is, to let Japan surpass China, and then defeat China! If I put it more simply, it would be:Since the 1860s, that is, since the Meiji Restoration, Britain and the United States have made up their minds to use Japan as a gun, and then use it to control us and plunder us. Why? Because soon, the products of these American car companies, will go to war. Aggression against China! These American companies mentioned above, especially Ford-made trucks, participated in the war of aggression against China on a large scale, transporting troops, ammunition and supplies for the Japanese! Or an absolute workhorse! The existence of these trucks was definitely a disaster-like thing for China at that time: because of the squadron at that time, the march could only rely on two legs, and the transportation of materials basically relied on the shoulders. Compared with two legs, one shoulder, and four wheels, it is not enough to outrun it, and it is far inferior to the things it can carry! The truck itself does not kill people, but the Chinese who die because of the truck are countless! To what extent? Here's a number: From 1937 to 1941, Japan produced more than 100,000 trucks a year! In the last few pictures, let's take a look at the American trucks on the Anti-Japanese War. The Ford truck has a very obvious mark: it has a very long front end, so it's easy to recognize. 
This is the Japanese army truck during the Battle of Taierzhuang. 
This is a Ford truck that was overturned by the Japanese army because of carelessness during the battle in Shanxi in 1938. 
This is a Japanese army unit in action, and the car at the beginning is a round-headed one, which is made in Nissan, Japan, but the cars in the back are all long-headed and Ford-made. How so? We must know such a reality: for most of the time of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan and the United States have been hooking up, and the relationship between the two sides is very deep, and it is by no means as simple as a commercial relationship! As a result, the attack on Pearl Harbor broke out, after which Japan was defeated. But history is weird: because of Ford's investment, even if Japan was defeated, it still left it with many engineers and workers who knew how to build cars! As I said before, at the beginning of the defeat, the attitude of the Chinese people towards the Japanese was called a gnashing of teeth, and almost everyone at that time said that Japan must be turned back into an agricultural country! The Americans themselves have made it very clear that they will not take responsibility for restoring and prospering the Japanese economy. Not even "restoration", that is, reconstruction! Unexpectedly, the luck of the Japanese was good, and this situation did not last long, and history gave the Japanese automobile industry the first splash of wealth. In 1950, the Korean War broke out. The Americans immediately decided: in order to support the war, let Japan *** recover! How to recover it? Here's a simple example: they immediately shipped 100 Willis jeeps from China, called Mitsubishi's people, and directly authorized them to hurry up and reverse the copycat products! At the same time, Toyota and everything else have all won large war orders, as well as almost free American technology import! To what extent? Fuji Heavy Industries, which originally built airplanes, also came out at this time and said that I wanted to build cars; There is even more nonsense, Suzuki originally made textile machines, and seeing that making cars made money, the Americans were also willing to give technology and built cars! As a result, by 1951, the Japanese economy had returned to its pre-war level! Faster than the USSR, the USSR had to go until 1953! But during this time, the Japanese didn't have much money on hand and couldn't afford to burn gas, but they wanted cars, so these car builders coincidentally built a strange kind of car: a three-wheeled car! Above. 
Doesn't it feel like a farm vehicle? At that time, the roads in Japan were not good, and these three-wheeled vehicles were flexible and durable, which was suitable for the road conditions at that time. In 1950, the production of three-wheeled vehicles in Japan reached 40,000 units! But this kind of car can only be driven in Japan, and no one wants it for export! So how did the Japanese automobile industry change from three-wheeled to four-wheeled, and then rise? The Japanese unexpectedly came up with a strange trick! Engage in ** protection, and impose high tariffs on all foreign imported cars! Let them not get in! Seeing this, do some people think that the Japanese at that time were a little funny: Japan's nickname has always been "Little Japan", your country is small, the population is not large, and you are still engaged in **protectionism, not afraid of retaliation? Actually, it's not funny at all, the Japanese did it right at the time! The perception that Japan is "Little Japan" is a misconception that we have had for a long time: if you look at the whole world, Japan is not small at all, but big! Until 1968, Japan was the fifth most populous country in the world: after China, India, the Soviet Union and the United States! Germany, Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, etc., the population is inferior to it! Even Brazil, a large country with an area of 8.5 million square kilometers, was not as populous as it was before the 1970s! How so? At that time, Japan was the fifth largest market in the world in terms of population size. If you look at it in terms of per capita income, it is likely to be the third largest market in the world! Look at the name of the automobile policy promoted by Japan in 1955, and you will understand: the "National Automobile" plan! If a country's domestic market is big enough, many industries can start from the domestic market first, and then release it to the international market to kill all sides! Many people think that Japan's economic development model, like South Korea, Frog Island, Singapore, Hong Kong or something, is to first rely on foreign trade to earn foreign exchange, and then step by step transformation, in fact, that is wrong! Japan's development model is actually quite similar to what we have now! It's all about domestic demand to do it first, and then to do export sales! Japan's home appliances, automobiles and even high-speed rail industries have all developed in this way, but we are too big, so we think that Japan is small, but in fact, it is not small at all in the world, at that time! Japan's automobile industry first relied on closing the country and not allowing foreign cars to come in, relying on domestic demand, and the peers rolled up with each other, which developed from three-wheeled vehicles to four-wheeled vehicles. In 1960, Japan produced 480,000 cars, but exported just over 30,000 vehicles! Only 6% of its total production! Why is this so? Because at that time, both Europeans and Americans liked cars with large displacement, and Japanese cars had small displacement, small space, and thin bodies, and the international market didn't like it very much! But it doesn't matter, soon history will send it 3 more splashes of wealth one after another! The first was the Muskie Act of 1972. It all started in San Francisco, where locals found a strange smell in the city since the 1950s, and the sky over the city was always foggy, and many people died inexplicably! Later, when I checked, the roar turned out to be caused by car exhaust! The U.S. Congress passed the Muskie Act, which required that car exhaust be reduced to one-tenth of its original size. The manufacturers in the United States never thought of this, and they were immediately caught off guard, none of them met the standards, and they were suddenly wiped out! At this moment, the Japanese stood up and said: ours meets! It turns out that Japan lacks resources, and every drop of oil it burns has to be imported, so in order to save foreign exchange, it has developed fuel-saving technology early, and the oil is saved, and the exhaust gas emissions are smaller! Japanese car sales are soaring! Then, the second splash of wealth came: on October 6, 1973, the Middle East, which had been calm for many years, suddenly burst into flames of war, and the Egyptian and Syrian armies, one south and one north, launched a fierce attack on Israel. While the United States is frantically sending ** to Israel, it is threatening Egypt and Syria to stop their march, otherwise the US military will send troops directly! The Arab countries of the Middle East were so angry that they announced an oil embargo on the countries that supported Israel! It didn't take long for international oil prices to soar 4 times! European and American car owners are complaining! Because from 1950 to 1973, the world's oil resources were almost entirely monopolized by seven major international oil companies, known as the "Seven Sisters", who worked together to squeeze oil exporting countries and suppress international oil prices on the other, and even for a long time, only half of coal, almost 1 per barrel$8! It doesn't cost a lot of money to refuel a large-displacement car! Then everyone found out: Japanese cars are very fuel-efficient, so they rushed to buy them! In that year, Japan's automobile exports reached 2 million units! It didn't take long for the third splash of wealth to come again: in 1979, there was a revolution in Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty was overthrown, and international oil ** soared again, jumping from $15 to $39 in 1981! Japanese cars are selling again: in 1980 Japan produced more than 11 million cars, and exported 6 million that year! It was also in this year that Japan surpassed the United States to become the world's largest exporter of automobiles! This is the apex of the Japanese automotive industry, but we all know that when the apex comes, the next step is the downhill road, and no matter how big or small the slope is, it always has to go down. The Americans are ready to get angry! Because they found that in 1980, Japan had become its largest importer of automobiles, with a market share of more than 20%, and for every five cars sold in the United States, there was at least one Japanese car. American auto companies, including Ford and Chrysler, who taught Japan how to make cars, are all complaining: Sure enough, they are church apprentices, and they are killed! Because of the impact of Japanese cars, the number of unemployed American workers is as high as 200,000! At the same time, because the Japanese have been engaged in high tariffs since the 1950s, American cars cannot be exported to the Japanese market! If you can't compete, then come to the side! The National Federation of Automobile Workers immediately launched an activity: smashing Japanese cars in public! The Japanese were immediately frightened! It's an American colony! Then the United States came forward again and put pressure on it, and Japan knelt down: it agreed to "voluntarily restrict the export of cars to the United States", which was 1.68 million in 1981 and 1.93 million in 1982. After the expiration, the Americans calculated it and suddenly became angry again! Because Japan really didn't sell many cars, but they concentrated their efforts and sold the luxury cars with the highest added value to the United States, making cars like Acura, Lexus and Infiniti! The export volume is less, but the amount has risen! What to do? In 1985, it forced Japan and other countries, mainly against Japan, to sign a Plaza Accord that demanded a sharp appreciation of the yen, and as a result, Japan's competitiveness in exporting goods was greatly reduced. The Japanese also know that the matter is big, so they can only obediently go to the United States to set up factories, which does not affect the employment rate in the United States, and the United States does not pay much attention to it, so in the past two or three decades, Japanese cars have accounted for almost 40% of the market share in the United States. The Americans used this method to subdue the Japanese cars. But the Japanese don't care, because even if they are prostrate under the feet of the Americans, there is still a lot of food to eat: if there are ready-made things, what innovation is there to do? But it didn't expect that the opponent came. Who is this opponent? Now everyone knows: it's us! (The relevant content has been said before, so I won't talk about it here, see it for details.)Time is running out for Japan! ）！We have already surpassed Japan last year to become the world's largest exporter of automobiles! At this point, I have to talk about a past incident: in 1928, Zhang Xueliang, the "King of the Northeast" at that time, issued an order to try to build a car in the mortar factory run by the Northeast military officer! It's a tough task! You know: even the Japanese, it was only after Ford set up a factory in 1925 that they figured out how to build a car, and only a few years later did they get on the truck project! So almost in sync with Japan! As a result, no one expected that in June 1931, this mortar factory actually built trucks, and a total of 10 vehicles with a load of 25 tons! At that time, Zhang Xueliang was very happy and announced that its brand was called "Minsheng"! 
As a result, I never expected: only 3 months later, the "918 Incident" broke out, the Japanese occupied the Northeast, and these cars and the equipment for making cars also fell into the hands of the Japanese! After the Japanese got these equipment, cars, and drawings for building cars, they were very happy, and quickly arranged for a person named Kiichiro Toyoda to take over, so that he could build cars according to these things! This man had never built a car at all, he had built textile machinery before! After taking over this company, Kiichiro Toyoda immediately changed the name of the Minsheng brand car to "Toyota Type 31C", and with this, the textile machinery company also changed its name to Toyota Motor, and then began to embark on the road of manufacturing cars! That's how Toyota came to be, and it's still the number one car manufacturer in Japan!
At this point, you understand what kind of historical retribution it is, right?
In Japan, the importance of the automotive industry is unmatched by any other industry!
Because it involves so many people in Japan!
Someone once made such a statistic: Japan's largest car manufacturer is Toyota, which has 7 automobile headquarters80,000 people.
Various other companies, including investment companies, add up to 360,000 people.
But Toyota can't make all the parts, so it still has a leading supplier.
There are almost 500 first-class merchants;
There are about 5,000 second-class merchants;
*and below** merchants, about 30,000!
How many of these people are combined?
That's almost more than 1.4 million!
Add its own 360,000 and there are 1.76 million!
How many of these 1.76 million people account for Japan's working population?
In other words: 3 out of 100 employees in Japan are related to Toyota!
But there are not only Toyota car companies in Japan, but a whole bunch of them!
So this industry involves a total of about 5 million people!
These people are old and young, so there are even more people involved, one figure says nearly 15 million, more than 10% of the total population of Japan!
There was such a saying before: if Japan's automobile industry fails, then in the next few years, it will be possible for the per capita GDP of China and Japan to converge at 25,000 US dollars, and then the Chinese will go up, and Japan will go **!
At this point, everyone understands what kind of retribution this is, right?
Over the past 150 years or so, everything Japan has gained, whether by stealing, robbing, or relying on good luck, has long been destined to be cut off piece by piece by the sharp blade of history.
This is called historical retribution! I'm waiting for that moment!
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