Why did many Japanese soldiers wear glasses during World War II, which did not affect the war?

Although Zongheng has never been a soldier, he also knows that the physical examination of a soldier requires high eyesight and has strict hard standards. Once the eyesight is not up to standard, it is a bit difficult to become a soldier.

Look at the photos of World War II. Why do many Japanese soldiers wear glasses? Doesn't it affect the operation? Today, I will sort out with you why there were so many Japanese troops during World War II. Glasses? .

At the beginning of World War II, Japanese glasses soldiers were the high-quality performance of the Japanese army.

Glasses are a symbol of cultural people. Few people are born with myopia, and many of them are caused by excessive use of their eyes. Of course, those who wear glasses may not be illiterate, and those who are literate may not wear glasses, but in a high probability, wearing glasses is positively related to literacy.

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has made education a top priority. 1872 promulgated the academic system and began to promote and reform education, although Japanese education instilled? Loyal to the monarch and patriotic militarism? However, the lack of universal education has promoted the cultural development of Japan. Before the Russo-Japanese War 1902, the primary school enrollment rate reached 90%, and primary education was basically popularized. 1907, the Japanese government extended the duration of compulsory education from 4 years to 6 years, and by 1920, the proportion of compulsory education in Japan reached 99%.

While strengthening the popularization of compulsory education, Japan is also promoting university education, from 5 in 9 18 to 46 in 1929, and the number of students has also increased from 9,040 to 67,555. It can be seen that the education development level of Japan before World War II was the most developed country in Asia.

Of course, Japan's military education is also an extremely developed country. Every Japanese officer has experienced military school education. Japan's military education system includes an army junior school with a three-year academic system, and then the army sergeant school is upgraded according to the results. After graduation, I worked as an intern in the United front, and then applied for the Army University.

There is no relevant information about the academic system of the Army University, but by looking for Japanese war criminals who graduated from the Army University, it can be concluded that most of the students are about eight years old.

It can be said that if you want to be an officer in Japan, you must have gone through a very complicated study. It is difficult for people who have not experienced a complete military education to become officers. Because of this, many officers and men wore glasses in World War II.

The education level of modern China is in sharp contrast with Japanese education.

From the perspective of war, educated people are also more powerful than uneducated people in fighting, because educated people have their own beliefs and high enthusiasm for fighting, especially those who have been educated in patriotism, and know how to serve the country better.

In the distribution of arms, educated people are more suitable for armored tanks, artillery, engineers, scouts and other arms, while uneducated soldiers can only be Depth Charge, that is, cannon fodder, if their IQ is not enough.

In ancient China, imperial examination education was the forerunner and elite education was the main form. Only a small number of people can learn. It was not until the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty that the imperial examination was abolished and modern schools were established. At the same time, primary education in Japan was popularized.

After the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China did not pay enough attention to education in the warlord melee, and China's education was gradually established by boxer indemnity.

Of course, it was the Japanese who had the deepest influence on China's education in modern times. At that time, a large number of intellectuals went to Japan to study, and then returned home to feed back China's education. As far as military education is concerned, there were as many as 1600 China students who graduated from the Japanese Army NCO School before World War II, while the Baoding Military Academy, which was established for nine periods in the early Republic of China, only trained more than 6,000 people.

Chiang Kai-shek didn't even get an army sergeant in Japan, but he got a diploma at Zhenwu School in Tokyo.

But Chiang Kai-shek also knew the importance of educated youth on the battlefield. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek once put forward a famous slogan? An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, 100 thousand young people and 100 thousand troops? Chiang Kai-shek said in his speech: Young intellectuals are knowledgeable and have the ability to judge automatically. An increase in the ranks of young intellectuals is equivalent to an increase of ten ordinary soldiers? .

Most of the student soldiers recruited by Chiang Kai-shek were trained in special skills, and they did not take the lead.

Japanese government's requirements for soldiers to join the army during World War II

No matter how high the culture is, you are afraid of kitchen knives. Before World War II, even though the Japanese army tried its best to let intellectuals join the army, it did not mean that the Japanese army had no standards for conscription, especially in the early stage of the war, and it still attached great importance to the selection of soldiers.

Before World War II, the Japanese government classified the school-age youth who joined the army into five categories according to their physical indicators, namely, A, B, C, D and E. Those who fully met the requirements for joining the army were classified as A, those with poor eyesight were generally below B, those with poor intelligence or height below 145cm were classified as D, and those who were completely unsuitable for military service were classified as E.

Generally speaking, grades A and B are in active service; Class c is national military service; D exemption from military service; E and so on. For next year's physical examination.

It can be seen that myopia is still within the allowable range to a certain extent, but if it is severe myopia, it may not be an active soldier, but a reserve. But by the end of World War II, a large number of glasses soldiers appeared, which was different from the education mentioned above. This is purely because there are not enough people, and the blind are going to the battlefield.

A large number of Japanese troops appeared in the middle and late World War II? Glasses? Not enough hands.

The United States should be regarded as the country with the highest vision requirement in the war.

Watching American TV plays during World War II, you should see that American soldiers seldom wear glasses. An interesting thing is that President Truman, who insisted on dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II, joined the army in his early years because of his vision problems. Later, he recited his vision chart to get away with it. It is also an anecdote.

Although Japan has always wanted to do better than the United States, its own strength is there and it is impossible to surpass the United States.

Although there were decent medical officers in Japan at that time, Japanese soldiers were divided into three classes according to their physical fitness.

At the time of the September 18th Incident, there were only 365,438+00,000 active servicemen in Japan, most of whom were able to cope with the first class. After the Battle of Wuhan, the scope of Japan's operations continued to expand, especially the outbreak of the Pacific War, which exposed the problem of insufficient Japanese troops.

At this time, not only the second-class military service should go to the front line, but also those below the second-class military service actively requested to join the army.

1942 in may, in order to cope with the shortage of soldiers, the military provincial medical bureau issued a summary of the physical fitness of able-bodied men, which reduced the qualified line of physical examination for conscription. "Summary" specifically put forward? Even those able-bodied men with diseases, physical or mental abnormalities should try to qualify if they are considered as not hindering their joining the army? .

In addition to physical conditions, Japan will also raise the service age from the upper limit of 40 to 45. These elderly Japanese soldiers have serious presbyopia, so wearing glasses became the norm of the Japanese army in the late World War II.

It can be seen that soldiers in World War II wore a lot of glasses, which exposed how shameless and outrageous the Japanese militaristic government was at that time.