From the postwar period to the present day, life has changed dramatically in Japan through various changes, events and incidents.
The war is over 1945 Immediately after, Japan was poor in industrial destruction, huge casualties and poverty due to the air raids by the United States, and it did not seem to have been said to be the most developed country in East Asia.
So this time, let's take a look at the changes in Japanese life after the war.
Life in Japan from 1945 to 1945 after the war
Due to the air raids, people lost their homes, lived in temporary homes built in barracks, and lived or died. It seems to refer to the above-mentioned buildings.
It was black market that became popular in such a situation. is.
A black market is a place where goods are in short supply under a system that controls prices, and prices are illegally set outside the control and transactions are conducted based on a unique market economy principle. At this time, I couldn't buy anything even if I was short of things and had money, but if I went to the black market, I could make money say something and buy anything.
However, ordinary people did not have enough money to buy things in the black market, and most of them were in trouble.
Communism and the Korean War
A country suffering from poverty has a jinx that communism is prevalent, and Japan at that time was no exception. To briefly explain communism, it is a social philosophy that aims for an equal society by jointly owning some or all of the property.
However, the United States, which occupied and ruled Japan, was hostile to communism, and it is said that Japan was desperate to prevent it from flowing into communism.
Around this time, the Korean War broke out on the Korean Peninsula, and the United States had Japan produce military supplies to support South Korea. Due to the special demand in the Korean War, the demand for Japan has risen steadily, and with the support of the United States, somehow the path to postwar reconstruction has been paved.
High economic growth period from 1955 to 1950
Japan, which has begun to follow the path of reconstruction due to the special demand of the Korean War, has been reconstructed to almost the same level as before the war [ no longer after the war . ] Is now born.
1955-1960 Black and white TV / refrigerator / washing machine Home appliances that are now commonplace have become widespread in homes. It was also around this time that epoch-making apartments called housing complexes began to be built.
In addition, food has become more westernized, croquettes and omelet rice have become lined up on the table, clothes have become commonplace, and some people are going on overseas trips. It was around this time that the buzzword "Giant, Taiho, Egg Yaki" came out.
1964 An event that symbolizes the reconstruction of Japan will come to Japan.
It's the Tokyo Olympics.
Shinkansen and highways for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics Was improved, and the area around Tokyo was heated by the construction rush of buildings. Three new sacred treasures will appear in time for the Olympics, color TVs, coolers, cars 3C was a longing for the people.
In addition, 1970 The Osaka Expo was held in Japan, and the appearance of mobile phones, which are now commonplace, and walking walkways at airports has made all of Japan excited.
Living from 1975 to 1989
1980 , 35 years after the war Japan's GDP ranked second among the developed countries without any vestiges immediately after the war, and our lives became stable. At one point, there was a recession such as the oil crisis, but Japan continued to develop even more.
It was around this time that Takenoko-zoku such as Harajuku and pedestrian paradise appeared, and when you think about it now, it's nothing like a crap.
By the time the Showa era is about to end, the economy will continue to develop steadily, and word processors and personal computers will begin to spread to companies, although it will enter a period of stable growth and not as high as high economic growth. ..
It was also around this time that fast food stores such as McDonald's and Kentucky entered the market, and the first convenience store in Japan was born.
After that, who would have imagined a future in which personal computers and smartphones would become commonplace decades later, and even convenience stores could be found by walking? ??
Bubble economy
1985 In Japan, the bubble economy will arrive and the bubble economy will begin, triggered by the international conference that promoted the appreciation of the yen in Japan under the Plaza Accord.
1987-1991 , also known as the bubble era Until now, things that were unthinkable had happened in Japan.
The first is job hunting. At this time, job hunters did not go to the company for interviews, but the company entertained and locked in the job hunters. Some companies took them on overseas trips and prevented them from being taken by other companies ...
Because of that, my salary doubled in games, and the number of people who traveled to Hawaii and Europe after buying luxury brands increased at a stretch, and it was a time when the whole country was floating.
Now life in the Heisei recession
The people who were floating, but the good things did not last forever, and the bubble burst in 1991. With the bursting of the bubble economy, Japan's economy deteriorates like a lie, and a long and long economic stagnation, also known as the Heisei recession, begins.
Yutori education started around that time, and people who were still students at this time are called the Yutori generation. In addition, job hunting students cannot find employment in the middle [ Super Employment Ice Age ], And people between the ages of 35 and 45 are forced to find a job.
It seems that many companies are currently short of middle-aged human resources, thanks to the fact that the number of hires during this period has decreased to the point where there are no hires.
1990 In the late teens, Kogal, brown hair, and loose socks became popular due to the Amurer boom. Windows 95 It was around this time that personal computers became explosively popular with the release of Nintendo, and Nintendo's Super Nintendo and Sony PlayStation also appeared.
It is a good memory to be surprised at the telephone charges by connecting to the Internet by dial-up.
Current life in Japan
It is around this time that personal computers have become commonplace and most Japanese people use the Internet, but recently, the percentage of people who use smartphones to connect to the Internet has increased.
People who have one or more strokes on mobile phones have become commonplace, and people who are addicted to Internet video services such as YouTube due to the spread of the Internet have appeared one after another, and along with that, people who post videos have appeared, and people called YouTubers have appeared. To do.
Diversification has also been seen in clothing, food and housing, and we are now in an era of globalization where we can come into contact with various cultures. In this way, Japan changed from a painful life without anything shortly after the war to a prosperous life with rapid growth that no one expected.