Li, Enhan, “Riben zaihua zhong de fan du huodong (1937-1945)” [Japan's involvement in drug trafficking in central China, 1937-45] (1998)

Title : “Riben zaihua zhong de fan du huodong (1937-1945)” [Japan's involvement in drug trafficking in central China, 1937-45]

Author(s) : Li, Enhan

Year : 1998

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : foreigners;war

Journal : Zhongyang yanjiuyuan xiandaishi yanjiusuo jikan (Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)

Volume : 29

Start page : 179

End page : 222

Language:Name : Chinese

Support : Print

Abstract : By the time of its attack on Shanghai in July 1937, Japan was the only major power with a policy of selling narcotics in China. This policy's objectives were: generating profits to underwrite conquest and occupation costs; raising Japanese and Korean living standards; and weakening the Chinese people and their will to resist. Implementation of this "narcotics war" in Shanghai, Hankou (now within Wuhan), and Nanjing, where the Chinese puppet government (established 1940) participated in the program, produced immense profits during the years 1937-45.