The meals of Japanese army recruits looked good, but in fact they later became extremely irritable. A recruit who worked as a shipyard worker in Yokohama before joining the army said: "On the first day I joined the army, we had a particularly delicious meal, red beans cooked with glutinous rice, but just as we were eating, our boss said,' This is the last good meal you have ever eaten, and everything has become harsh since then. ""Later army and navy recruits usually had cold rice with pickles and a cup of herbal tea for breakfast, and they ate quickly so that they could go back and continue military exercises. Lunch may be rice with a little meat or fish, while dinner is just a bowl of Tonga with a little rice and vegetables. Generally speaking, most of them are rice balls and Zean (the kind that drowns radish). Six-year Food Standard of Japanese Showa:

Male: 640 grams

Mike: 200 grams

Canned meat: 150g (not available most of the time, especially in China war zone).

Dried vegetables:110g (corn)

Pickle: 40 grams

Soy sauce: 20g.

Salt: 12g

Sugar: 15g

Tea: 3g

In Dong's diary, which was a sensation not long ago, it was said in many places that the Japanese army's battlefield logistics support ability was very poor. A few days before the troops leave, they can still live on the rations brought by the soldiers, and then start dieting to lose weight. If you can't eat one rice a day (one contract is 0. 18 liter), vegetables are pickles or something, and a little milk sugar is very precious, and basically you can't see any animal food. Improving Food Only when the troops go to the rear to rest can they eat the basic food distributed according to military standards, or the troops "requisition food on the spot", which is actually * *. The numbers in the materials we are looking at now can only be eaten in the rear or during daily exercise. At that time, Japanese soldiers on the front line were rationed twice a month with candied milk, biscuits, candied beans, bean bags, mutton soup and other sweets. Japanese soldiers during World War II were particularly fond of sweets, which was probably related to poverty. At that time, Japan's logistics system was quite rubbish, especially food rationing (kids are cursing), so after the war began, the army's food rationing was ordered to be self-sufficient on the spot: grab it!

China's pigs and chickens are in trouble, and Japanese devils are worse than bandits in the war.

Memories of Japanese junior officers on the battlefield in Southeast Asia: Every time troops are transferred to their posts, they usually only bring rations for about five days. If they can't get to their posts within five days, they will send people into the jungle to hunt or collect wild fruits to satisfy their hunger at four o'clock every afternoon, and start to reduce their rations on the third day; And it also says that if the troops go to the front, they will bring the resident animals to provide meat. In the absence of food, the Japanese often kill prisoners of war, even their own comrades!

The food of the old Japanese army was poor, but there were some exceptions.

65438+73 1 0944 Spring Army Menu

Breakfast meeting for senior officials:

Egg bean curd, diced pork sauce soup, roasted chai fish, pickled elm, salted plum and other side dishes, fruit, white rice or bread, coffee.

Lunch for senior officials:

Soup or orange juice, roast beef, fried shrimp, stewed burdock pork, side dishes, fruit, white rice or bread, cold fruit and coffee.

Dinner for senior officials:

Beer or white wine, tuna sashimi, steamed pork, pea and tofu, shredded radish with vinegar, side dishes, fruits, white rice, candy and coffee.

Judge the following breakfast:

Pork diced green vegetable sauce soup, vinegar mixed with bamboo shoots, pickled elm vegetables, pickled plums and other side dishes, white rice.

Judge the following lunches:

Fried peanuts with pork, braised pork, side dishes, fruits, white rice and sometimes preserved fruits.

Judge the following dinner:

Raw squid slices, scrambled eggs with onion, ancient meat, white rice, candy, green tea.

This has a lot to do with the large number of experimental animals and food raw materials in 73 1 germ warfare troops.

imperial japanese navy

Officers on board or above:

breakfast

Dried fish, seaweed, miso soup, pickles, rice (Japanese people only eat porridge when they are sick). If someone wants to eat western food, they can also tell the orderly to prepare English breakfast such as coffee and porridge the night before. Officers who have studied abroad will not reject this western-style breakfast, but most of them still like Japanese breakfast.

Lunch-

The order of western-style dinner is soup, fish and meat. When eating in cold and hot weather, you need to put on your coat and eat according to British table manners.

The commander-in-chief of the joint fleet dines in his private room, accompanied by the orderly, and sometimes in the commander's hall, and at the same time entertains the important personnel of the fleet (according to etiquette, the commander-in-chief sits in the middle of one side of the table, and the chief of staff sits opposite him. Others include senior staff officers, adjutants, fleet translators, fleet meteorologists, fleet chief engineers, fleet controllers, fleet medical officers, fleet judge advocate general and flagship captains. ).

Officers' dining is divided into two levels: officer room and grass-roots officer room. Five minutes before the joint fleet commander dined, the military band gathered on the back deck to play semi-classical or European and American pop music instead of military songs and music. Even in the war, this tradition has been maintained, which can be regarded as the band's daily practice time. Most officers and men finished their lunch as soon as possible and enjoyed music on the back deck. However, this will only be held when the ship breaks down.

Dinner-

Japanese cuisine, including sashimi, kimchi, grilled fish, steamed eggs, miso soup, etc. There will be lobster, soft-shelled turtle and other local dishes when warships are in different places.

Officers who don't have enough to eat after meals will ask the orderly for leftovers. In fact, the kitchen specially cooked an extra pot to deal with these officers, and added a few poached eggs, soy sauce and vinegar as the second dinner.

The dishes on the ship vary according to the size of the warship. The bigger the dishes, the better. In the navy, the food in "Yamato Hotel" is the best, but Yamaguchi complains that there are too few dishes (he is a famous big stomach king).

Officers must pay for their own meals. Young officers tend to spend money like water, and secret service officers with families (officers promoted from non-commissioned officers) know how to save.

Ordinary soldiers:

I don't have to eat a full set of western food like an officer, and the dishes are also foreign, such as cream stewed chicken, curry beef and other foreign dishes, miso soup, fish, kimchi and other Japanese dishes. The staple food is rice mixed with barley. Breakfast is mainly rice and pickles. Breakfast is served at 7: 30, but when you want to get up before the wake-up call, in order to fill your stomach first, you will go to the kitchen and order something to eat first. Usually, the kitchen gives them barley, oil tofu, soy sauce, pickles and miscellaneous rice.

Influenced by the traditional diet, Japan's military logistics department has been trying to improve the pilots' meals. Take the pilots who bombed Chongqing as an example. Their staple foods were sandwiches and sushi, excellent tea and wine, and the most advanced lactic acid drinks at that time.

In addition, each pilot also distributed extra chocolates and high-quality candy.

Provide meals for British and American prisoners of war held in Japan

In terms of food, there are rice and soup for breakfast, rice and seaweed for lunch, and sometimes bread, which are brought to work by prisoners of war. Dinner also includes rice, soup and a vegetable, such as onion, potato, radish, cabbage or eggplant. There will be fish every 10 day and meat once or twice a month.

In catering, Japanese soldiers in charge of accounts provide rice and vegetables, and prisoners of war take turns cooking. The food is basically Japanese: a bowl of white rice, a bowl of miso soup and some pickles. In some camps, one meal of bread a day, meat or fish several times a month. However, with the shortage of Japanese food supply, protein-rich meat will disappear in the future. Usually, prisoners of war bring lunch boxes to work, and in some cases, companies that hire prisoners of war also provide some food.

One of the most serious problems of prisoners of war is hunger and malnutrition. Although the Japanese army claimed to have tried its best to provide food for prisoners of war in the most difficult period of the war, it is undeniable that prisoners of war were in a state of extreme hunger at the end of the war.

Prisoners of war will be severely punished for stealing vegetables from the fields, but no one will pay attention to catching snakes, turtles and frogs. In rare cases, prisoners of war will also receive packages from the Red Cross, but some prisoners of war said that they have never seen Red Cross materials.

The material supply of British and American civilian concentration camps is mainly provided by Japanese military authorities. In addition, there is a canteen in the concentration camp, and sporadic daily necessities can be purchased, allowing organizations such as the Red Cross to mail items in.

In addition to the basic diet, it is allowed to accept packages transferred by relatives and friends through the channels of the International Red Cross once a month. Food is rationed according to people. There must be recipes in the canteen. Although the variety is monotonous, basic nutrition can be maintained if the supply is normal. For patients and babies, there are some special supplies, such as milk.

. When the war is tight and supplies are scarce, the situation is very different. 1in the spring of 945, with the advance of the war, the material supply of Longhua foreigner concentration camp in Shanghai was in trouble, and there was a shortage of coal, grain and water.

1945 May 3 1, the food quota has been reduced to the lowest point:

Breakfast: four days a week-green tea; Three days a week-one ounce of porridge.

Lunch: a long spoon of boiled cabbage and a little bit of broken stomach, an ounce of potatoes and two ounces of beetroot.

Dinner: Cancel.

Total calories =300

These meals are delivered to families by the cooking squad. Once you leave the package sent every month, aliens may not live.

Meals for Japanese prisoners of war and laborers in China.

The Japanese were extremely cruel to the prisoners of war and laborers in China. The food is mixed with acorn powder and chaff, which is difficult to swallow. Under the great labor intensity, even the basic survival can not be guaranteed!

Food for Japanese prisoners of war in China.

The daily ration of Japanese prisoners is 17 2 meters and 8 noodles 16 dishes. They grow their own vegetables and mimeographed the tabloid Battle News. Of course, they are not fighting now, but in a concentration camp.

After the Japanese prisoners get sick, the light ones can rest in the barracks, and the heavy ones can live in the wounded soldiers' shelter. The food there is better than the concentration camp, and the medical treatment is timely. The ward is very clean. There is a beer bottle with blooming chrysanthemums on the small cabinet next to each bed.

Food for Japanese civilians

Japanese civilians implemented the material rationing system in wartime, starting with 194 1 According to the regulations, an adult's daily ration is 330 grams, and rice should be bought at the designated rice shop. The government also issued a decree prohibiting eating only white rice, requiring brown rice and polished rice to be mixed. Not to mention side dishes. It seems that at that time, the Japanese could only mix tofu with wild vegetables. Since 194 1, the ration of sugar, seasoning and fish has been reduced by half and continues to decrease. I don't think there is any oil or water for them to eat. 1944, when the Japanese fought, they even wanted soybeans and peanuts and extracted fuel from them. People's stored soybeans, sugar and rice wine have also been requisitioned to extract alcohol and use it as fuel. In wartime, Japanese schools and even playgrounds were used to grow food. Compared with the famine in Korea in previous years, the food problem is only serious to pediatrics.