Japanese hunger plan

Could japan launch something like the hunger plan on occupied parts of china before the invasion of Indochina to weaken Chinese Resistance

Would this encourage a western or soviet intervention or just sanctions

Would this heavily weaken Chinese Resistance in the occupied areas

How many people would die

If japan launches an attack on the west , Would this affect its post war treatment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan
 
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Could japan launch something like the hunger plan on occupied parts of china before the invasion of Indochina to weaken Chinese Resistance

Would this encourage a western or soviet intervention or just sanctions

Would this heavily weaken Chinese Resistance in the occupied areas

How many people would die

If japan launches an attack on the west , Would this affect its post war treatment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan

... they were kind of already doing that, at least in practical terms. It was the policy of the Japan that the occupation forces were more or less expected to feed themselves, and mass confiscation of food was by no means uncommon in areas they controlled. If they wanted to rachet it up, I suppose they certainly COULD, but its probably counter-productive and would be bound to increase Chinese resistance rather than reduce it. After all, attempts to install "Chinese" puppet governments woulden't be viable under such a plan, and peasents who would have otherwise resigned themselves as they had under the Warlords and more corrupt Nationalist areas would now be in a position to lose the one thing of value they had left; their lives. I fully expect to see an upswing in support for the Anti-Japanese forces, including guerrilla activity/passive sabotage, and Japan streched thinner through the countryside due to fewer collaborators and the need to confiscate more supplies at gunpoint.
 
They were dependent on Chinese collaborator governments to collect taxes & in general run occupied China to Japans benefit. A hunger plan has to be well enough targeted and organized to exclude collaborator Chinese & include the resistance.
 
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