She wants our children emaciated, flies on their faces carrying empty rice bowls.
I’ve asserted for quite some time that the self-defined “elite” desire a huge difference between their lives and that of the masses.
Since they have diminishing returns on making their lives better, the easier way to increase the difference is to diminish the lives of others.
The Japanese were losing the war. They needed minerals like coal and sulfur. They didn't have unlimited prison camp resources, yet there were burgeoning numbers of prisoners headed to the Japanese mainland.
I don't believe they were inclined to take prisoners, except for the work they could do (at a price no Japanese would work, except perhaps their own prisoner/criminals).
The Japanese chose to save themselves money by carefully controlling the prisoners' feeding regimen and providing fewer calories than it would require to sustain them indefinitely. Under that regimen, (with special graces of not having to be on the strenuous work details others had because he was a hospital ward orderly) my father, who went in weighing 160lbs, came out weighing 88lbs. after two and a half years.
Dad said, "[the Japanese camp] was a meat-grinder." It took in prisoners, worked the prisoners, turned their flesh into hard work, and buried them after they expired a couple of years later. Fresh men came in to replace the dead ones, so the process was potentially continuous--but for the end of the war.
Dad's parents didn't recognize him three months after the war ended (after he's had those months to recuperate), when he appeared on their doorstep unannounced.
HF