“军票”亦称“军用手票”,是日本在侵略他国时用于其军队内部和在占领地区强行流通的一种临时性货币。早在1918年日本侵占苏联西伯利亚期间就曾发行过军票。“七七事变”后,日寇发动了全面侵华战争。据编号《支那事变军票史》的日本作者清水善俊称:当时日本侵略者为“筹措军费”、“减少使用本国货币和外汇”、“维护本国通货制度”、“打击抗战力量”、“破坏抗战的经济基础”,以“顺利达到战争的目的”,于1937年10月21日召开内阁会议,正式决定在中国的“华中地区”(即今华东、华中地区)使用“昭和十二年军用手票”(简称“军票”);在作出这一决定的同一天,由大藏省通知陆军省和日本银行立即执行;24日日本内阁印刷局向日本银行 Military ticket, also known as “military ticket”, is a temporary currency that Japan uses forcible circulation within its own military forces and in the occupied territories while invading other countries. As early as 1918, Japan had issued military war tickets during the Soviet occupation of Siberia. After the “Seventy-Seven Incident”, the Japanese invaders launched an all-out war on China. According to Shimizu Shimizu, a Japanese author of the history of military changes in the Chinna Incident: At that time, the Japanese aggressors were “raising military expenditures,” “reducing the use of their domestic currency and foreign exchange,” “maintaining their own currency system,” “cracking down on the resistance forces,” “ Destroy the Economic Foundation of the War of Resistance Against Japan and ”Smoothly Achieve the Purpose of the War“ and held a cabinet meeting on October 21, 1937, officially deciding to use the ”12-year military program of the Showa era in the Central China region (now the East China and Central China regions) On the same day that the decision was made, the Ministry of Finance notified the Army Province and the Bank of Japan that they should immediately implement the decision. On the 24th, the Cabinet Office of Japan issued a statement to the Bank of Japan