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War reparations are payments intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war. Generally, the term ''war reparations'' refers to money or goods changing hands, but not to the annexation of land. == History == Making the defeated party pay a war indemnity is a common practice with a long history. In ancient times, the imposition of reparations on a defeated enemy was often the beginning of forcing that enemy to pay a regular tribute. Rome imposed large indemnities on Carthage after the First and Second Punic Wars.〔Livy. Ab urbe condita (The Early History of Rome, books I–V, and The History of Rome from its Foundation, books XXI–XXX: The War with Hannibal), London; Penguin Classics, 2002 and 1976.〕 Some war reparations induced changes in monetary policy. For example, the French payment following the Franco-Prussian war played a major role in Germany's decision to adopt the gold standard. The 230 million silver taels in reparations imposed on defeated China after the Sino-Japanese War led Japan to a similar decision.〔Metzler, M. 2006. Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「War reparations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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