In mid july, it was announced with fan fare that 50 million policies had been sold. Most of the money went to purchase government bonds to fund Japan's war in china. Little did people know that their lives would become very cheap, even worthless,. This is where the ober patriotism of the japanese come into play here. If you could have shown the leadership a crystal ball that only showed five years into the future, they'd have given up anything. You'd have made any concessions in any sort of diplomatic deal. But barring that, they could count on the su of a people that takes patriotism to new levels.