It's fair, i think, to call japan the most fervently large anti communist country in the world during this time period. That's really saying something in an age where notsy germany exists. The big sticking point that it's hard to see any overcoming. It's a pretty high minded cause. Lot of people's sons on all sides in a lot of wars have died for things like that.
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...