
General Tojo Part 4: The Atom Bombs
Real Dictators
The Japanese Army's Honesty Code
After 1943, the Japanese army couldn't really feed its own soldiers, let alone its presence of war. For every Japanese soldier killed by a bullet or by a mortar or by a bomb, ten of them died of disease and starvation - at least ten to one. Their armies starve to death on Bougainville as many as 40,000 soldiers starve to death. On the British side, you have hospitals set up immediately because they know the problem of tropical disease. The Japanese suffer just as badly from these tropical diseases, but the Japanese don't waste time and money on worrying about this so why bother? I mean, it's not really an issue.
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