Efforts have been made to address industrial and material imbalances by relying on ideas such as possessing a fighting spirit. The Japanese government faced a scenario where they were informed their industrial capabilities, despite access to Chinese raw materials, were only one twentieth of the United States' capacity - a figure considered a conservative estimate.
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...