Captured Chinese Soldiers beg for their lives to a South Korean soldier thinking that they are going to be executed, Korea 1951

Captured Chinese Soldiers beg for their lives to a South Korean soldier thinking that they are going to be executed, Korea 1951.

During the late Meiji Era, Japan tried

to put on a facade as a 'civilized

imperial power of sorts. It was noted

that they treated Russian prisoners

exceptionally well in 1905. But by all

accounts, their treatment of Chinese

and Korean prisoners and civilians

during the Sino Japanese War of

1895 were nothing short of barbaric.

In fairness, that's not at al

inconsistent with the other "civilised imperial powers" of the time. In generalthey tended to extend much better treatment towards one another in war than they did to unruly colonial subjects.

During apartheid in South Africa, the Japanese were officially considered white while Chinese were considered black.

Japan is roughly the size of Montana

with virtually no natural resources.

Their strength was their people and

their fanatical devotion to their country.

Japan never had the potential for

world domination. And it's not even an "in hindsight" thing, either. From the outset, any Japanese officer who wasn't a fossl or a yes-man could see that the IJN could not win a prolonged war against the American navy, and their best hope was to hit hard, hit fast,

and broker a favorable peace while

the other powers were still reeling.

The problem is that the Japanese

populace wanted war, and a good

deal of the brass wanted war.

But there was never really much hope

for anything beyond a rapid landgrab

followed by hunkering down and

trying to force a peace.!

Interestingly enough, when you do

apply hindsight, an extended war

in the Pacific plummets from 'Very

Difficult' to 'Impossible'. Japan simply

could not match the manufacturing

of the United States, and not at an

insignificant level. The Japanese

were regularly stunned at how quickly

the Americans could repair and

rebuild their fleet

Furthermore, the longer the war

dragged on, the more Japanese

sailors and pilots got killed. This is

true for any fighting force, but the

reason it is especially meaningful

for Japan is their poor management

(again, in hindsight) of experienced

personnel. The Japanese tended to

be very rigid with crew management,

and kept veteran pilots, for example,

in combat until either the end of

either their lives or the war. The

Americans, in contrast, rotated their

crews out, and generally treated their

soldiers as replaceable parts in a

generic system.

This allowed them to use experienced pilots to train new pilots, and to generally preserve hard-won knowledge. The Japanese had an early advantage due to the experiences of the Sino-Japanese War, but those veterans would have been significantly fewer in number after years of fighting.

There are several other points

(competition for resources and

infighting between the lJA and IJN,

reduced effect of wargames and

simulations due to careerism, a

focus on battleships and cruisers

rather than carriers, and the

already-mentioned desperate need

to make up for a lack of resources)

that illustrate the same point, but

overall the idea that Japan could

pose any prolonged threat outside of

it's immediate area given a sustained

war effort by the Allies is one that

isn't really accurate. They could

most certainly mount an admirable

resistance for a very long time, but

not much more.

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