What are facts about Japan during World War?

Answer 1

Here are 5 facts or more about Japan during World War 2.

• Japan is a very small country and it had an extremely large population of 100 million people. Their armed forces were 5 million strong, though not necessarily all experienced.
• Japan was accustomed to being victorious. They thought it was a certainty they would win the war they started.
• Emperor Hirohito was like a god to the Japanese even though most of them had never seen or heard him.
• The Samurai Warrior concept is taught to young boys and they have the ideal ingrained in them by the time they are adults.
• The Samurai Warrior ideal forced them to believe that it is dishonorable to surrender in a war so they committed suicide in honor of their Emperor.
• The Japnaese thought of themselves as the superior race and the whites were stupid, arrogant people. They thought the whites should see them as the superior beings and demanded their respect even while they were being brutal and unkind to the whites.
• The American Japanese people who were not born in Japan knew very little about Japan or their ideas about the war or the purpose for it.