I’ve been watching a number of WW2 films and I realized that Japan is such a tiny country, so it baffles me how they had so many troops. Did they require all the males healthy or not to join the war?
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Several things here:
1. Japan is not a small country. Today, it’s the eleventh-most-populous country on Earth, substantially larger than the UK, France, or Germany today. Even by land area it is not small; it is larger than both Germany and Poland.
2. Before World War II Japan had the second-most-populous colonial empire on Earth after Britain. Even just looking at the “home islands,” its population of ~72 million still made it larger than contemporary Germany, France, or the UK.
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