How was Japan able to send so many troops despite being such a tiny country?

Question

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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Answer 1

Japan isn’t small, the United States is big. We are not the standard for how large a country “should” be.