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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In Imperial Japan, all able-bodied men aged 17 to 40 were liable to serve in the military. Of a population of some 72 million people, they raised a military force of around 6 million during WWII. Compare this to the 16 million in the US military, 13.5 in the German and 34 million in the USSR and it doesn’t seem quite so huge.
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