Life Magazine, August 16, 1943
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I managed to find this at an antique mall. A very strong photo on the cover.
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An example of how businesses that had been making cars shifted over to making weapons (or parts of weapons). The Japanese did not appreciate the fact that U.S. business had the ability to do that.
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Pictures of the aftermath of the 1923 earthquake in Japan.
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An article on what still needed to be done.
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The opening page of the main article.
Each set of two pages then examines a weakness and a strength of Japan.
We learned later that Japan had a major problem with their labor. They drafted most of the regular male laborers, and they were replaced by untrained women and, later in the war, even children. The problem with that was that the quality of the war materials that were produced suffered a sharp decline.
The Japanese Army is examined.
The importance of Emperor worship to the Japanese.
The Japanese were definitely ready to continue fighting no matter what.
It could take five more years to beat Japan.
Main Index
Japan main page
Japanese-American Internment Camps index page
Japan and World War II index page
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