Comments by "黑龍 - Hắc Long" (@-haclong2366) on "Japan, the Bureaucratic War Machine | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1931 Part 2 of 3" video.

  1. 04:00 Not entirely true, even by the early 1940's much of Japan wasn't that much different from the Edo period, in fact for most rural peasants they've only seen slightly better equipment.
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  2. 01:35 Completely wrong, the reforms were done by Samurai educated in Europe who wanted to apply the things they've learned, the Emperor remained a figurehead, the prime-minister was the de facto shogun.
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  3. 16:05 Their original plan was to conquer until Afghanistan, which meant that Japan would share a border with Iran (Persia), and they hoped, Germany.
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