[jmacusa]

Japanese planes, rifles, machine guns, small arms and especially their tanks and ships were just pain awful. Their submarines however were pretty good, huge things to be sure and the Long Lance torpedo was an excellent weapon. But over all the Japanese made poor quality weapons and their tactics were even worse. At sea, particularly in the Battle Of Samar in October of 1944 when a much larger Japanese force almost over came a smaller American one for some reason, at almost the moment of winning the fight they turned tail and steamed away. On land they threw themselves at American Marines in senseless ''banzai'' charges.My late-father-in law saw combat as a Marine on Saipan and attested to this. And the kamikaze attacks were even dumber.

[blueunicorn6]

I think their Samurai history was helpful in some ways, but very destructive in others.

They suffered horrible losses in Burma and New Guinea and Guadalcanal.

They were more concerned with not showing fear than they were with winning.