[PAR35]

Sounds like a potentially lucrative investment for the Americans. Japan will likely need a lot of sheet metal in the 1939-1944 period.

I doubt that the Americans extended the same courtesy to it that they did to the Ford plant in Koeln.

[BroJoeK]

"Japan will likely need a lot of sheet metal in the 1939-1944 period."

One shudders to think of how many Americans died from Japanese guns & bullets whose steel came from the US.

On the other hand, we can only be amazed at how mismatched were the industrial capacities of Japan versus US. Here is a great comparison:

Japan's W.W.II Economic Realities