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[IMDunn-oycd]

I have a great-uncle who was captured in the Philippines, survived the Bataan Death March and spent the remainder of the war as a Japanese POW until his camp was taken by Russian troops in China. He said that the Japanese were as hungry as they were.
PFC Albert J Graf

[muyangcheng]

"Procuring food from the local population" was a very generous way of describing pillaging and displacement lmfao.

[RoundInTheChamber]

Logistical problems aside, a fully supplied army being expected to loot to feed itself is some medieval crap.

[sheldonwheaton]

If I remember correctly, there were 14 people behind the lines supporting every one rifleman. In the US Army. For the Japanese it was three.

[ElJorro]

When the Japanese discovered a Naval Barge dedicated to making Ice Cream, they knew they were going to lose.

[wjstix]

This was a problem for all armies. My father was in the infantry in Europe (30th "Old Hickory" Div.) and he said they often had trouble getting rations to the front. He said veterans who said they hated Spam were the guys stationed in the US - in the front lines, a can of Spam was like gold.

[blondyelowflash]

This is one characteristic that made the Roman Empire so dominant in its day.
The logistics of supplying the army was a monumental task for that time.

[KPW]

Japanese logistics in general was a sad joke and one of the indirect reasons why so many civilians died in Japanese occupied territories.

[rapipanmanoch]

My grandmother got lots of money trading with Japanese when they came to build death railroad in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. There’re a few convenient shops at the time and pretty much all of them were approached by Imperial army to be their suppliers. In fact, she had such a sway over the Japanese that she can ordered them to return my grandfather who got swept away to their work camp alongside the rest of the Chinese in the city first before they signed the deal. They really relied heavily on Thai local suppliers

[humbertogarcia]

To put in the most generalized way,

Japanese troops to Okinawans: "Go fight, but before you do. Give us all your food.

American troops to Okinawans: "Would you like some chocolate?".

[stephenwood]

Many isolated garrisons were encouraged to grow cassava - which grows well even in areas with bad soil - in order to make their positions as self-sufficient as possible. Cassava would become a staple in Singapore during the Japanese occupation.

[TheHobohobbit]

"procuring food from the local population" is a very nice way of wording what happened in reality

[SabreWolferos]

Meanwhile

The US military - “ you want some ice cream with your rations?😊”

[MirlitronOne]

An elderly friend of mine (RIP) was interned in a Japanese PoW camp and said that the rank-and-file soldiers (not the officers) often suffered from malnutrition and deficiency diseases, often as much as the prisoners.

[satorukuroshiro]

Not to mention the whole reason they pulled the US into the war was due to us deciding to stop selling them oil, which meant they had less fuel for their ships and planes, the two things that moved said rations.

[danielgibbons]

Over and over you see massively over restricted/inflexible planning and short shortsightedness ruining everything for them.

[evilemperorzurg]

Japan has always had issues feeding itself. Only 10% of the country is arable land so contrary to popular belief samurai were mostly fighting each other over rice patties. One of the biggest motivations for the expansion of the Japanese empire was acquiring natural resources. Oil and metals were the big ones but farmland was just as important.

[BastiatC]

It is wild that so much of Sun Tsu is devoted to not relying on the land to feed your army and leaders still try it.

[SuLokify]

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Thank you for doing this work despite draconian demonization policy