BITTER STRUGGLE
CAUSE OF JAPS’ DEFEAT Recd. 9.30 p.m. Tokio, Sept. 6. The influential newspaper “Asahi” said that a bitter struggle between the Army and Navy, also disputes among militarists in Cabinet regarding control of the country, were instrumental in causing Japan’s defeat. This is the first time for a decade that any Japanese newspaper has dared report what was long known to be a fact. “Asahi” added that remnants of a fuedal society based on the policy "Let the people obey but do not let them know” existed until to-day and prevented the lull use of the nation’s strength. The Army and Navy fought over materials and labour and heavily patronised black markets in the race to equip their own services. As a result the munitions production power was halved. Even the Diet often did not know whether to take orders from Cabinet or from the militarists who .stood behind it.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 212, 7 September 1945, Page 5
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