I do not know which conflict Japan was directing its aggression against in this video of national pride and expansion. Certainly in the 1890s Imperial Japan fought the Sino-Japanese Wars, in the 1900s Japan fought Imperial Russia for Russian colonies in Northeastern China, in the 1910 Japan fought a war to colonize Korea (at the time Korea was one country), in the 1930s Japan began the colonization of China using the excuse of returning the dethroned Qing Emperor back onto his throne against the Republic of China, and in 1941 Japan initiated its attack on the United States for the Pacific & East Asia territory. Many Japanese citizens died to appease of desires of the feudal Japanese Imperial Government. Seeing this film just remind me of how easy it is demand blind loyalty, disguise naked aggression in nationalism, and send average Japanese subject (subjects of the Japanese Emperor) to their deaths. It is so easy for the leaders to manipulate the masses into blind aggression. And the tears of a mother and wife count little.
