Irony, idiosyncrasy, irreplaceablity, irreverence, irrelevance was infused inside. It made logistical sense to place an armaments factory next to a steel facility that was next to a coal mine and power station, close enough to a population center that was linked by rail, yet was behind a mountain range.
The boring drone of logistics is enough to put anyone to sleep but is the circulation system at the heart of any economy. The US had cut Japan's oil, rubber and steel supply and when the children of the rising sun went to war they needed 20 million tons of shipping a month up from their 10 million.They had access to the wealth of their conquests but had to move it back to Japan, whilst moving the influence out with a reduced 6.5 million ton of shipping that was being sunk by allied u boats. Destroyers are warships that are kitted up to thread supplies through hostile waters, but cover 7 000 km over a sea frontier of 17 000 km against a United States that was belching 3 merchant supply ships a day, meant that starving samurai wound up throwing stones at their foe.
The real heroism here was faith in the "swords to plough shears" formula that saw golf clubs and refrigerators and sewing machines and fridges being churned out. As you need an army to bring the fight to the enemy, you need a sales force and distribution chain to bring goods to a peaceful nation that unfortunately all to easily falls in love with foreign suitors. At the end I made a selection from the gift shop: piles of mass produced trinkets made in China paid for with a wave of a chip by a tourist who arrived on a ticketless train then guided by the website and GPS.
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