Under normal circumstances, the armies of different branches of the armed forces will unite for the interests of the country, and even if there are contradictions, they will be temporarily shelved and united with the outside world. But in Japan, the contradictions between the army and navy have become so serious that they cannot be reconciled, even beyond national boundaries.
Historically, there have been serious internal strife and mutual attacks between the Japanese Navy and Army. In the case of the need to be unanimous with the outside world, they also ruffle and insult each other, leading to a series of strange phenomena and unnecessary personnel**.
For example, the incredible incident of the army building an aircraft carrier and the navy building a tank. Even within the Japanese Navy, everyone had a pamphlet on how to insult the Japanese Army.
During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese Army faced a strong ** firepower, and the Navy refused to provide cover, resulting in tens of thousands of ** of the Army. After the war, the army generals questioned the navy, but the navy said why they could save them.
During the Pacific War, the Japanese Navy had run out of fighters, but the Army had a large number of fighters. However, instead of supporting the Navy, the Army used warplanes for military parades.
In addition, Japan's military logistics institutions were not accepted by the navy and army, but each established its own organization, collected various materials on its own, ordered equipment from manufacturers, and even established its own arsenal.
After the establishment of the arsenal, the competition between the two sides gradually escalated, and even in aircraft manufacturing, they wanted to surpass each other. As soon as one side builds an aircraft factory, the other immediately builds a bigger one, and keeps it secret to see who has the better design in the end.
This competition has led to a lot of waste of aluminum. In the standard of military parts, the phenomenon of not being common to each other is also common, even if it is a part of the same purpose, the Japanese army and navy will be completely different, such as a screw, the army is left-handed, and the navy is right-handed.
This competition has undoubtedly resulted in a great waste of state finances and resources. Not only in the field of aircraft, but even in the shipbuilding of the Navy, the Army will intervene. The Japanese Army not only built its own submarine factory, but also participated in the sale and purchase of commercial shipping and civilian ships, and even surpassed the Navy in the total tonnage of civilian ships.
Mutual suspicion and competition between the Japanese navy and army has always been a big problem. Not only do they keep secrets, they don't share the departure and arrival times of their ships, they don't even notify each other when they find important information about enemy submarines.
The ambitious Japanese Army is also preparing to build aircraft carriers on its own, leaving aside the Japanese Navy and the US military. This situation of digging holes with each other makes their daily life very stressful and chaotic.
1.Immediately after seizing the British advanced radar system, the Japanese Army kept it a secret and conducted in-depth research on its own. 2.Due to their refusal to cooperate, the navy and army each spent huge sums of money to purchase the same German engine for production.
When the two sides were able to communicate with each other at the end of the war, they found that they had dug holes with each other and produced parts that were incompatible. 3.In the Battle of Java, Admiral Imamura led his troops to reinforce Java Island on a Japanese naval transport, but the frenzied navy sank the transport ship Imamura was on.
Luckily, Imamura was in good health and was rescued after a few hours of swimming. However, Imamura mistakenly believed that the enemy attack caused the ship to sink, and comforted the Japanese navy.
It wasn't until later, when the Navy revealed itself to each other, that the truth was discovered. 4.Yamamoto Isoroku was a famous admiral of the Japanese Navy, and in order to balance this famous admiral, Hideki Tojo specially appointed his sworn enemy Chiaki Matsuda as the Minister of the Navy.
5.The navy had a great demand for oil, but the amount of oil transported was fixed, and the Japanese army occupied most of the oil fields and extraction equipment, not to the navy**.
In order to meet its own needs, the Navy threatened the Army to withhold all cruise ships destined for Japan if it could not get enough oil. 6.*aspect, if the **caliber used by the Navy is the same as the **caliber used by the Army, then the Army will definitely not use it.
Vice versa. 7.There is even a joke that the Japanese Navy fights the Army with 70% of its strength and the United States with 30% of its strength. These are just the tip of the iceberg of the daily contradictions between the Japanese Navy and Army, and there is even the possibility of a civil war, but fortunately it did not start a fight, otherwise it would have become a joke in world history.
The two countries are on the same page, trying to unify Japan, but they are not willing to give in to each other. The navy prioritized going south, while the army advocated going north, but this was a dispute over resources, because Japan was a small country and there was a shortage of resources.
The two armies also have their own positions, the navy is mostly the children of nobles, the army is mainly the middle and lower classes, the interests dictate, the two sides do not give in to each other, the descendants of the navy officers and men are not allowed to marry and have children with the army, once it is found that the light ones are expelled from the army, the heavy ones can be shot on the spot. And in this period of contradictions, if a civil war breaks out, the consequences are unimaginable.