342 DASA 2019-2 now that the United States was helping them and also that the hazards of typhoid and cholera and dysentery were not greatly reduced, LANGHAM, Let me ask, did Japan herself have the capability of doing this thing if we had not done it? WARREN: No. We had upped the production of DDT. This was the first use on a large scale outside of Guadalcanal by our own forces. Isn't that right, John” Their community medical- public health programs dealt mainly with nutrition and keeping up production, Active tuberculosis involved almost twenty percent of those under military age, requiring lots of sanitaria, The mortality was high. One of the Japanese doctors complained to me, "If we put in this public health policy that you have demonstrated as being so effective, we'll have more people to feed and employ. We have neither the food nor jobs. It would make our situation worse.'' They were somewhat satisfied in a hard way to lose some who were ill becauseillness put a strain on their economy. - twas much more impressed by their wartime brutal military point . “ view than several here who have been there after the war, Some of you were incredulous when I said that the Japanese military had a policy that every woman had to have a child almost every year, or she was put to work in the factory or fieid after other males in the community had tried to get her pregnant. I was told this by several responsible Japanese, so that I was convinced of its truth. After Muckden, the Japanese military planned to train and equip and put in to the field a million aew men each year for ten years, when they would be ready for war. They could afford to lose a million mena year. Thus, baby production was a very important consideration, The war's end saw the emancipation of the women. The general disrespect for life was a cultural thing. After all, it didn't matter too much if they died. They had a chance of improving their lot when they went to whatever was in store for tnem, This was part of their culture and was the basis for the bonzai charge and the kamikazi activity, We wouldn't in our culture have introduced kamikazi procedures, I doubt if we could have made them stick, but this was tied in with the religious ceremonyat the time the young man graduated and was ready for the great honor of his final assignment,