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Re: Recognition
What has not been mentioned, but was perhaps more important than anything else, was how secretive a society Japan was before WW2. Any information about the military was kept from the Japanese public, and hence even more from the rare foreign traveller. There were no tourists as the modern world knows them. Even then, screens were built to hide the manufacture of the larger warships from sight.
It is perhaps not surprising that Western intelligence was so poor about Japanese technology, as surprising that anything at all was known. Some items were indeed reported to intelligence channels, but they were buried in their own layers of secrecy.
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