Pacific War began . It did not go beyond the state of semimobilization ed in the 1930s until October 1942 . Only then did the government seem to realize that a long war and all-out conversion of the economy were inevitable . Priorities were switched from production of equipment for the ground forces to planes , ships , and other equipment for an air-sea war . The Japanese began a labor draft (for men only ) and began to scrape up workers wherever they could find them...











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