Japan's treaty ratio meets army rivalry

The Imperial Japanese Navy character dismisses British and American budget complaints because its own officers face both spending pressure and political violence. The character describes an army that competes for funding, threatens naval officers, and overlooks the maritime dependence of an island nation. The smaller treaty allocation is presented as insufficient for the navy's tasks, compounding those domestic pressures. The exchange connects dissatisfaction with the Washington ratio to interservice rivalry rather than treating it as a purely international grievance. The result is an arms-control settlement entangled with civil-military conflict inside a participant state.