Earlier expansion is offered as a possible way to improve Japan's capacity to produce smaller warships. Japan's departure from the treaty system is placed alongside Italy's refusal to join the Second London Naval Treaty. Leaving treaty limits did not remove the financial demands of a larger destroyer programme. Those costs sharpen the criticism of resources committed to the Yamato class. The issue concerns how money and industrial effort were distributed between a few large ships and the numbers needed elsewhere in the fleet.
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Treaty withdrawal and destroyer spending priorities
Japan and Italy's refusal to join the Second London Naval Treaty leads into the cost of choosing large battleships over a more numerous supporting fleet.