Talk:General Discussion/@comment-186.205.183.216-20140701211546/@comment-16545476-20140702095216

Actually, prior before the Kanto Earthquake, the Japanese government somehow raised a public funding on Mutsu just for propagandas sake. It was said that Mutsu was spared by the Washington Navel Treaty because Japan used the excuse that it's people (especially children in grade schools, since there are some donations that came from the kids) will be highly dissapointed if Mutsu was scrapped. It did let the Brits and Americans find an excuse to build a couple more battleships and forced Japan to scrap a couple more older ships in return though.

If Yamato was the pride of the IJN, Nagato and Mutsu was the pride of it's people.