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During the Singoku Jidai, battles between armies numbering almost in the hundreds of thousands were common at the end, yet in Europe most armies numbered around 20-25k soldiers at that point. Why were the Japanese armies so big?

by /u/Morphie12121 in /r/AskHistorians

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