Why are roads and rails the end-all-be-all? Well, they invented heavy-lift helicopters for a reason, didn't they? And you can't honestly say that all the heavy-lift helos in Japan got wiped out. Even if that were the case they could always ask to borrow a few of the USN's MH-53's - they would gladly oblige.
And if the organizational headquarters had been wiped out then I would think we would have heard about it by now, no matter how much the Japanese like to sweep things under the rug. As far as I can tell, those organizational headquarters are in-or-around Tokyo.
More than anything else, I think that you're right that there is some kind of organizational choke-point going on. Someone or something is keeping people from doing their jobs. If it does turn out that this was all because of someone's over-inflated ego I am gonna be pissed.
And if the organizational headquarters had been wiped out then I would think we would have heard about it by now, no matter how much the Japanese like to sweep things under the rug. As far as I can tell, those organizational headquarters are in-or-around Tokyo.
More than anything else, I think that you're right that there is some kind of organizational choke-point going on. Someone or something is keeping people from doing their jobs. If it does turn out that this was all because of someone's over-inflated ego I am gonna be pissed.