Japan,
The Japanese Army in WW II was most part an infantry-based army. Mid 1930's
the Japanese began to expand their tank program.They built about 6.000 armored vehicles of all
types. There was a wasteful rivalry (hate) in the army between the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA)
and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), so that the war industry produced separate models planes,
tanks and ships for each branch. With limited industrial resources and capacity, the Japanese had
to win the war quickly, or not at all. The Japanese were the best light infantrymen in the war, with
an incredible devotion to duty, high morale, absolute refusal to surrender and for all deadly
enemies. They believed in the all-out charge attack with bayonets and taking positions by pure
force.The infantry had not enough automatic weapons (and anti-tank weapons), only armed with
rifles and grenades, so they began to field suicide. The Japanese tanks fought mostly in dense,
heavily wooded terrain. Japanese opponents in the Pacific and Asian had little or no armor, so
Japanese tanks being lightly armored and undergunned in the war. The Japanese artillery had an
odd mix of guns calibers and limited available, few recent designs guns, some from WW I and old
guns from the early 1900's.No self-propelled artillery, most horse-drawn or towed by truck.
Japanese some use the massive bombardment, so as the Allies did, due to doctrine and limited
ammunition.
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