[Mike Darancette]

However, your claim that the Army wanted to invade Russia is at least debatable. They had fought a full-scale battle against the Red Army in 1939 at Nomonhan and got their head handed to them.

In 1939 the Germans weren't attacking from the west. In 1941 just a demonstration in the East would have held up the Soviet Army long enough that Stalingrad and Moscow might have been lost.

[Sherman Logan]

True enough. My comment was on the Jap Army desire to actually invade and conquer Eastern Russia. I suspect they got that knocked out of them in 1939.

As others have pointed out, the Japs believe bushido and courage would defeat tanks and artillery.

Turned out not to be true. The Japanese have been accused of many things in WWII, most of them true. But they’ve never been accused of not being brave.