The Japanese had also got themselves thoroughly clobbered a couple of years before by the Red Army in “border incidents” that were actually major battles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol
They were understandably not anxious to stick their hand back into that particular shredder.
That said, a Japanese attack on Siberia might have caused the Axis to win the war.
The Japanese feared Russian Artillery, more than anything else. This is what had eaten them up in the border fights.
They couldn’t even come close to matching it, and they knew it.
With the Siberian resources unreachable, the Imperial High Command turned it’s sights southward, to the Dutch East Indies
The Japanese feared Russian Artillery, more than anything else. This is what had eaten them up in the border fights.
They couldn’t even come close to matching it, and they knew it.
With the Siberian resources unreachable, the Imperial High Command turned it’s sights southward, to the Dutch East Indies