Planned invasion of Australia during World War II

Planned invasion of Australia during World War II
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Japanese Strategy "As to Japanese invasions of Australasia and India, the Japanese Prime Minister, Tojo, in the last interview he gave before his execution on 23rd December 1948, insisted that Japan had no plans for the physical invasion of Australia or New Zealand. In a statement he said in reply to a specific question regarding any contemplated invasion of New Zealand and Australia: "We never had enough troops to do so. We had already far out-stretched our lines of communication. We did not have the armed strength or the supply facilities to mount such a terrific extension of our already over-strained and too thinly spread forces. We expected to occupy all New Guinea, to maintain Rabaul as a holding base, and to raid Northern Australia by air. But actual physical invasion - no, at no time."
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