Nice AAR, and useful to me; I'm about to start as Japan. My main question is strategic. Shouldn't the main Japanese goal be the southern resource area -- Indochina, the Dutch East Indies, the Phillipines? And then establish a perimeter in the Pacific to keep the USA at bay? Is it possible to fight a holding action in China? That was, more or less, the historical Japanese approach, no? Not that it succeeded, but Japan historically really needed the oil and resources from the Netherland East Indies.