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Originally Posted by Palantir
Would the Japanese Army as a whole be described as a "Light Army." No heavy armor or aircraft.
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I don't think they had a "light" army. However they had almost exclusively light armor. It was a force designed to fight in terrain and weather of Asia and the South Pacific.
If you think about their aircraft from the long view, they really weren't much different from Germany. Neither had heavy bombers. Germany flew the 109/He 111 and Japan the Zero/Betty throughout the war. The Japanese "Frank" was one of the best fighters of the war, when properly manufactured and maintained.