Show NAVY in spite of heavy losses the japanese navy remains an effective fighting unit some of the maor major units are believed to be equipped with the most modern german and japanese radar warning and other technical equipment their best battleships are equipped with 16 inch guns or better cruisers with 8 inch guns and destroyers with 5 inch Import important ani adjuncts to the major combatant units are the submarines small fishing and men japan Is believed to be increase ing its submarine class the leadership of the japanese navy is able and much of its equipment is equal to our own AIR the japanese air forces suffered a major defeat in the philippines campaign and as long as allied pressure continues they will remain inferior in size and effectiveness to the allied air forces the quality of f the japanese pilots is now low but they are capable of determined torpedo and dive bomber attacks on allied carnei and amphibious forces operating near the main japanese islands tIAN AfAN POWER in addition to the japanese in the homeland the japanese military machine Is supported by the labor of some million subject peoples under japanese in addition they have more than tit fit young men 17 and 18 years of age not yet subject to the draft there are workers employed in war industries and they have little more than begun to utilize their manpower for military industrial expansion ECONOMIC japans great weakness Is her shipping but she has bas accumulated stockpiles stock piles of many of the strategic materials to prosecute the war though short on steel with germanys germanas Germ anys aid in devising substitutes she will make what steel she has RO go a long way japanese Jn pinese food supply is tight but annual production of rice and other crops with strict rationing are believed to be adequate POWER TO RESIST geography gives japans defensive positions great strength the people have an intense nationalism and fanatic desire to serve their god emperor they will resist to the very end it will require a great and united effort to defeat this closely knit fanatically stubborn power and under the best of circumstances our 1 losses osse 9 will be heavy |