The Pittsburgh Press (January 12, 1942)
84 Jap divisions reported in action
Vichy, Jan. 12 (UP) –
The newspaper Paris Soir asserted today that Japan has engaged 84 of the 200 Army divisions it can mobilize.
30 divisions are in China, it said, 16 in Manchukuo, 26 in Malaya, 7 in the Philippines and 5 in Borneo.
Those not yet thrown into the war, it added, are being held for wherever necessary –
…against Russia in Siberia, against Alaska or the Aleutian Islands, against Panama or the American mainland.