I am now playing a game in which Japan is DOW in J2.
Again only Russia or the UK can help China, because the initial Japanese units are used to kill off the Chinese. We’re now trying to spread out, but I don’t see that helping the Chinese. And Russia is now threatening to take Manchuria (with 18 infantry), but that also doesn’t help much.
Landing 5 or 6 planes (UK/Russian) doesn’t help much either. Japan is happy to destroy those to in R4!
Look in R4 Japan has so much more fleet and air units that the ANZAC/US fleet is behind 5-6 units. India cannot step forward. You are right that Japan has much to do in J3, and maybe they prevent Japan from taking all the treasure islands in R4, but after that Japan is master of both sea and land!
I’m really interested to know what it is we’re doing wrong, what can ANZAC do? What can the US do? If Japan builds 1 carrier in R3 and R4, with some destroyers and subs, the allies never have enough to counter that.