IJAAF 50th Sentai Ki-43 Oscar Fighter Pilots in Burma, December 1942.

 Ki-43 Oscar Fighter Pilots

Soldiers of the IJA 2nd Division nicknamed the "Courageous Division" hours before the Battle for Henderson Field, October 1942.
The division total loss of the disastrous Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands was over 7,000 men. Afterwards, the 2nd division was assigned to garrison duties in occupied Malaya and Singapore.
 

The "Courageous" Division in Guadalcanal 

Infantry of the IJA South Seas Detachment doing a terrain reconnaissance, New Guinea, 1942.