Kwantung Army 4th Tank Regiment tankers equipped with type 95 ha-go light tanks , Manchuria 1939. 

Kwantung Army Ha-Go Tanks

a Well Equipped japanese army soldier before departing to the front in China, 1939.

Well Equipped

Japanese forces land on a beach in the Dutch East Indies - March, 1942.  The Dutch government surrendered to the Japanese without putting up any resistance on the ground.  The IJN had previously defeated a combined fleet of U.S., British, Dutch, and Australian ships in the Battle of the Java Sea.