SuperClifford, I don’t see your thread anywhere.
Build so you have five to six transports total ASAP. You use one to two of them to empty the islands. The rest move units from Japan. My usual is to use four transports to move eight units to French Indochina, to put pressure on India, on the next turn, the transports move to Japan to unload from Japan to Burytia. If I have a Japan bid of at least 1, I build an industrial complex in French Indochina, and two transports (but you DO need 31 IPC for this).
You should probably only use ONE transport to attack Australia, Hawaii, and New Zealand. With battleship support shots and a couple of fighters, one transport is plenty, considering you pull infantry from the local islands so you have a “supply depot” of infantry.
The rest of the transports MUST concentrate on Asia. If you don’t have three transports in the region of Japan, the UK can counterattack with Indian infantry and fighters / bomber from the UK; the USSR can attack with infantry, tanks, and fighters. If you don’t constantly run infantry and tanks into Asia, you will be overpowered. Also, EVERY infantry that you can move into Asia in the early game is another infantry that will be used to hit Moscow.
Japanese fighters have a special role. You should try to be in position to reinforce a German held territory. Imagine that Germany hits Ukraine, and has eight infantry and five tanks. Now say USSR can counter with ten infantry, two artillery, four tanks, and two fighters. Germany will get seriously damaged. BUT, if you fly five Jap fighters in, the Ukraine attack is completely different.
Late game, you need even more transports. You want more transports to move infantry from Japan to French Indochina, then from French Indochina to Persia in one turn. You will also want to help out with Africa, which was probably reclaimed by that point by the Allies (but left empty). PLUS, when it’s really late in the game, you move from the sea zone east of Japan to beat the crap out of W. Canada. That forces the US to spend a turn to build up in W. Europe instead of diverting