The men involved in planning the strategies for the Japanese military forces met together for secret meetings in 1942. They had already been able to take over many of the islands of the Pacific, so their next strategy was to invade Australia. They decided that they would take over the northern parts of Australia to make sure that the allied US and English forces wouldn't use it as a place to launch their military actions from. They decided not to do this as they were worried that it would turn into a drawn out conflict. They actually wanted to take over the whole of Australia, but to do so would have taken up too many resources. Getting supplies to and from these men across the continent would have been simply too difficult.

The plan they came up with was to make a circle around Australia, which was called Operation FS. They would take over the islands around the main continent and cut them off from the rest of the world. Therefore they would be forced to concede to the Japanese forces. None of this ever happened since the US military forces came in and crushed the Japanese troops in the Pacific islands.