Activity of hot japanese students

In late 1942, enemy activities in the Indian Ocean had virtually come to an end. The German merchant raiders, once disrupting the shipping lines in these waters had with the exception of a few been destroyed by the Royal Navy or had begun the long way home to the homeland in Europe.

By virtue of their powerful battle fleets, the Japanese Navy had strategically planned to fight a war of fleet actions ("Guerre d'escadre"), and as a consequence delegated few resources to raiding merchant vessels ("Guerre de course"). Nonetheless, other than their successful sortie to Ceylon in April 1942, the Japanese Navy had decided to keep the pressure on the shipping lanes, primarily due to the allies' ever-growing logistical strength in the war. Large and valuable tankers maintained a continuous stream of oil and other products from the Middle East to Australia and surrounding islands. The continuous pleas by the Germans possibly[citation needed] had a large influence on this decision, as the Indian Ocean was the primary area of operations in which the two axis powers had the most physical coordination with each other, in regards to re-supply and the exchanging of military (naval) intelligence.