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I'm not misunderstanding you. The bulk of the IJA was in China, for most of the war. They pulled some units from Japan and China to garrison the islands, some of the divisions from Mauchuria/Manchukuo went to Dutch East Indies, Singapore, Indochina and the Phillipines, but we never faced most of their Army, there are only so many soldiers you can put on an island before the additional manpower becomes a detriment. Our main opponent was the IJN, not the IJA. To be fair, even if Japan had been able to throw most of their Army at us, we still would have won and the island hopping campaign would have worked out pretty much the same. The Phillipines and Okinawa may have been harder to take. The USSR/Japan non-aggression pact didn't make our life much tougher than it would have been anyway.