Would Japanese troops go directly to Greece?

Would Japanese troops go directly to Greece?

A North African deployment is more plausible initially, since newly arrived Japanese troops would need time to train and integrate.

Japanese ground forces are not expected before 1941. Sending them straight into Greece would assume a level of readiness and cooperation they had yet to develop. Training them in North Africa could instead make it possible to transfer established British units to Greece while preserving the size of the force in Egypt and Libya. The replacements would still lack the integration and experience of the British troops they relieved.