DBWI:Japan joined the Axis Powers?

What do you think Japan would be like today if it had allied with Nazi Germany instead of remaining neutral during World War Two?
 
Why would they ally themselves with Germany and get involved in a European war?
Sure, you could say the European powers were distracted, and an axis Japan could probably get in quite some early victories; but the US isn't going to stand for it.
No matter how isolationist the US is, there is simply no way the US is going to let Japan run rampant all over the pacific. No to mention the fact that US-Japanese relations were finally improving after the Japanese withdrawal from China.

Besides, wouldn't this put Japan at war with the USSR?
 
Neutral is being nice, they almost used force to get East Indies and Indochina put under their protection. i really don't see why they'd want to join the Nazi's whats in it for them? :confused:
 
Neutral is being nice, they almost used force to get East Indies and Indochina put under their protection. i really don't see why they'd want to join the Nazi's whats in it for them? :confused:

I suppose they'd want the USSR's pacific coast (Vladivostok is a very important port) and some European colonies in the south, but I find after Japan pulled out of China I don't think they'd be interested in expansion beyond Korea and Hainan and Taiwan.
 
I think we would have an even more powerful communist party in China instead of the coalition government we have today if the Empire of Japan didn't help America and its allies during the Chinese War.
 
But WI Japan lost? Would some of Japan's most anti-communist advocates be tried for war crimes?
I can name one :
As we know Colonel Tsuji was a war criminal as he is. In China he was frequently caught beheading Chinese prisoners. But he was fiercely anti-communist.

If Japan lost then the US will most likely blame Hirohito, maybe put him to trial. Without him, Japan will be prone to communism.:(
 
Considering the war crimes of the regime of Chiang Kai-shek and his regime, it is hard to imagine the idea of the nationalist government of China, joining any alliance with Japan. While it sounds ASB-ish, any ATL with Germany allying with Japan, eliminates any alliance with the Kuomingtang (KMT) government and the Blue Shirts.

As Americans would the FDR administration have been as openly condemned during war time for his plans for the internment if it had been the case of Japanese-Americans rather than Chinese-Americans? With Japanese-Americans the number of interned would have been 6 times smaller than the number of Chinese-Americans. Would the accusations of "racism" and "Yellow Peril" be as loud with a much smaller number of American citizens interned?
 
The Empire and Commonwealth Forces might not have been able to drive Rommel out of Libya by late '42, for one thing. The US might have entered the war earlier and possibly more enthusiastically, but as in the previous war, I dont think the US would actually have allowed Britain to be defeated.
 
The Empire and Commonwealth Forces might not have been able to drive Rommel out of Libya by late '42, for one thing. The US might have entered the war earlier and possibly more enthusiastically, but as in the previous war, I dont think the US would actually have allowed Britain to be defeated.

They could have.
 
With Japan as a member of the Axis, would this immediately create a Second Russo-Japanese War? After the massive losses incurred by Imperial Russia in 1905, I seriously doubt that the Soviet Union would be able to handle a second naval onslaught by the Japanese. At least with China, the Soviet Union had the advantage of an enemy that was divided politically by an internal civil war until 1939. Barring ASB intervention, this would leave a divided and balkanized former Soviet Empire.....
 
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