Japan-Poland Alliance WWII

"...In 1936 Japan signed an Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany and Italy. In the next three years Hitler's policy of aggrandizement moved inexorably towards war, and the final signal was the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov treaty on August 23rd, 1939. Japan took this as a breach of the Anti-Comintern Pact, and, feeling no longer able to trust its allies, decided to set up an observation post on both Germany and USSR in the form of a consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania..." - from http://www.tiu.ac.jp/~bduell/ASJ/3-95_lecture_summary.html

Is it possible for Japan, as a result of this, to convert the cooperation with Poland into an alliance with Poland, and as a consequence, Great Britain and France. At the time, both countries never looked at Japan as much of a threat. The Soviet Union only ended up on the Allies because Germany invaded it; otherwise it would have stayed neutral. The United States didn't really care about events outside their borders. At that time, the Japanese were sponsoring Jews to migrate to its empire, defeating one of Hitler's purposes in the first place.
 
But Japan couldn't care less what happens to Poland or, for that matter, Europe. All they cared about was that European colonial powers had much more pressing business at home to care what Japan does in China. As long as this happy (for the Japanese) situation lasts, they can get away with anything they do in China.

Allying the country on the other side of the world is, even by admittedly low standards of the Japanese, ill conceived policy. They would only in their opinion lose face anyway the things in Poland turn. And losing face is not something the Japanese tolerated. Even if it meant being firebombed, overrun and nukebombed back to the Sengoku period.

Therefore, in absence of appreciable, or for that matter any at all, gain they are not going to suddenly come and propose Alliance to Poland.
 
No.

Political alliances are made for the sake of gaining some sort of advantage. Poland was in no position to offer anything to Japan economically or militarily.
 
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