Nazi Germany vs. Imperial Japan. Who would win?

Well if you're looking at a wanked out version of both, like In Presence of Mine Enemies, pretty much by the time both powers get that way they've gone nuclear and MAD takes over.

You could alternatively keep the Sino-German alliance in tact and see Germany supporting Chiang when Japan invades in 1937, but that's probably not what the OP is going for. Not much influence Germany can bring to bear into that hemisphere anyways aside from advisors and weapons.
 
There really isn't a way for them to make contact enough to get a real war going outside of POD going back centuries that wouldn't allow Nazi Germany, at least, to exist in a recognizable form. Anything else is ASB, at most Germany will be supporting China as in a proxy war against Japan and Japan has absolutely no way to get to Germany.

Any throwdown between Hitler and Hirohito is going to consist a lot of glaring and little else. The only way Germany gets to Japan is giving the Chinese support and the only way Japan could possibly get at Germany is throwing in their lot with the Soviets or somehow, some way remaining palatable enough to the Brits and keeping up that alliance.
 
There is a certain mismatch in the power between Germany under NSDAP rulership and Imperial Japan, as the former is a continental power, with only a modest navy, while Japan is a seaborne power, with only a token continental strength, given its limmited industrial power.

Theoretically a conflict with m,ilitary forces between the two would mean Japan would face defeat onland, given German superior strength in both numbers and fightingpower (both armored and infantery and tactical airforces), while possibly face the same sort of defeat at sea, as the german naval strategy would most likely be a commerce war with primarily submarines, against we all know how poor the IJN did in the OTL.
 
A single Japanese pilot at Midway spotting the US ships before the American pilot spotted the Japanese ships could have tipped the whole Pacific War the other way.

It was that close.

No it wasn't.

Even if the Japanese had annihilated the entire Pacific Fleet, occupied Midway, and thus avoided Guadalcanal all it would have meant was a delay of maybe a year or longer. The United States was never going to negotiate terms with Japan. The sheer difference in manpower, industry, and resources meant Japan never had any chance at all so long as the US was determined to see things through to the end no matter what.
 
Always, thought that for ultimate world domination they would eventually have to have a go at each other! Surely, both in their obnoxious extreme arrogance and insanity would have both regarded each other as inferior races!
 
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