Why did Japan support Hitler?

Question

Didn't Hitler regard them as inferior?

However, I have heard some of the Japanese were made Honorary Aryans

Answer 1

Why did Bush support Hitler? Prescott Bush and George H. W. Bush helped and supported Hitler. They financed Hitler through Wall Street, through a company called Brown Brothers-Harriman, which also directed the military complex behind Hitler and the Nazi revolution. (Prescott is George W. Bush's grand daddy)

Answer 2

There were many reasons for the formation of the Axis, as the literate people here have suggested.

Japan was expanding its empire as early as 1931, before Hitler was even elected, and yes, Hitler WAS elected. Mussolini had been running Italy for a decade before that. Hitler was the last one in the pool.

Japan wanted the resources that were being exploited by the British, French, and the Dutch in their Pacific colonies. Why wouldn't they want Hitler to invade those countries? It would make the colonies extremely vulnerable (as it certainly did).

The Japanese also had to keep an eye on the Soviet Union, which was casting greedy eyes on China, and who were still smarting from their defeat in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Win or lose, a German invasion of Russia would take the pressure off Asia for many years to come.

In fact, if you think about it, Japan was the leading cause for Hitler's downfall. The Japanese never told the Germans about their plans to attack Pearl Harbor; Hitler was taken completely by surprise.

Roosevelt declared war on Japan on December 8, but the US was not at war with Germany until December 11, when Hitler declared war against us, as Alberto pointed out. Up until that point, the Germans were very close to taking out Britain and the Soviet Union. Once the Americans entered the war, however, Germany was doomed.

If things had been different and the Axis had been victorious, it's pretty likely that Germany and Japan would be at war with each other within a decade or two.

Some of you people need to turn off the MTV and crack open a history book...

Answer 3

You are quite right. The Nazis did not think of the Japanese as an inferior race. Indeed, the Nazis went so far as to try and prove a connection between the German people and the Japanese - via a twisted pseudoscience route, no doubt.

Japan was one of the three nations, along with Nazi Germany and Italy, which formed the 'axis powers'. Their aim was world domination through war.

The day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Nazis declared war on the USA.

No only had the Japanese taken hold of the tail of a sleeping tiger but now the Nazis had awoken the American Eagle.

By January/February 1942, American GIs were landing at Liverpool to join the war effort against Nazi Germany in Europe. The Allied landings, D-Day, were in June 1944.

The rest is history.

The United States of America lead the Allies [the United Nations Forces] to a great and glorious victory of the Nazis in Europe. The USA also won a great victory of Japan in the Pacific.

VICTORY - VICTORY - VICTORY

Some 28,000 thousand American Service personnel gave their lives in the European part of WW2. If you visit London you can see their memorial in the American Chapel at St.Paul's Cathedral. The memorial and chapel were paid for by the people of UK from their donations to a fund set up for that purpose. There is also a Book of Remembrance on the alter of the American Chapel. It contains all the names of the 28,000 Americans who died so that we might be FREE.

THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOREVER.

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Answer 4

The Japanese government wasn't really supporting Hitler... they saw that by creating an alliance with Germany, they could assist each other in their imperialistic goals (ie, trying to take over other countries and gain power).
They weren't really about supporting *Aryan* supremacy, but Japanese culture at the time did lend itself to the idea of racial supremacy in general - for example, many Japanese considered themselves far superior to Koreans. But mostly these racist claims were just an excuse for their warmongering and power-seeking.

Answer 5

Well, they didn't really.

Hitler always wanted them to attack the Soviet Union, to draw some of the heat from his own army but the Japanese never did because there was nothing in it for them. They were more interested in moving on towards India. It was just convenient to be friendly because they had simlar enemies but Japan & Germany gave each other little practical help.

Also, Germany declared war on the USA when Japan did & not the other way around.

Answer 6

The then Prime Minister Hirohito was incapable of vetoing any decision reached by the governing body. Although, Hirohito possessed considerable public influence, even if he held no effective power. In 1940 and 1941, he endeavoured to use that influence to avoid war with the Western powers through his own Imperial Court, just as unsuccessfully and he had tried to avoid war with China in 1937. By November 2, 1941, Hirohito was faced with his failure to end mounting hostilities, and, on December 1, he was required by the Tojo government to give ritual sanction to commence the declaration of war.

Answer 7

They didn't support him as much as they tolerated him. While he was trying to build an empire in Europe, Japan saw an opportunity to create an empire in Asia. They were allies in the fact that they both would stay out of each other's way and allow the other to have their empire.

Answer 8

For the same reason they detained Bobby Fischer in 2004, and supported wars of aggression against Iraq and Yugoslavia. I suppose some Japanese think they look more powerfull by supporting this.

Answer 9

My understanding is that Japan raided Pearl Harbour because of supply disruption in the seas around Japan. I think the only affiliation between Japan and Germany was that they were both anti-USA.

Answer 10

They didn't "support" Hitler per-say, we were just a common enemy for them. Essentially it wasn't so much one war as it was two separate wars fought at the same time.

Answer 11

b/c at the time Japan's economy was as broke as Germany's was. And Japan still had the imperialist views that it bestowed for hundreds of years.

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