Eli5: Why did Japan side with Germany in WW2?
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Really simply, enemy of my enemy.
Japan’s expansionist aims brought it into direct conflict with the US over hegemony of the Pacific; Britain over their colonies in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Burma and India and the Dominions of Australia and NZ; France over Indochina; and the Dutch over the East Indies.
By 1940, all four were also enemies of Germany.
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