The Road To The Alliance

The alliance between Japan and Germany was important in Japanese 1930s'diplomacy. In my paper, I will analyze how Japanese-German Alliance took shape from theearly 1930s to September 1940 when German-Japanese-Italy Tripartite Pact was signedand explore the causes and influence of it. The alliance wet through a complicated process.When Japan mobilized the Far Eastern Crisis and quit from the League of Nation,Germany and Japan supported each other in the diplomacy; They signed theAnti-Comintern Pact in 1936 that was a political pact; Then Nazi Germany gave up the"Equal policy" between China and Japan to show the goodwill-Japan tendency in theTrautmann's Mediation in 1937 that accelerated their allying: After the complexnegotiations, they signed the Tripartite Pact which was military. In the whole procedure,the military in Japan and Ribbentrop in Germany brought into important play. Thealliance set the world fascist power against the world anti-fascist power, and had animportant effect on the world strategic structure. Comparing with Japanese-Anglo Alliancethat was the other east-west alliance, Japanese-German Alliance was different in the goal,scope and the tenure. But the two alliances all had close relations with China.