Category:Axis powers and American victory

history of the imperium of the rising sun
japan was a large island consisting of eight regions that were united by an empire. Portugal and Japan started their first affiliation in 1543, making the Portuguese the first Europeans to reach Japan by landing in the southern archipelago of Japan. They had a significant impact on Japan, even in this initial limited interaction, introducing firearms to Japanese warfare. The Netherlands was the first to establish trade relations with Japan, Japanese and Dutch relations are dating back to 1609. The American Perry Expedition in 1853–54 more completely ended Japan's seclusion; this contributed to the fall of the shogunate and the return of power to the Emperor during the Boshin War in 1868. The new national leadership of the following Meiji period transformed the isolated feudal island country into an empire that closely followed Western models and became a great power. Although democracy developed and modern civilian culture prospered during the Taishō period (1912–26), Japan's powerful military had great autonomy and overruled Japan's civilian leaders in the 1920s and 1930s. The military invaded Manchuria in 1931, and from 1937 the conflict escalated into a prolonged war with China. in 1941 the united states allied itself with japan and germany to defeat great britain on the condition that china and much of asia went into japanese possession.

japan in world war II 1941-1945
the japanese imperium helped invade europe and south america and was an extreme help to the allied forces.the japanese empire invaded the majority of asia with the united states. germany had an extremely effective war economy and imperial government.