Axis Showdown: Germany would have annihilated Japan.

My apologies about debating in the comments and thus interfering with your potential arguments. My source is the book 'Military Errors of World War II'. Good book, I encourage all of you to read it. Agreed, Japan did eventually obtain radar during WWII, which I previously made it sound did not occur. However, in all of the dates that the Wikipedia articles list, not one date is before the year 1942. This is two entire years into the war, and the specifications on these radar systems are vastly primitive. The more sophisticated radar systems were not created until 1944 and 1945. The Japanese also built upon technology offered by the Germans and captured from the United States. If they did not have these two sources, they would not have notably progressed in radar technology. One other factor which is very importance is the use of intelligence forces. Both the Soviets and Germans had intelligence agents present in Japan (Germany to ensure that its ally never changed its allegiance). However, the Japanese would find it absolutely impossible to infiltrate the Germans with spies of Japanese blood. Asiatic features are highly distinct and definitely not aligned with the Aryan features Hitler was so proud of. Thus, the Germans could know many strategical moves that the Japanese make while the Japanese would still be unaware of German movements. Saboteurs and all of that are a part of the intelligence campaign. It is true that the Kriegsmarine possessed no aircraft carriers, but they were working on two when they decided that the effort was fruitless because the Allies had already expressed dominance in the Atlantic. If they were fighting Japan, they wouldn't have initially given up on those two. The German war machine had a far more productive industry. It easily produced airplanes, tanks, artillery, ships etc. With its extensive empire, including the resource rich country of Ukraine, its industrial machine could have extended its production for a more powerful range engine and various other amphibious features needed to destroy the Japanese. Japan, on the other hand, could not so easily adapt its industry to produce stronger and more powerful tanks, longer range howitzers, better rifles, mines and machine guns etc. The Japanese Air Force largely lacked the use of submarines against a merchant marine, and it most definitely did not adapt to the role of protecting its merchant fleet and supply lines. In like manner, the Japanese had little way of creating an invasion of the Germans. If their aircraft carriers did come about to German territories, they would be blown out of the water as had been the HMS Ark Royal. Once the Japanese invasion fleet had been repelled - rather easily - the Germans would have a clear way to create bases in areas like Burma. The Japanese could not have mounted any invasion by land, as they had no power or colonies. They had no idea of how to fight in the desert. They had no skills to fight among European hedges and flat, rolling terrain. They only knew tropical islands and strategic hopping techniques. With so much overextension of their newly gained territories, and an entire ocean to cover, the Germans would easily be able to adapt, just as the US had to do. One last thing I may mention. The United States fought a war on two fronts. Not even half of its army was dedicated to the fighting of the Japanese until 1944/45. Yet, the Japanese were defeated. However, Germany could only be repelled by immense forces of marauding allies. The Eastern Front caused Germany hundreds of thousands of casualties, but they managed to inflict even more upon the Russians. Then, the Germans had to use a portion of their armies to fight off join efforts in Italy and France. And Africa. Japan would have caved much much sooner under this pressure. This just demonstrates the might the Germans possess over that of the Japanese.