Another decisive limitation in the German-Japanese alliance were the fundamental differences between the two nation 's policies towards Jews . With Nazi Germany 's well-known attitude being extreme Antisemitism , Japan refrained from adopting any similar posture . On 31 December 1940 , Japanese foreign minister Yōsuke Matsuoka , a strong proponent of the Tripartite Pact , told a group of Jewish businessmen : On a similar note , both countries would continue to conceal any war crimes committed by the other side for the remainder of the war . The Holocaust was systematically concealed by the leadership in Tokyo , just as Japanese war crimes , e.g. the situation in China , were kept secret from the German public . An example would be the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking in 1937 , which were denounced by German industrialist John Rabe . Subsequently , the German leadership ordered Rabe back to Berlin , confiscating all his reports and prohibiting any further discussion of the topic
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Germany–Japan relations