the Anti-Comintern Pact

In 1936, took part in the negotiations for the Anti Comintern Pact between the German and the Japanese governments.

Despite tentative plans for a joint German-Japanese approach against the USSR which were slowly maturing and regardless of the 1936 Anti Comintern Pact, the years 1938 and 1939 were already decisive for Japan's decision to finally expand south, instead of north.