iirc, it had something to do with duty, pride and honour.
Well, Germany had Hitler usurp the government under the guise of fighting communism and communists were Jews; China had the communist Mao under whom a hundred million starved or were liquidated, Russia had Lenin/Stalin...and we know how bolshevism turned out for Russia. I've not yet spent the time to try to understand what led the Japanese into the quagmire. Duty, pride and honour were subverted in Germany and Japan, while the majority of Russia didn't even know what was happening.
There's a devil in there somewhere...
To understand the axis powers an d their mutual attraction we need to see the commonality between Japanese, German, and Italian fascism.
1) They all seek historic justice for historic wrongs allegedly perpetrated by a former generation with blame on those living in the present.
2) There is an emotional appeal to the masses based on an assumed cultural, religious or racial superiority
3) Unity is sought by defining an external enemy.
4) The media is censored or co-opted to manipulate the masses using propaganda.
5) The elite wealthy conservative or right wing classes are co-opted and destroyed, their industry and business is put under fascist control for the sole benefit of the state, and the party.
All of these things existed as a matter of commonality among fascist movements in Japan, Germany and Italy, so they united.
It is the same with Obama’s fascist doctrine, all the elements above are present in the Obama administration but the free People of America caused him to fail. Yet we could see how attracted Obama was as his liberal Utopian fascism drew him closer to Islamofascism and Islamic terrorism. Obama would not even define them as enemy, he was so fascistically ensconced in his own ideology, which required a slowly evolving totalitarian control, easily seen in the Affordable Health Care act, which was not about health care at all, it was about the subjugation of a free people.
Obama was a tin pot dictator who failed, not much different in his ideology than Tojo, Hitler or Mussolini, who did not fail and attained national totalitarian power.
Good riddance to Obama, the utopian liberal fascist, and if you happen to be curious about Obama as a fascist, its set out here :
Barrack Obama, The Qintessential Fascist by Kyle Anne Shiver:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
We are so very fortunate to be ridding ourselves of Obama.Italy, Germany and Japan had not been as lucky as we in America now are.
It has been a long battle Fred, but I do believe that Donald Trump will put the run to liberal fascists at home and Islamofascists abroad.