A friend told me that the Japanese saw nazi propaganda and thought that they should ally Jewish people because they “controlled everything”
When I looked it up I didn’t find anything confirming or denying it (aside from
google ai but fuck google ai)
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u/postal-history addresses this (and more!) in their excellent answer here and in further responses in that thread.