Both countries are almost the same size, at 377,975 km(Japan) and 357,582 km(German) - though they differ considerably in geographical shape. And Japan has more inhabitants - 126 million as compared with 83 million in Germany. They rose to nationalism. Germans wanted revenge where they thought they were punished too harshly, while Japan deemed that it was a great nation and that it should enter the continent through China. Germans fell because they became too spread out and couldn't fight the war on all fronts, while the Japanese lost it because they enraged the US who nuked them.
