Japan

Japan was the only Axis member that posed a threat in the Far East. It went on a 5 year conquering spree, going first to China and then to the British held colonies of New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies. They were invincible in these two theaters because they were facing and unprepared and uncoordinated enemy. In the north however, they suffered an embarassing defeat. Outnumbered and very much outgunned, the Soviet Union continued to fight off the Japanese and destroyed their pride. This was, more or less, a slap in the face to the Japanese Empire. This ever expanding force was finally stopped at the Battle of Midway, where their advance was finally stopped and all hope of a strategic airbase in the middle of the Pacific was lost. During the war, the Japanese really hoped to gain land and expand their ever-growing empire. Through most of the war though, they fought on 3 fronts. the first in the north, was China, where Chinese armies were fighting fiercely to get rid of the atroucious Japanese occupiers plagueing they're country. The second, in the south and east, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand were using their forces to travel across many islands across the Pacific Oceans to rid the Japanese and establish naval and air bases near Japan. Finally, a third, in the southwest, where British forces and the Chindits, who were a Burmese-British fighting force, fought in the jungles of Burma, to liberate the countries. Yet however many enemies the Japanese faced, they were relentless, sometimes sucidial and would do anything for their country. They fought in this relentless manner because they had "Nationalistic Fever" (they were extreme nationalists).