7. What were both Germany and Japan doing that was seen as a threat?

Hitler saw the main enemy as the US ... Eventually, America began an economic embargo against Japan, which Japan viewed as a mortal threat to their empire and led directly to WWII, though that was after the Tripartite Alliance was signed. The Japanese Empire also had numerous border conflicts with the Soviet Union.

Hitler saw the main enemy as the US ... Eventually, America began an economic embargo against Japan, which Japan viewed as a mortal threat to their empire and led directly to WWII, though that was after the Tripartite Alliance was signed. The Japanese Empire also had numerous border conflicts with the Soviet Union.

They viewed Japan as a very real threat to American interests in the Pacific, but not one of the same magnitude as that presented by Germany in the Atlantic ... If Germany's Navy had been relatively as large as its land and air forces, the story of World War II might well have been very different.