Could German citizens visit Japan during the Nazi era? And if so what would the locals think of them?
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The anti-Comintern pact was signed in 1936, so I guess it depends on how you define "brothers in arms". Also, the trip could have been made predominantly by rail, without going through Russia - mostly the British-dominated Middle East, then India, and north to Manchukuo. There's a multi-year window where a citizen of Nazi Germany (1933 through 1939) could go through British lands. But you said German citizen, so it's a bit vague.
Of course, these journeys were far more common in Agatha Christie novels than in real life and it would have been a rich German, regardless of time frame or politics.
It's worth pointing out that there was active propaganda in Japan well before the war, encouraging the people to feel fraternal towards the Germans. An example is the 1937 Japanese/German propaganda film, The Daughter of the Samurai.
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A television programme I saw years ago mentioned that Japan having been on the Allied side in the First World War, a number of German servicemen became prisoners of War of the Japanese when the latter took the opportunity to seize German possessions in China and the Pacific.
These Germans were sufficiently well treated that a number of them chose to stay on in Japan afterwards, some opening beer halls. I do not know if they remained there permanently.
This was cited as evidence that there had, perhaps due to indoctrination that becoming a prisoner was shameful, been a cultural change by World War II when the Japanese treated their prisoners of war vastly less well.
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