As the Allies began to turn the tide during the Second World War, the Axis powers desperately sought for any means to salvage their war efforts and stem their losses. Technology, it seemed, would prove pivotal in determining the outcome of the war. Working together to share military secrets and intelligence, Imperial Japan would benefit greatly from their collaboration with Hitler's Germany. In particular, the Japanese took a great interest in German planes, rockets, submarines....and tanks. With their own armour proving insufficient to counter America's island hopping Sherman Tanks of the Pacific, Japanese officials were extremely impressed by the German Tiger Tank which had proved so efficient on the Eastern Front against the Red Army. Turning to their German comrades for help, Japan organized the purchase and mobilization of its own Tiger Tank - the first, they hoped, of many that would save the war for the Empire of the Rising Sun.

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