Germany acted semi-schizophrenic and left Battle of Britain halfway to go attack Soviets. Bad Idea, like a beaten (but not knocked out) Boxer, UK Rebounded to cause major pain for Germany exposing them to Dual Front.Japanese Battles happened for the most part on water among Carriers and with Marine Amphibious forces where as for Germany, major part was land battles involving Armor. Geography to blame only partially.Germany tacked on the Racial genocide to the War due to Ideology, Japanese didn’t so directly but they treated really badly the other nationalities, particularly Chinese.There were Shades of Trade war for the Japanese Motivations, not so for Germans.Japan lasted longer and would have even more so, had it not been for the Nukes. Germany, caught in pincer movement, could not keep up the war of attrition.End of hostilities resulted in Divided Germany, not so in case of Japan.Apart from Anzac participation, major combatants in Pacific were Americans and Japanese, whereas, in Europe there were quite a handful. Hope this helped!
