Relations between Germany and Japan

I believe Hitler never wanted the deal.  He had considered the oriental to also be inferior.  He had wanted an alliance with Britain because of the anglo ancectry.  And we see how well that worked.

The deal was made because one of Hitlers aids or generals (it was a while since I last saw this) went to Tokyo and became obsesed with their culture.  Hitler finally agreed to peace. 

But I am wondering why they did not help eachother more.  When Germany attacked Russia, didn't Japan sit by and do nothing?

Again looking for logic and consistancy with anything Hitler said or did is pointless. He divided Europe up on a flawed racial theory then contradicted it with his every decision he made.

For Japan I believe it was never more than a marriage of convenience, they weren't Nazi. didn't believe in the deal and signed a perfectly standard treaty with Germany, like a million before and since. When one Nato Treaty country these days goes to war, the others aren't obliged to scream gung ho and join without reason, and neither was Japan.

He had no designs on Asia. Originally he wanted Britain to keep it, but later on I guess he'd have been pretty happy Japan having it instead.

Hitler actually had his allies planned out and who would get what.

He decided Italy would regain all territory from the Roman Empire.  Britain (if they would ally with Germany, which they did not) would be allowed to keep its colonies it still sustained.  Japan, since they became an ally, would receive the Pacific Islands (along with britain) and most of Asia.  And of course Germany would keep most of Europe.

It failed right away; Britain did not join him.

Japanese role in WWII was much simmilar to that of Italy: hey didn't fight for World dominance, as Germany seemingly did, but for a share of it only. Japan prosecuted kind of Rooseveltian policy: "Asia for the Asians" (that is for the Japanese) and their ambitioned area of interest would have not given them, at least short term world dominance... still it threatened the interests of the USA and European colonial powers, so they eventually started to fight. The USA didn't enter the war against Hitler, but against Japan.

On the other side, Germany didn't attempt to control all the world, just Europe and particularly Russia, which they wanted to make their India, the super-colony from which they would get all the resources and cheap labor. If Hitler wouldn't had been attacked by Britain-France when he took Poland, he would have surely continued eastward against Russia soon after (something that Stalin seemed not to realize). The Nazis tried all the time to get a peace deal with the western powers, specially with Britain, which they knew it would be hard to conquer as they had no control of the seas.

Also, one have to remember that japan stood aside in Hitler's campaign against Russia. There was never a Japanese-Soviet war till, in the late months of the struggle, Russia declared war on Japan.

I guess that, would have German and Japanese plans worked (what is quite unrealistic but anyhow) the output would have been a German-dominated Europe with a very sad destiny for the peoples of Eastern Europe, a Japanese controlled East Asia, a surviving British Empire (with loses in East Asia), an also surviving but subservient French Empire (with loses in East Asia too and maybe a restoration of the old German colonies of Cameroun and Togo, along with cessions to Italy) and a weakened USA, which would only control America and the Philippines (I assume that no USA-Japan war would have happened).

exactly,a nd this is actually the crucial point here, read more here, especialyl the last chapter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halhin_Gol

it also has mention of Richard Sorge, a very interesting character indeed.