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They were a major world power at the time of WWII.One of 3 central Axis powers, they were tied to Germany and Italy in the Tripartite (Three Party) Pact.
The "Rome-Berlin Axis" was used to describe the military coalition of Italy and Germany in 1939 under the Pact of Steel signed by Mussolini and Hitler. This is the source of the term Axis Powers to describe their alliance. With the signing of the Tripartite Pact by Japan (1940), the "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis" describes the three major powers that fought the Allied Powers in World War 2.
It expanded its embargo against Japan.
Usually the Axis powers are referred to as members of the Tripartite Pact, hereby implied that there are three main powers: Germany, Italy and The Empire of Japan. Other, later members include Bulgaria, Romania and Finland, with several other countries, such as Thailand, playing smaller roles in the Axis alignment.
Germany, Japan & Italy signed a "Tripartite Pact." Once they began their conquests upon other countries, the remaining UN-Conquered countries formed their own alliances to fight back.