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Originally Posted by dirtyroboto
WWI (World war 1) UK and JP are friends. The Uk Navy trains and sells ships to JP. The Brit Consulate is the closest (and still is) consulate to the Imperial Palace.
WWII (you guessed it) Japan moved into India (Britains slave whore) so Britain and Japan had some nose punching to do.
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Two comments. First, while Japan threatened British India, they never entered its territory. (They did enter Burma, but that had been separated from British India in 1937.) The real impact on British dominions was the Japanese invasion of the British territories of Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, and Burma, and the Australian territories in New Guinea. There were also attacks against Australia itself. Also the Japanese managed to sink two British capital ships, the battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse. Much of this happened within the first few weeks of the war.
Second is that you make it sound like Japan's split with Britain was precipitated by its movements into British imperial territories. Actually that split had happened some twenty years earlier, and the U.S. was mainly responsible. By World War I the U.S. was already highly distrustful of Japanese power in the Pacific, and after the war Britain was concerned that it could be drawn into a naval arms race or even a war with the U.S. To preserve good relations with the U.S., Britain eventually decided to abandon its Japanese alliance, which was officially dissolved in 1923 as a result of the 1921 Washington Naval Conference.
Wikipedia's article on the
Anglo-Japanese Alliance has a more detailed history of the relationship, with pointers to further sources.