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I mean, that was what W.E.B. du Bois unironically thought leading up to and during WWII. In general, there was a current of Black thought during the early 1900s who saw Japanese imperialists as a lesser evil against Western imperialists and that they should critically support Japanese imperialism against Western imperialism. I think Gerald Horne even wrote a book about this phenomenon.
There is a pretty distinct difference between Du Bois' naive embrace of the Japanese narrative, and a person now with full knowledge of Japanese war crimes and the acknowledgement that Japan was a fascist state, discussing defecting to participate in WW2 on the side of the axis. Both aren't good, but one is manifestly worse.