Barbarossa: Why Japan did not join

Why didn’t the Japanese join Operation Barbarossa and attack the Soviet Union in Summer 1941?
This question comes repeatedly up in one way or another, so time to tackle it.
To answer this question properly we must look at both the German side and Japanese side, since both parts played their role.

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