Did Germany control Japan during WWII?

You are absolutely correct that Germany did not control Japan during the war. Germany had very little influence on the course of action the Japanese took and could not get them to jointly attack the Soviet Union.

Germany and Japan were allies and were both members of the Anti-Comintern Pact. Germany had been aiding China, Japan's enemy, providing them with military equipment and training and stopped that when they started to align more closely with Japan. Japan had been at war in Asia since the early 1930s and was engaging on its own imperial plans in Asia regardless of what Germany was doing or wanted. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the European colonial powers was more to further their own goals than to aid Germany in theirs.

A glance over this article will detail Japan's plans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co...

No, Germany did not control Japan at all at any time. So be 100% sure your correct, there were and maybe still are people that believed the Japanese were less intelligent than Westerners, so it was impossible for them to have created so may great planes & submarines.

How would this have happened, i can only imagine that your friends means that Germany directed Japan's foreign policy.

This isn't true; the two nations had mutual interests as they had similar enemies and their regions which they considered to be their sphere of influence did not overlap.

NO.

Japan's designs were solely involving a Pan-Asian Empire.

No its goal was to control all of Europe not asain

No.They were allies and after the war documents were found that there was a long term plan for world domination,With America as desert.

Theres this this called Wikipedia, use it. And No, The did NOT control any part of the Japanese Empire ever.