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Nah, "if D-Day failed" implies everything up to that point being unchanged save for bad planning, in that scenario the Soviets would have had the war materials the US had been sending them and which they had turned the invasion around using by that point.
You'd need to have failed landings along the Mediterranean as well before we get to the point where the Nazi commanders who didn't have their heads up their own asses last estimated they could turn the momentum back against the Soviets, and at that point the question isn't if Germany could win, it's how far Stalin would be willing to go to take the initiative back again, because the earth is a globe, and if needed, the US and Canada could have deployed their troops into the Soviet Union to mount a reinforcement operation while the UK doubled down on supplying asymmetric resistance against the Nazis, and now we're dealing with what Japan's role as an acting defense against such a maneuver would be or if they'd even be willing to mount a defensive operation against such a troop movement purely for Germany's benefit.
Then again we've gone so far down the rabbit hole now that we've run into the fact that the US would probably have deployed the bomb since Germany was their intended target in the first place anyways, so does Japan just fold seeing that the US can make nukes now after Berlin becomes a glass floor?
WWII is just so all over the damn place that any point falling the other direction spirals half a million what ifs, none of which end up being answered really well in alt-hist media purely because people just have a really hard time picturing all the angles of attack in a war that truly encompasses the whole world in scope.