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| | TIMEasia Magazine: Asian Journey - Empire Of the Sun |
 | | Before the decade was out, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere would be no more than a bad dream, and the Japanese people, decimated in bloodshed, shattered in faith, would see in the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the wreck of all their illusions. |
 | | But I feel some compensating irony, too, to think that, when both those empires were dead and gone, such old sorrows of Asia would eventually lead to the prosperity and even the happiness of nations. |
 | | It was once the factory of the Ford Motor Co., and in it, on the evening of Feb. 15, 1942, the commander of the British forces in Singapore, Lieut. |
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