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	Greater East Asia War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the post-war occupation, the American General Headquarters or Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers banned the use of the term due to its association with Japan's wartime government and policies, namely the notion of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
		the Greater East Asia War in China, known as the Second Sino-Japanese War to western historians, and
		the Greater East Asia War in the Pacific, known as the Pacific War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_East_Asia_War (181 words)

	Greater East Asia War in the Pacific - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Greater East Asia War (大東亜戦争) was a term used, at least publicly in December of 1941, by Japan's Imperial General Headquarters (Imperial GHQ) to refer to the conflict that followed (and ultimately reversed) Japan's invasions in the 1930s and early 1940s of other nations in eastern Asia and the Pacific.
		Economic sanctions imposed by the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands against Japan in response to the Japanese invasions of China progressively weakened the Japanese economy.
		It is believed that the Imperial General Headquarters began planning the Greater East Asia War in April or May of 1941.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_East_Asia_War_in_the_Pacific (536 words)

	East Asian Studies Documents: Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
		The new Asia was to be known as the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
		It is necessary to foster the increased power of the empire, to cause East Asia to return to its original form of independence and co-prosperity by shaking off the yoke of Europe and America, and to let its countries and peoples develop their respective abilities in peaceful cooperation and secure livelihood.
		The states, their citizens, and resources, comprised in those areas pertaining to the Pacific, Central Asia, and the Indian Oceans formed into one general union are to be established as an autonomous zone of peaceful living and common prosperity on behalf of the peoples of the nations of East Asia.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/restricted/geacps.htm (1373 words)

	A Postwar View of the Greater East Asia War
		The growing willingness of the Japanese to reassess their nation's role in the "Greater East Asia War" received worldwide attention during the so-called "textbook controversy" of 1962, when new Japanese high school history textbooks were introduced that portrayed Japan's wartime role in a more positive light.
		Hayashi interprets the war as the last phase of a "100-Year East Asia War" that began at the end of the Tokugawa period [in the 1860s].
		Japan, exhausted by the war with China and faced with the threat of forcible resistance by at least one of the powers, Russia, was forced to yield to this demand.- Ed., Japan Echo.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v06/v06p451_Hasegawa.html (6510 words)

	EAST ASIA IN COLD WAR MODE
		East Asia today is in a Cold War mode, primarily because the two major strategic partners of the Cold War in this region, the United States and Japan fear that China’s strategic trajectory is taking shape in a way that threatens their national security interests.
		China is perceived as a revisionist power engaged in build-up of its military capabilities to challenge the existing ‘status-quo’ in East Asia
		China is pro-actively engaged in forging an intense Russia — China strategic partnership.
	www.saag.org /\papers16\paper1593.html (1291 words)

	Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
		For example, the famous Japanese educator Fukuzawa Yukichi wrote "Japan's Mission in Asia" in 1882 to support the idea of Japanese imperialism and the "manifest destiny" of Japan to be the leader of Asia.
		Japan required East Asian raw materials such as oil from the Dutch East Indies and rubber from Indochina in order to keep its manufacturing industry and military in China supplied.
		The leaders spoke of "Asia for Asians," the need to liberate Asian countries from Western imperialist powers, and economic co-prosperity for member nations of the autarkic bloc.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /papers/coprospr.htm (766 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - Corporate war machine gathers speed
		By the same token, the incestuous relationship between war beneficiaries and warmakers goes some way to explain the increasing tensions between the military and civilian militarists in and around the Bush administration, especially in the context of the administration's plans to bomb Iran.
		In other words, the standard of success for corporate beneficiaries of war, which operate from behind the facade of neo-conservative forces in and around the Bush administration, is based more on business profitability than on the conventional military success on the battlefield.
		This is a clear indication of the fact that, for example, while from a military point of view the war on Iraq has been a fiasco, from the standpoint of the powerful beneficiaries of the Pentagon budget it has been a boon and a huge success.
	feeds.southeastasianews.net /?rid=48ad0ad37b4f81e5&... (1904 words)

	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
		In a Carnegie Policy Brief initially released in November 2005, Simmering Fire in Asia: Averting Sino-Japanese Strategic Conflict, China experts Minxin Pei and Michael Swaine, analyze the causes of Sino-Japanese tension and recommend policy steps for the U.S. to play a more positive and active role.
		Paul Salem, director-designate of Carnegie's Middle East Center, addressed this and other questions concerning the effects of the current crisis in Lebanon during an August 3 discussion held by Carnegie’s Middle East Program.
		Carnegie’s Amr Hamzawy argues that Secretary Rice's eagerness to herald a new Middle East indicates a crisis of Bush's regional policies and suggests that Washington has acquired the habit of declaring its regional vision at inopportune moments that tend to prove shocking to Arab peoples and governments alike.
	www.carnegieendowment.org (447 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Asian news hub providing the latest news and analysis from Asia
		The challenge for Canberra is that it is simultaneously strengthening its political and economic relations with China.
		Under its rubric, wars can be waged in which the killing of civilians is merely collateral damage, not a war crime.
		In East Asia, the undercurrent relates to the rearmament of Japan as a counterweight to a rising China.
	www.atimes.com (1046 words)

	Belmont Club: June 2004
		China's economy is growing at more than nine percent annually, India's at eight percent, and the Southeast Asian "tigers" have recovered from the 1997 financial crisis and resumed their march forward.
		China's economy is expected to be double the size of Germany's by 2010 and to overtake Japan's, currently the world's second largest, by 2020.
		As Michael Ledeen noted in his The War Against the Terror Masters, the fires of Islamic fundamentalism burn lowest in places like Iran and Afghanistan, where the enemy's cruelties are well known; we have adherents, in Kristol's words "due, more often than not, to some outrageous action by his own side".
	belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004_06_01_belmontclub_archive.html (15767 words)

	China's WMD in the Greater Middle East's Door
		China's demands for oil from the greater Middle East are high and likely to grow due to its growing economic infrastructure.
		China's 'oil diplomacy' in the Middle East is an effort to ensure continued access to oil from a U.S.-dominated region that provides China with the bulk of its oil imports.
		China is attempting to nurture strategic relationships in the region, because it lacks the military means to stop the United States from imposing a sea-based blockage of oil tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf in some future contingency.
	meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2005/issue3/jv9no3a6.html (6473 words)

	IPCS - China & East Asia
		China said Friday that proposals raised by a few countries for the so-called "Taiwan's representation in the United Nations" is doomed to failure.
		China will boost imports, loosen controls on outflows of capital and make the yuan more flexible to help curb a record trade surplus and slow the fastest economic growth in a decade, the central bank said.
		China increasingly attractive to others: U.S. scholarChina has been increasingly attractive to other countries in recent years and the idea of China's peaceful rise is impressive, a famous U.S. scholar told Xinhua in an interview.
	www.ipcs.org /China_east_asia_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=JAPAN (3441 words)

	Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
		China's pollution is having an effect as far away as California.
		The increasingly fierce competition between Japan and China over energy and political influence is spilling over into Africa, with political leaders and oil companies from both countries making forays into the continent.
		China has dropped its objection to Japan raising the issue of its citizens kidnapped by North Korea at the next round of six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China.html (1130 words)

	The Armies of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As their economies beat the odds and rise in recent years, East Asian countries have increased their defense spending at a time the Pacific region is at its most peaceful and prosperous period.
		Mainland China and the Koreas, which suffered Japanese occupation during World War II and are strongly opposed to any increase in that country's defense budgets, closely watch Japan's military policies.
		Taiwan estimates that China's defense budget is three times what it officially reports, meaning that the 2000 official budget of 14.5 billion dollars is closer to 43.5 billion dollars.
	www.taipei.org /teco/cicc/currents/55/Selections/Html/selection1.htm (711 words)

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		The historical inevitability of the war of Greater East Asia lies, indeed, in the reaction of the East Asiatic people against the unjust encroachment of these various Western European influences.
		At that time Japan in view of the developments of a critical international situation in East Asia was face-to-face with a serious problem of determining her important national policy.
		That the U.S. was prepared for war with Japan at that time is also clear from the speech which Assistant Secretary of State Berle made at Des Moines after the outbreak of the war on February 24 of this year.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/policy/1942/421126a.html (2091 words)

	Dulles Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere Indo China Korea
		To the US this was just another ideology that was a symptomatic feature of totalitarianism that had already caused one world war, and the lessons learned from that war was that totalitarian states are never happy unless they are expanding their borders.
		This was a major discontinuity in the history of American foreign relations in that now it had political and military commitments throughout the globe that had previously not been its responsibility.
		Equally unsettling was the establishment of the Communist Republic of China and its desires to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
	www.geocities.com /s011023/coldwar5.htm (1788 words)

	The Greater East Asia War And The A-Bomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Greater East Asia War and the A-Bomb 3.1 The Greater East Asia war Along with expansion of its role as a military city, Hiroshima became a modern city.
		After the Manchurian Incident, the Shanghai Incident, and the outbreak of the full-scale war between Japan and China, the Japanese army and navy launched an attack on the northen Malay Peninsula and attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 8, 1941 (Japan time).
		However, after Japan, which had been victorious in the early stages of the war, lost the battle of Guadalcanal in 1943, the military situation grew steadily worse, and it appeared that the mainland of Japan would be turned into a battlefield.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/26/hte77.shtml (1568 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
		Any of the warring families would be happy to see him toppled in a military coup, and one of their own installed in his place.
		With his forces barely in shape for any war, much less with China, the emperor was putting the fate of his whole nation on the line.
		In the last, great war, we have seized from the Middle Kingdom the island of Hainan and its port of Haikou, as well as the the land of the Koreans.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=9722 (4523 words)

	COFEPOW - South East Asia Under Japanese Occupation - Singapore at War
		By 1940, however, it was clear that the British fleet and armed forces were fully committed in Europe and the Middle East and could not be spared to deal with a potential threat in Asia.
		In the first half of 1941, most Singaporeans were unaffected by the war on the other side of the world, as they had been in World War I. The main pressure on the Straits Settlements was the need to produce more rubber and tin for the Allied war effort.
		The harsh treatment by the Japanese in the early days of the occupation undermined any later efforts to enlist the support of Singaporeans for the Japanese vision of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which was to comprise Japan, China, Manchuria, and Southeast Asia.
	www.cofepow.org.uk /pages/asia_singapore2.html (2226 words)

	War With China? US Shifting Massive War Materiel To Asia
		And it is certain to arouse resentment and criticism from those European nations that rely on U.S. military might to protect them but have been blasting President Bush for "putting America's interests first" by proposing a missile-defense shield to protect the United States from a sneak nuclear attack by a rogue nation.
		China continues to threaten to use military force to retake Taiwan, if it deems that necessary.
		Transfer of large stores of American war materiel to Asia and possible redeployment of some European-based U.S. troops to the Far East should be considered in that context.
	www.rense.com /general13/warwithchina.htm (800 words)

	INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT
		China is moving aggressively to sate its growing appetite for energy, potentially setting up a confrontation with the United States for the dwindling resources of the Middle East and Africa.
		Israelis lose faith in government as war with Hezbollah ends: Hava Mendelovich returned to her damaged apartment in this scarred border town this week to clean up the wreckage left by a Hezbollah rocket, but it wasn't only her home that was a shambles.
		War in Lebanon may improve chances for sanctions on Iran : Senior officials in the United States and Israel believe the sanctions will include restrictions on senior Iranian figures, and that an effort will be made to avoid, at least initially, measures that harm the populace directly.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info (7107 words)

	Greater East Asia War - Japan Imperial Headquarters' Term for World War II
		Greater East Asia War - Japan Imperial Headquarters' Term for World War II The Greater East Asia War was a term used by Japan's Imperial General Headquarters to refer to the conflict that resulted from Japan's invasion of other nations in eastern Asia and the Pacific in the 1930s and early 1940s.
		The leaders of Japan were faced with a choice: End the war in China, so as to end the sanctions, or obtain additional resources by some other means.
		It is believed that the Imperial General Headquarters (Imperial GHQ) began planning the Greater East Asia War in April or May of 1941, by November their plans were essentially complete, modified only slightly over the next month.
	www.japan-101.com /history/greater_east_asia_war.htm (514 words)

	Warfare, Asia, Crusades, Europe, Hundred Years War, Middle East, Viking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		An outlet for this need of war was sought by Pope Gregory VII who after being called for aid by the Byzantine emperor, sought to expand Christianity to new lands.
		When the crusaders arrived to Asia Minor, they promptly divided their army in two and were defeated by the Turks who were more experienced and had a vast knowledge of the land.
		Additionally, the Europeans were much greater in number as some cities would peak more than a hundred thousand inhabitants whilst the Asians had not as many.
	medieval-castles.org /index.php?cat=20 (4050 words)

	Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
		Massively larger than any of her neighbors, China may have developed its cultural forms in relative isolation, but since the advent of Buddhism has both absorbed outside influences and disseminated its own culture.
		It is not going to far to suggest that the very different responses of the various East Asian to the Western intrusion of the past two centuries reflect the variety of previous historical developments.
		The Monk of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China; or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe and Markos who as Yahbh-Allaha III Became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html (4483 words)

	JTW News - Japan-China caught in spotlight at East Asia talks
		Japan and China, along with South Korea and 10 Southeast Asian nations, are due to meet India, Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday and plot the direction of a grouping that some say could sow the seeds of a pan-Asian free-trade bloc.
		But Asia's two biggest economies are arguing bitterly about their wartime past and despite hopes in the rest of the region that the row would not surface in the run-up to the summit, it stumbled onto centre stage after a chance encounter on Monday.
		ASEAN agreed on Monday to put Japan, China and South Korea alongside it in the driver's seat of the summit, be held annually alongside the ASEAN summit.
	www.turkishweekly.net /news.php?id=23479 (1454 words)

	China & East Asia Symposium
		It is known that in the East Asia, India, South Korea, and lately China, recognized the importance of the latest developments and already initiated their own methane hydrates research and exploration programs.
		The East Asia digital data base was originally created as a set of thematic references at a unified scale and projection to be used with satellite imagery.
		The East Asia digital data base was a compilation from hundreds of sources, with translations from several languages, and using only experienced geologists to do geological analyses.
	www.china-resources.net /cearconv/abstract.html (15744 words)

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