• The East Asia Development Board, or Kōain (興亜院), was a cabinet level agency in the Empire of Japan that operated between 1938 and 1942. It was created...
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    Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere as a device for the "development of the Japanese race." When World War II ended, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity...
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    merging it with the East Asia Department and South Pacific Department of the Foreign Ministry and the East Asia Development Board (興亜院, Kōain), which...
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    8 and 9 million Chinese. Afro–Asian Conference East Asia Development Board Greater East Asia Railroad List of East Asian leaders in the Japanese sphere...
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    East Asia is a region of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The modern states of East Asia include China, Japan, Mongolia...
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    industrial development and strategic dominance in East Asia. It saw the Triple Intervention of 1895 as a threat to Japanese success in East Asia and warned...
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    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong, Metro...
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    had 38 warships with a displacement of 95,000 tons already deployed in East Asia, whereas the Imperial Japanese Navy had only 31 warships in total with...
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    assured by creating a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". However, European powers had been dominant in Southeast Asia for more than a century, and...
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    in Japan's East Asia". China Review. 11 (1). Chinese University Press: 2. JSTOR 23462195. "The Meiji Restoration and Modernization | Asia for Educators...
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    economic development and industrial modernization, all accommodated by the growth of the zaibatsu, could Japan hope to become dominant in Asia. The United...
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  • East Asian people (also East Asians or North-East Asians) are the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South...
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    (2 May 2005). "The actual and potential development of Nuclear Weapons Technology in the area of North East Asia (Korean Peninsular and Japan)" (PDF). R3126-A1...
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    Declaration of war against the United States and United Kingdom, Greater East Asia War (Pacific War), Southern Operation (Invasion of Hong Kong, Malayan...
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    Government of Japan. Japan had invaded much of East Asia to create what they called the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", now largely viewed as...
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    proclamation of a "new order in East Asia" (東亜新秩序, Tōa Shin Chitsujo), which later took the form of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". In the...
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  • emerging nationalism in Japan. Holcombe, Charles (2001). The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-8248-2415-6...
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    most advanced installation dedicated to the cellulose industry in all of East Asia. The first place where European-type paper was manufactured in Japan was...
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    Australia) Diego Suarez (Madagascar) Japanese colonial empire Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Tanaka Memorial Jewish settlement in the Japanese...
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    ISBN 0-7656-0785-9. Retrieved 2010-11-28. Lim, Robyn (2003). The geopolitics of East Asia: the search for equilibrium. Psychology Press. p. 86. ISBN 0-415-29717-6...
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    especially the Tiger Cub Economies of Southeast Asia. In 1993, a World Bank report The East Asian Miracle credited neoliberal policies with the economic...
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    referred to as "the land of the rising sun". The Japanese archipelago is east of the Asian mainland, and is thus where the sun "rises". In 607, an official correspondence...
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    Pacific fleet, capture oil fields in the Dutch East Indies, and maintain their sphere of influence in East Asia. It was also to expand the outer reaches of...
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  • when annexations and invasions across Southeast Asia and the Pacific created the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, the Japanese government sought...
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    Japanese ideal to unite East and West. The economic doctrines of the "Yen block" were in 1941 transformed to the "Great Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" Plan...
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    The Japanese Navy was tasked with pursuing and destroying the German East Asia Squadron and protection of the shipping lanes for Allied commerce in the...
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  • Overseas Affairs with the East Asia Department and South Pacific Department of the Foreign Ministry and the East Asia Development Board, formed in 1938 as a...
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    Boshin War (category Civil wars involving the states and peoples of Asia)
    the designation for the fifth year of a sexagenary cycle in traditional East Asian calendars. Although the war lasted for over a year, Boshin refers to the...
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    sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the...
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    than 10 million Chinese civilians were mobilized by the Kōa-in (East Asia Development Board) for forced labour. According to the Japanese military's own...
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