Modern Japanese Pan-Asianism

Author: Wang Ping
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Modern Japan is a mystery. It followed the West closely yet harbored resentment, even resorting to war; it did its utmost to belittle the East, even trampling it with its iron hooves, yet it could not sever the umbilical cord of its millennia-old history and cultural traditions. The Asian perspective of modern Japan evolved from the formation of "Classical Asianism" in the late 1870s to the early 1980s to the "Expansionist Greater Asianism" in the 1920s and the "Aggressive Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" in the 1930s, marking a journey from idealism to realism.