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"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II." Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture ReviewIn The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy A. Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions—one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines.Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia's future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationalist elites in the colonial capitals of Rangoon and Manila. Exploring Japanese visions for international order in the face of an ever-changing geopolitical situation, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere explores wartime Japan's desire to shape and control its imperial future while its colonies attempted to do the same. At Japan's zenith as an imperial power, the Sphere represented a plan for regional domination; by the end of the war, it had been recast as the epitome of cooperative internationalism. In the end, the Sphere could not survive wartime defeat, and Yellen's lucidly written account reveals much about the desires of Japan as an imperial and colonial power, as well as the ways in which the subdued colonies in Burma and the Philippines jockeyed for agency and a say in the future of the region.

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World War II

History of Asia

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 avril 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501735554
Langue	English
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THEGREATEREASTASIACOPROSPERITY SPHERE

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

TheStudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstituteofColumbiaUniversitywereinaugurated in 1962 to bring to a wider public the results of significant new research on modern and contemporary East Asia.

THEGREATEREASTASIACOPROSPERITY SPHERE WhenTotalEmpireMetTotalWar

JeremyA.Yellen

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2019 by Cornell University Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,orpartsthereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. Firstpublished2019byCornellUniversityPressPrinted in the United States of America Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Yellen, Jeremy A., 1977– author. Title: The Greater East Asia CoProsperity Sphere : when total empire met total war / Jeremy A. Yellen. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018047982 (print) | LCCN 2018052346 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501735554 (ebook pdf) | ISBN 9781501735561 (ebook epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501735547 | ISBN 9781501735547 (hardcover ; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere—History. | Japan— Relations—East Asia. | East Asia—Relations—Japan. | Japan—Relations— Philippines. | Philippines—Relations—Japan. | Japan—Relations—Burma. | Burma—Relations—Japan. | Japan—History—20th century. Classification: LCC DS889.5 (ebook) | LCC DS889.5 .Y45 2019 (print) | DDC 940.53/5—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047982

Cover image: Ministry of Finance propaganda poster encouraging war bond purchases. De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images.

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AcknowledgmentsANoteonNames,Transliterations,andTranslations

Introduction:WhenTotalEmpireMetTotalWar

The Imagined Sphere 1. Into the Tiger’s Den2. Order Begets War3. Imagining CoProsperity

Par t II The Contested Sphere 4. The Patriotic Collaborators5. A New Deal for Greater East Asia?6. Independence in TransitionConclusion: The CoProsperity Sphere in History

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Acknowledgments

Thisbookhasbeenalaboroflove,andattimesextremefrustration.Asatrans national study of Japan’s wartime empire, it relied on help from a transnational group of scholars, archivists, librarians, and friends and family to whom my deepest thanks are owed. First and foremost, my deepest thanks to my family. My parents and grandparents always encouraged my inquisitive nature, even if it took me in directions they could not imagine. Most importantly, this work would never have come to fruition without the constant support of my partner, Sasha, who never stopped making fun of my insane mission to write a book on Japan’s wartime empire. Tsumugi, our son, injected muchneeded levity into the process and provided a wonderful distraction from the writing process. Without the two of you, writing this book would not have been such a rewarding experience. Ioweagreatintellectualdebttothementorsandfriendswhohelpedmegrowas a historian, and whose concerns shaped this project over the years. I owe my biggest intellectual debt to Andrew Gordon, who guided this project with a light hand but never failed to pose incisive questions and to provide extensive com ments that helped me develop my ideas. Further, I would not be a historian of Japan were it not for Kenneth Pyle and the late Jim Palais, both of whom inspired me to think historically and to continue my graduate studies at the doctoral level. I would also like to thank Mickey Adolphson, Fred Dickinson, Niall Ferguson, Tom Havens, Erez Manela, Peter Mauch, Ian Miller, Janis Mimura, Dick Samuels, and Franziska Seraphim for reading and providing valuable advice on earlier versions of this study. Equallyimportantly,IalsobenefitedgreatlyfromagroupofscholarsacrossAsia.Nojima(Kat¯o)Yo¯kotookmeinasaresearchstudentandintroducedmeto primary documents as well as important secondary sources. The most unex pected form of support came from Mori Shigeki, who answered numerous ques tions I had on Japanese political history. In fact, he came to our first meeting at a café armed with a threepage list of all the books and articles I needed to read in order to understand the Greater East Asia CoProsperity Sphere. This was a kindness I still appreciate today. Iokibe Kaoru gave me an institutional home in the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, offered opportunities to present my work, and generously helped me secure a grant to continue research in Tokyo. Suzuki Tamon and Kokubu Ko¯ji both introduced me to new sources and helped me navigate the world of Japanese academe. The late Lydia YuJose

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provided an affiliation at Ateneo de Manila University and helped me gain access to a variety of archives in metro Manila. Finally, I want to thank Adachi Hiroaki and Kawanishi Ko¯suke for sharing their own excellent work on Japan’s Co Prosperity Sphere with me at a critical stage of my writing process. Iwouldalsoliketothankthearchivistsandlibrarianswhomadethisresearchless daunting and more enjoyable than I could have ever hoped. This project was born at Harvard and took me on a journey across Asia. In the process, I relied on the tireless assistance from archivists in Cambridge, Tokyo, Washing ton, London, Manila, Yangon, Kolkata, and Hong Kong. In particular, I would like to express my most sincere appreciation for the archivists and librarians at the HarvardYenching Library, the National Diet Library, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Records Office, the National Institute for Defense Studies, the British Library, the National Archives of the United Kingdom, the José P. Laurel Memorial Library, the National Library of the Philippines, the Library of Con gress, the National Archives Department (Yangon), and the University Library at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where many of my best ideas emerged. Ihavebeenfortunatetobeamongafantasticgroupoffellowtravelersandwriters who often had a preternatural ability to distract me from my studies. While at Harvard, Javier Cha, Nick Kapur, Konrad Lawson, John Lee, Stefan Link, ShiLin Loh, Johan Mathew, Motokazu Matsutani, Sreemati Mitter, Sean O’Reilly, Danny Orbach, Julie Stephens, and Heidi and Michael Tworek often pulled me away from my desk to more pleasurable pursuits. A special thankyou goes to Tariq Ali, who always knew how to keep me inspired while at Harvard. Finally, the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has offered a wonderful scholarly home and a place to finish this project. I am particularly thankful for research assistance from Ann Lui and Hanako Negishi as I completed revisions. ThisbooktookitsfinalformthankstothetirelesseffortsofEmilyAndrewand the staff at Cornell University Press. I appreciate Emily’s continued belief in this project and her willingness to read chapters even before I submitted the manuscript for review. Emily also put me in touch with cartographer Mike Bechthold, who produced the wonderful map of Greater East Asia. Moreover, the blind review process was a fantastic experience. The three anonymous review ers gave excellent constructive criticisms and pointed out important weaknesses in my arguments. Moreover, one anonymous reviewer went above and beyond the call of duty, pointing out simple ways to reframe my arguments in a more persuasive manner. Any faults or errors that remain, however, are exclusively my responsibility. Finally,Iwouldliketothanktheacademicfoundationsandgroupsthatpro vided generous financial support for this project. This project took off owing

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to support from the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Asia Center, the South Asia Initiative, and the History Department at Harvard Uni versity, which sent me across the world in search of documents. My dissertation research was supported by the Fulbright Institute of International Education (IIE) as well as the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Since coming to Hong Kong, book revisions and additional research were supported in part by a direct grant from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a generous grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administra tive Region, China (Project No. CUHK 24610615). The publication of this book was aided through a generous publication subvention fund from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.