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Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere In the 1940’s, Japan wanted to expand its territory. While America and Europe were well into World War II, no one realized Japan was taking over from the north of Manchuria to the Dutch East Indies, creating a sphere of influence in eastern China. Japan says their reason for doing this was to liberate Asia from the Europeans, but they actually needed it most for its recourses, since Japan has always been very limited. Japan’s acts have been compared to Hitler’s ways also.

Resources: America: Pathways to the Present pg. 584 Picture Recourses: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_11/images/map1.jpg