What is the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere?

Answer 1

It's the official name of the Japanese Empire before and during World War II.

It was about as factual as the slogan of the Nazi concentration camps - Work Liberates.

Answer 2

East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

Answer 3

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (let's just say GEACPS for short from here on) was a political doctrine promoted by Japan in the 1930s and 1940s. When someone asked what Japanese troops were doing in Manchuria or China the Japanese government would reply "they're building the GEACPS." It was nothing more than a euphemism for the Japanese military conquest and economic exploitation of China, Thailand, Burma, the Philippine Islands, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the entire Pacific Ocean as far as Midway Island.

In practical terms it meant that a farmer in Thailand had to sell his entire rice crop to Japan at a price set by Japan, often less than what it cost him to plant and cultivate. It meant that a Philippino lawyer could be beaten to death for failing to speak Japanese in court. It meant that 30 million Chinese had to die for the crime of not welcoming the advent of the GEACPS.

Answer 4

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Answer 6

A plan that would give a number of Asian countries an economic advantage by working together to overcome those that could stop them.