Edited sentence: In reality it was largely motivated by racism and economic interest.The entire ideology that Japan used to justify it’s imperialism into East Asia was that of a “co-prosperity sphere” or that that Japan was actually doing East Asia a favor by invading it.The preceding statement is irresponsible scholarship and borderlines apologism.To assert that Fukuzawa Yukichi existed in a vacuum and was not a participant in Japanese imperialism or it’s justifying ideology is not exactly an accurate statement