page_title: Second Philippine Republic
section_title: Greater East Asia Conference
hierarchical_section_title: Second Philippine Republic / The Republic / Greater East Asia Conference
caption_attribution_description: English: Greater East Asia Conference. Government representatives of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. From left to right: Ba Maw (from Burma), Zhang Jinghui, Wang Jingwei (from China), Hideki Tōjō (Prime Minister of Japan), Wan Waithayakon (from Thailand), José P. Laurel (from the Philippines), Subhas Chandra Bose (from India).日本語: 大東亜会議中文（中国大陆）‎: 大东亚会议中文（香港）‎: 大東亞會議Deutsch: Die "Großostasien-Konferenz" im November 1943
context_page_description: The Second Philippine Republic, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines and also known as the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic, was a puppet state established on October 14, 1943, during the Japanese occupation.
context_section_description: The Greater East Asia Conference (大東亜会議, Dai Tōa Kaigi) was an international summit held in Tokyo from November 5 to 6, 1943, in which Japan hosted the heads of state of various component members of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The event was also referred to as the Tokyo Conference. The Conference addressed few issues of substance, but was intended from the start as a propaganda show piece, to illustrate the Empire of Japan's commitments to the Pan-Asianism ideal and to emphasize its role as the "liberator" of Asia from Western colonialism.
  The conference and the formal declaration adhered to on November 6 was little more than a propaganda gesture designed to rally regional support for the next stage of the war, outlining the ideals of which it was fought. However, the Conference marked a turning point in Japanese foreign policy and relations with other Asian nations. The defeat of Japanese forces on Guadalcanal (in present-day Solomon Islands) and an increasing awareness of the limitations to Japanese military strength led the Japanese civilian leadership to realize that a framework based on cooperation, rather than colonial domination would enable a greater mobilization of manpower and resources against the resurgent Allied Forces. It was also the start of efforts to create a framework that would allow for some form of diplomatic compromise should the military solution fail altogether. However these moves came too late to save the Empire, which surrendered to the Allies less than two years after the conference.
caption: Greater East Asia Conference in November 1943, Japanese PM Hideki Tōjō (center) with heads of Japan-supported regimes (L–R): Ba Maw (State of Burma), Zhang Jinghui (Manchukuo), Wang Jingwei (Republic of China, Nanjing), Tōjō, Wan Waithayakon (Thailand), José P. Laurel (Second Philippine Republic), and Subhas Chandra Bose (Provisional Government of Free India)
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