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Original: Background Ever since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, nationalists in the Asian nations ruled by the "white powers" such as India, Vietnam, etc. and those that chafed at "unequal treaties"  like China had always looked to Japan as a role model, an Asian nation that had modernized and defeated the European nation, Russia  .
Revised: Background Ever since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, nationalists in the Asian nations ruled by the "white powers" such as India, Vietnam, etc. and those that had "unequal treaties" like China had always looked to Japan as a role model, an Asian nation that had modernized and defeated the European nation, Russia .
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Original: Background Ever since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, nationalists in the Asian nations ruled by the "white powers" such as India, Vietnam, etc. and those that chafed at "unequal treaties"  like China had always looked to Japan as a role model, an Asian nation that had modernized and defeated the European nation, Russia  .
Revised: Background Ever since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, nationalists in the Asian nations ruled by the "white powers" such as India, Vietnam, etc. and those that chafed at "unequal treaties" forced upon them like China had always looked to Japan as a role model, an Asian nation that had modernized and defeated the European nation, Russia .
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Original: Background Ever since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, nationalists in the Asian nations ruled by the "white powers" such as India, Vietnam, etc. and those that chafed at "unequal treaties"  like China had always looked to Japan as a role model, an Asian nation that had modernized and defeated the European nation, Russia  .
Revised: Background Ever since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, nationalists in the Asian nations ruled by the "white powers" such as India, Vietnam, etc. and those that chafed at "unequal treaties" like China had always looked to Japan as a role model, an Asian nation that had modernized and defeated a European nation, Russia .
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Original:  Precisely because the Emperor was worshiped as a living god who was morally "pure" and "just" in a way that no mortal could ever be , the self-perception in Japan was that the Japanese state could never do anything wrong as under the leadership of the divine Emperor, everything the Japanese state did was "just".
Revised:  Because the Emperor was worshiped as a living god who was morally "pure" and "just" in a way that no mortal could ever be , the self-perception in Japan was that the Japanese state could never do anything wrong as under the leadership of the divine Emperor, everything the Japanese state did was "just".
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Original:  Precisely because the Emperor was worshiped as a living god who was morally "pure" and "just" in a way that no mortal could ever be , the self-perception in Japan was that the Japanese state could never do anything wrong as under the leadership of the divine Emperor, everything the Japanese state did was "just".
Revised:  Precisely because the Emperor was worshiped as a living god who was morally "pure" and "just" , the self-perception in Japan was that the Japanese state could never do anything wrong as under the leadership of the divine Emperor, everything the Japanese state did was "just".
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Original:  For this reason, any war waged by Japan was automatically viewed by the Japanese people as "just" and "moral" as the divine Emperor could never wage an "unjust" war.
Revised:  For this reason, Japanese people were predisposed to view any war as "just" and "moral" as the divine Emperor could never wage an "unjust" war.
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Original:  Within this context, many Japanese believed it was the "mission" of Japan to end white supremacy in Asia, and free the other Asians suffering under the rule of the "white powers".
Revised:  Within this context, many Japanese believed it was the "mission" of Japan to end the domination of "white" nations in Asia, and free the other Asians suffering under the rule of the "white powers".
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Original: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 pages 244-246 The Japanese government depicted the war as a race war between the benevolent Asians led of course by Japan, the most powerful Asian country against the utterly evil " Anglo-Saxons " led by the U.S. and the British Empire, who were portrayed as sub-human "white devils".
Revised: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 pages 244-246 The Japanese government depicted the war as a race war between the benevolent Asians led by Japan, the most powerful Asian country against the utterly evil " Anglo-Saxons " led by the U.S. and the British Empire, who were portrayed as sub-human "white devils".
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Original: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 pages 244-246 The Japanese government depicted the war as a race war between the benevolent Asians led of course by Japan, the most powerful Asian country against the utterly evil " Anglo-Saxons " led by the U.S. and the British Empire, who were portrayed as sub-human "white devils".
Revised: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 pages 244-246 The Japanese government depicted the war as a race war between the benevolent Asians led of course by Japan, the most powerful Asian country against the Anglo-Saxons " led by the U.S. and the British Empire, who were portrayed as sub-human "white devils".
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Original: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 pages 244-246 The Japanese government depicted the war as a race war between the benevolent Asians led of course by Japan, the most powerful Asian country against the utterly evil " Anglo-Saxons " led by the U.S. and the British Empire, who were portrayed as sub-human "white devils".
Revised: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 pages 244-246 The Japanese government depicted the war as a race war between the benevolent Asians led of course by Japan, the most powerful Asian country against the utterly evil " Anglo-Saxons led by the U.S. and the British Empire, who were portrayed as sub-human "white devils".
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Original: The Conference addressed few issues of substance, but was intended from the start as a propaganda show piece, to illustrate Japan's commitments to the Pan-Asianism ideal and to emphasize its role as the "liberator" of Asia from Western colonialism.
Revised: The Conference addressed few issues of substance, but was intended from the start as a propaganda show piece, to convince members of Japan's commitments to the Pan-Asianism ideal and to emphasize its role as the "liberator" of Asia from Western colonialism.
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Original: The Conference addressed few issues of substance, but was intended from the start as a propaganda show piece, to illustrate Japan's commitments to the Pan-Asianism ideal and to emphasize its role as the "liberator" of Asia from Western colonialism.
Revised: The Conference addressed few issues of substance, but was intended from the start as a propaganda show piece, to illustrate Japan's commitments to the Pan-Asianism ideal , with an emphasis on their role as the "liberator" of Asia from Western colonialism.
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Original:  Pantheon 1993 page 6 For all their Pan-Asian talk about creating a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere where all the Asian peoples would live together as brothers and sisters, in reality as shown by the July 1943 planning document An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus, the Japanese saw themselves as the racially superior "Great Yamato race", which was naturally destined to dominate forever the other racially inferior Asian peoples.
Revised:  Pantheon 1993 page 6 But for all their Pan-Asian talk about creating a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere where all the Asian peoples would live together as brothers and sisters, in reality as shown by the July 1943 planning document An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus, the Japanese saw themselves as the racially superior "Great Yamato race", which was naturally destined to dominate forever the other racially inferior Asian peoples.
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Original: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 page 263-264 Prior to the Greater East Asia Conference, Japan had made vague promises of independence to various anti-colonial pro-independence organizations in the territories it had overrun, but aside from a number of obvious puppet states set up in China, these promises had not been fulfilled.
Revised: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 page Prior to the Greater East Asia Conference, Japan had made vague promises of independence to various anti-colonial pro-independence organizations in the territories it had overrun, but aside from a number of obvious puppet states set up in China, these promises had not been fulfilled.
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Original: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 page 263-264 Prior to the Greater East Asia Conference, Japan had made vague promises of independence to various anti-colonial pro-independence organizations in the territories it had overrun, but aside from a number of obvious puppet states set up in China, these promises had not been fulfilled.
Revised: Dower, John War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, New York: Pantheon 1993 page 263-264 263-264Prior to the Greater East Asia Conference, Japan had made vague promises of independence to various anti-colonial pro-independence organizations in the territories it had overrun, but aside from a number of obvious puppet states set up in China, these promises had not been fulfilled.
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Original:  Now, with the tide of the Pacific War turning against Japan, bureaucrats in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and supporters of the Pan-Asian philosophy within the government and military pushed forward a program to grant rapid "independence" to various parts of Asia in an effort to increase local resistance to and possible return of the western colonial powers and  to boost local support for the Japanese war effort.
Revised:  Now, with the tide of the Pacific War turning against Japan, bureaucrats in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and supporters of the Pan-Asian philosophy within the government and military pushed forward a program to grant rapid "independence" to various parts of Asia in an effort to increase local resistance to western colonial powers and to boost local support for the Japanese war effort.
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Original:  of Asia from Western colonialism . Background Ever since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, people in the Asian nations ruled by the "white powers" such as India, Vietnam, etc. and those that had "unequal treaties" forced upon them like China had always looked to Japan as a role model, the first Asian nation that had modernized and defeated a European nation, Russia, in modern times.
Revised:  of Asia from Western imperialism . Background Ever since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, people in the Asian nations ruled by the "white powers" such as India, Vietnam, etc. and those that had "unequal treaties" forced upon them like China had always looked to Japan as a role model, the first Asian nation that had modernized and defeated a European nation, Russia, in modern times.
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Original:  and the "White Canada" policy together with reports about how Asians suffered from prejudice in the United States, Canada and in places ruled by Europeans like Singapore .
Revised:  and the "White Canada" policy together with reports about how Asians suffered from prejudice in the United States, Canada , Australia and European colonies in Asia .
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Original:  In 1941, when Japan went to war with the United States , Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Netherlands , the Japanese portrayed themselves as engaging in a war of liberation on behalf of all the peoples of Asia.
Revised:  In 1941, when Japan declared war on the United States , Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Netherlands , the Japanese portrayed themselves as engaging in a war of liberation on behalf of all the peoples of Asia.
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Original:  In particular, there was a marked racism to Japanese propaganda with the Japanese government issuing cartoons depicting the Americans and British as "white devils" or "white demons", complete with claws, fangs, horns and tails.
Revised:  In particular, there was a marked racism to Japanese propaganda with the Japanese government issuing cartoons depicting the Western powers as "white devils" or "white demons", complete with claws, fangs, horns and tails.
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Original:  Now, with the tide of the Pacific War turning against Japan, bureaucrats in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and supporters of the Pan-Asian philosophy within the government and military pushed forward a program to grant rapid "independence" to various parts of Asia in an effort to increase local resistance to western colonial powers and trigger the latter's return and to boost local support for the Japanese war effort.
Revised:  Now, with the tide of the Pacific War turning against Japan, bureaucrats in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and supporters of the Pan-Asian philosophy within the government and military pushed forward a program to grant rapid "independence" to various parts of Asia in an effort to increase local resistance to the Allies and trigger the latter's return and to boost local support for the Japanese war effort.
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Original:  The issue of British Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies was complex.
Revised:  The issue of Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies was complex.
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Original:  The issue of British Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies was complex.
Revised:  The issue of British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies was complex.
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Original:  Large portions were under military rule by the Imperial Japanese Army or Imperial Japanese Navy, and the organizers of the Greater East Asia Conference were dismayed by the unilateral decision of the Imperial General Headquarters to annex these territories to the Japanese Empire on May 31, 1943, rather than to grant nominal independence.
Revised:  Large portions were under occupation by the Imperial Japanese Army or Imperial Japanese Navy, and the organizers of the Greater East Asia Conference were dismayed by the unilateral decision of the Imperial General Headquarters to annex these territories to the Japanese Empire on May 31, 1943, rather than to grant nominal independence.
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Original:  Ba Maw, Head of State and Prime Minister of the State of Burma Subhas Chandra Bose, Head of State of the Provisional Government of Free India Jose P. Laurel, President of the Republic of the Philippines Wan Waithayakon, Prince and Envoy from the Kingdom of Thailand Strictly speaking, Subhas Chandra Bose was present only as an "observer", since India was still under British rule .
Revised:  Ba Maw, Head of State and Prime Minister of the State of Burma Subhas Chandra Bose, Head of State of the Provisional Government of Free India Jose P. Laurel, President of the Republic of the Philippines Wan Waithayakon, Prince and Envoy from the Kingdom of Thailand Strictly speaking, Subhas Chandra Bose was present only as an "observer", since India was a British colony .
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Original:  Tōjō greeted them with a speech praising the "spiritual essence" of Asia, as opposed to the "materialistic civilization" of the West.W. G. Beasley, The Rise of Modern Japan, p 204 Their meeting was characterized by praise of solidarity and condemnation of Western colonialism , but without practical plans for either economic development or integration.
Revised:  Tōjō greeted them with a speech praising the "spiritual essence" of Asia, as opposed to the "materialistic civilization" of the West.W. G. Beasley, The Rise of Modern Japan, p 204 Their meeting was characterized by praise of solidarity and condemnation of Western imperialism , but without practical plans for either economic development or integration.
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Original:  The fact that Choe and Yi had once been Korean independence activists who had been bitterly opposed to the Japanese rule made their presence at the conference a real propaganda coup for the Japanese  , as it seemed to show that Japanese imperialism was so beneficial to the peoples subjected to Japan that even those who once been opposed to the Japanese had now seen the errors of their ways.
Revised:  The fact that Choe and Yi had once been Korean independence activists who had been bitterly opposed to the Japanese rule made their presence at the conference a propaganda coup for the Japanese , as it seemed to show that Japanese imperialism was so beneficial to the peoples subjected to Japan that even those who once been opposed to the Japanese had now seen the errors of their ways.
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Original:  The fact that Choe and Yi had once been Korean independence activists who had been bitterly opposed to the Japanese rule made their presence at the conference a real propaganda coup for the Japanese  , as it seemed to show that Japanese imperialism was so beneficial to the peoples subjected to Japan that even those who once been opposed to the Japanese had now seen the errors of their ways.
Revised:  The fact that Choe and Yi had once been Korean independence activists who had been bitterly opposed to the Japanese rule made their presence at the conference a real propaganda coup for the Japanese government , as it seemed to show that Japanese imperialism was so beneficial to the peoples subjected to Japan that even those who once been opposed to the Japanese had now seen the errors of their ways.
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Original:  Palgrave, 2010 pages 190-191 In addition, the Korean speakers strongly condemned the " Anglo-Saxon " powers Britain and the U.S. as the most deadly enemies of Asian civilization that had ever existed , and praised Japan as the defender of Asia from the "Anglo-Saxons" . As Japan had about two million soldiers fighting in China, making it by far the largest theatre of operations for Japan, by 1943 the Tōjō cabinet had decided to make peace with China to focus on fighting the Americans.
Revised:  Palgrave, 2010 pages 190-191 The Koreans present also spoke passionately against the " Anglo-Saxon " powers Britain and the U.S. as the most deadly enemies of Asian civilization that had ever existed , and praised Japan as the defender of Asia from the "Anglo-Saxons" . As Japan had about two million soldiers fighting in China, making it by far the largest theatre of operations for Japan, by 1943 the Tōjō cabinet had decided to make peace with China to focus on fighting the Americans.
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Original:  Palgrave, 2010 pages 190-191 In addition, the Korean speakers strongly condemned the " Anglo-Saxon " powers Britain and the U.S. as the most deadly enemies of Asian civilization that had ever existed , and praised Japan as the defender of Asia from the "Anglo-Saxons" . As Japan had about two million soldiers fighting in China, making it by far the largest theatre of operations for Japan, by 1943 the Tōjō cabinet had decided to make peace with China to focus on fighting the Americans.
Revised:  Palgrave, 2010 pages 190-191 In addition, the Korean speakers strongly condemned the " Western devils " powers Britain and the U.S. as the most deadly enemies of Asian civilization that had ever existed , and praised Japan as the defender of Asia from the "Anglo-Saxons" . As Japan had about two million soldiers fighting in China, making it by far the largest theatre of operations for Japan, by 1943 the Tōjō cabinet had decided to make peace with China to focus on fighting the Americans.
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Original:  Palgrave, 2010 pages 190-191 In addition, the Korean speakers strongly condemned the " Anglo-Saxon " powers Britain and the U.S. as the most deadly enemies of Asian civilization that had ever existed , and praised Japan as the defender of Asia from the "Anglo-Saxons" . As Japan had about two million soldiers fighting in China, making it by far the largest theatre of operations for Japan, by 1943 the Tōjō cabinet had decided to make peace with China to focus on fighting the Americans.
Revised:  Palgrave, 2010 pages 190-191 In addition, the Korean speakers strongly condemned the " Anglo-Saxon " , describing them as the " most deadly enemies of Asian civilization that had ever existed , and praised Japan as the defender of Asia from the "Anglo-Saxons" . As Japan had about two million soldiers fighting in China, making it by far the largest theatre of operations for Japan, by 1943 the Tōjō cabinet had decided to make peace with China to focus on fighting the Americans.
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Original:  Palgrave, 2010 pages 190-191 In addition, the Korean speakers strongly condemned the " Anglo-Saxon " powers Britain and the U.S. as the most deadly enemies of Asian civilization that had ever existed , and praised Japan as the defender of Asia from the "Anglo-Saxons" . As Japan had about two million soldiers fighting in China, making it by far the largest theatre of operations for Japan, by 1943 the Tōjō cabinet had decided to make peace with China to focus on fighting the Americans.
Revised:  Palgrave, 2010 pages 190-191 In addition, the Korean speakers strongly condemned the " Anglo-Saxon " powers Britain and the U.S. as the most deadly enemies of Asian civilization that had ever existed ", and praising Japan for it's role in standing up to them . As Japan had about two million soldiers fighting in China, making it by far the largest theatre of operations for Japan, by 1943 the Tōjō cabinet had decided to make peace with China to focus on fighting the Americans.
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Original:  Weinberg wrote about Japanese propaganda in China that " The Japanese had in effect written off any prospects for propaganda in China by their atrocious conduct in the country", but in the rest of Asia the slogan "Asia for Asians" had much "resonance" as many people in Southeast Asia had no love for the British, the Dutch, the French and the Americans who ruled over them.
Revised:  Weinberg noted that in regards to Japanese propaganda in China that " The Japanese had in effect written off any prospects for propaganda in China by their atrocious conduct in the country", but in the rest of Asia the slogan "Asia for Asians" had much "resonance" as many people in Southeast Asia had no love for the British, the Dutch, the French and the Americans who ruled over them.
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Original:  Weinberg wrote about Japanese propaganda in China that " The Japanese had in effect written off any prospects for propaganda in China by their atrocious conduct in the country", but in the rest of Asia the slogan "Asia for Asians" had much "resonance" as many people in Southeast Asia had no love for the British, the Dutch, the French and the Americans who ruled over them.
Revised:  Weinberg wrote about Japanese propaganda in China , " The Japanese had in effect written off any prospects for propaganda in China by their atrocious conduct in the country", but in the rest of Asia the slogan "Asia for Asians" had much "resonance" as many people in Southeast Asia had no love for the British, the Dutch, the French and the Americans who ruled over them.
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