Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese last week took another step towards liquidating all Christian influence in their "co-prosperity sphere." This abolished religious instruction in public schools throughout the Philippines. Since most of the Filipinos are Roman Catholics, this is indirectly a slap at the Vatican, with which Japan established diplomatic relations last spring...
...guise of Allied intervention, they seized Vladivostok, a port worthwhile for itself and dangerously near Japan's home islands. They attempted to lodge their armies deep in southern Siberia, so far north of China and Manchuria that the Russians could never strike through that area at a sphere which Japan held to be its own, or at Japan itself. Thus did the Japs justify this outrageous grab...
...protracted failure to close the "Chinese Incident" and justifying bigger & bigger war budgets, stamped China's Chiang Kai-shek as a personal enemy to be exterminated. He repeatedly pointed to the U.S.S.R. as a Communist peril and an Asian rival to be driven from Japan's ordained sphere. Less often, less pointedly in the middle '30s, when Japan was shaping the final blows to come, did he and other military spokesmen refer to the U.S. as an enemy. But the U.S. never lapsed from their memories and their plans. With delicate foresight and precision, they geared their...
...special status of Itagaki's army testifies to the quality of his military and political planning, the importance of his sphere. His Kwantung army is responsible, not to the War Office in Tokyo, but to the Emperor himself. In this-to the Japanese-vital respect, the Kwantung army is on a par with the Japanese army as a whole...
There was no reason to believe that the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was already tottering. It was simply rickety. It would not stand up to a real good earthquake...