History glossary
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Japan's wartime vision of a Japanese-dominated order in Asia.
- Category
- Imperial ideology
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Date range
- 1940-1945
What it means
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was Japan's wartime claim that it would lead Asia away from Western imperialism. In practice, it served Japanese strategy, resource extraction and military control across occupied territories.
