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Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II
ISBN: 9789004305724
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Arabic poetry; Arabic poetry; Arabic poetry; Dialect poetry Arabic; Dialect poetry Arabic; Dialect poetry Arabic;

In Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late 19th Century to the End of World War II - Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home? Sven Matthiessen examines the development of Japanese Pan-Asianism and the perception of the Philippines within this ideology. Due to the archipelago's previous colonisation by Spain and the US the Philippines was a special case among the Japanese occupied territories during the war. Matthiessen convincingly proves that the widespread pro-Americanism among the Philippine population made it impossible for Japanese administrators to implement a pan-Asianist ideology that centred on a 'return to Asian values'. The expectation among some Japanese Pan-Asianists that 'going to the Philippines was like coming home' was never fulfilled.