Royama Masamichi’s perception of international order from the 1920s to 1930s and the concept of the East Asian Community

The thematic concern underlying this chapter is to trace the process from the First to the Second World War from the perspective of international order. At the same time, this is also an attempt to trace in what way the pre-war order was reconfigured and the post-war order was prepared. In my opinion, to consider how the international order was understood in Japan-which, with its military invasions of the 1930s, opened the way for the disturbance and destruction of the post-First World War international order-is also to clarify the significance of East Asia becoming the stage of world war, as well as to clarify the historical specificity of the Second World War.