ABSTRACT
What, then, are these ideals and real intentions? “The present war,” said the Japanese-controlled Shanghai Times on November 2, 1942,
“is a hundred per cent. unselfish crusade undertaken by Japan in the interest of all East Asiatic nations, and it differs from previous wars in that it is a war of construction and not of destruction. Japan does not need the material assistance of her friends in East Asia, but she requires the assurance that the sacrifices she is now making for the liberation of East Asia should be appreciated by the nations for which she is fighting.”
