Greater East Asia War

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The is a translation of one of several terms used in Japan to describe its period of warfare in the 1930s and early 1940s, which includes Japan's part in World War II. During the post-war occupation, the American General Headquarters or Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers banned the use of the term due to its association with Japan's wartime government and policies, namely the notion of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

The two major components of it were

• the Greater East Asia War in China, known as the Second Sino-Japanese War to western historians, and
• the Greater East Asia War in the Pacific, known as the Pacific War.

 

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