Sublime

A most remarkable diplomatic initiative, known as the Iwakura Mission, was launched. Senior Japanese diplomats voyaged around the world to establish new diplomatic relations with Europe and the United States and to study best practices abroad as the basis for Japanese reforms in many key areas, including the structure of government, central banking

In March 1932, in the midst of the Lytton Commission’s investigation, Kōjin published a special issue on Manchuria, calling the region “our Mecca, the most fertile place for the salvation of the engineers’ world.”6

Hirota cabinet (1936–37)

1938 the government created the Asia Development Agency (kōain)

Riken Zaibatsu in the late 1920s. He

Japan had something different to offer: “Asia for the Asiatics.” That slogan may sound banal today, but for a region long colonized, it was a powerful, revolutionary idea. Even Romulo conceded that it was “morally unassailable.