Japan's Pan-Asian Empire by Seok-Won Lee

Author:Seok-Won Lee [Lee, Seok-Won]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Asia, Japan, General, Modern, 20th Century
ISBN: 9781000334692
Google: aMYKEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-30T16:16:00+00:00

Ezawa’s understanding of national land planning and economic development clearly showed how he appropriated modernization as a driving force for constructing a new order. To be sure, he was also aware that capitalism had constantly caused economic inequality, and that this gap became the major reason for imperialism and colonialism. Therefore, modernization in a Japan-centered new order needed to be associated with restructuring the discriminatory political hierarchy between metropole and colony. Accordingly, his geopolitical approach to Southeast Asia concentrated on the question of how rapidly national land planning could restructure Southeast Asia into a modern space, and this was no doubt the same question that the general economic plan of imperial Japan had to confront. Criticizing Europe’s exploitative imperialist economy in Southeast Asia, Ezawa argued:

In order for Japan to construct a mutually unified relationship in Southeast Asia, it is imperative that Japan change the allocation and distribution of raw materials and at the same time change the transportation relations of these raw materials… . To discuss industrialization in Southeast Asia presumably means to correct the existing relationships [in Southeast Asia], and at the same time, the reconstruction of the existing relationships is essential in restructuring Japan’s economic structure itself from a new perspective.113

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