The Japanese pursuit of a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" won over Southeast Asian nations with its egalitarian form of economic cooperation.

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The Japanese pursuit of a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was actually a colonial expansionist policy aimed at creating a Japan-dominated economic and political bloc in Asia. It involved the use of force and was not based on egalitarian form of economic cooperation. Many Southeast Asian nations were subjugated and suffered under Japanese occupation during World War II.

The Japanese Pursuit of a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere