Greater East Asia War

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The Greater East Asia War (大東亜戰争 daitōasensō?) 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

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