单词 | co-prosperity sphere |
释义 | co-prosperity spheren. The sphere (sense 7d) controlled by Japan during the war of 1941–45. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > sphere > specific co-prosperity sphere1941 red belt1947 1941 Times (Weekly ed.) 15 Oct. 4/4 The Japanese, for all their talk of ‘new orders’ and ‘co-prosperity spheres’ can offer China nothing that the Chinese cannot devise for themselves. 1943 Ann. Reg. 1942 280 The Japanese ‘Co-Prosperity Sphere’ embraced Japan, Manchukuo, a large and rich part of China, Indo-China, Thailand, Malaya, the Philippines, Burma, and the Dutch East Indies. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. iii. 41 Hitler's aim of a ‘new order’ in Europe was anticipated by many years by the Japanese ‘new order’— now rechristened Co-Prosperity Sphere—in East Asia. The long-declared aim of this is to establish complete Japanese supremacy in the Far East, with Japan in a privileged economic and military position. 1967 Economist 22 Apr. 331/2 The talk here these days is of a southern African ‘co-prosperity sphere’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1941 |
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