pan-Asianism

Obviously, it would be an oversimplification to argue that the ideology of pan-Asianism caused Japan’s expansionism, as the ideology itself developed together with Japan’s expansionist policies.

2012, Alexander Bukh, “Japan’s diplomacy and culture”, in B.J.C. McKercher, editor, Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part II (The Great Powers), page 100

In general, communist understandings of nationhood proved more successful than less statist conceptions, such as ideas based on the Muslim community, the Malay bangsa, or ideas proffered by the millennarian^([sic]) religions such as Cao Dai and Hoa Hao in Vietnam, whose pan-Asianism caused them to side with Japan in the war against French colonial rule.

2014, Anna Belogurova, “Communism in South East Asia”, in Stephen A. Smith, editor, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Global Communism), page 239