An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus
- An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus
was a secret Japanese government report created by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and completed on July 1 1943. The document, comprising 6 volumes totaling 3,127 pages, deals with the rationale behind policies adopted by wartime Japan towards other races, while also providing a vision of Asia under Japanese control.
Some statements coincide with the then publicly espoused concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, while most others suggested that Japan, as a purportedly racially superior people, intended to dominate all other peoples of Asia. It included plans for Japanese colonisation of most of the eastern hemisphere including New Zealand and Australia, with projected populations in 1950. The authors rationalised this expansion as "securing the living space of the Yamato race", a very clear echo of the Nazi concept of "Lebensraum".
The document was unknown until 1981, when one of its volumes turned up in a used bookstore in Japan. In 1982 the Ministry of Health and Welfare then released the full 6 volume version along with another 2 volumes entitled "The Influence of War upon Population". [citation| title=War Without Mercy| last=Dower| first=John W.| publisher=Pantheon Books| location=New York| year=1986| page=262-290]
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