The spring of 1942 seemed destined to witness an increase in the Empire of the Rising Sun's dominions that could only be compared to the Conquest. To the accompaniment of cries of "Asia is for Asians," the dominance of European powers was cut with the steel of a samurai sword. But in the pompously named "Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere", which stretched thousands of miles from the island Empire, there was no smell of prosperity: for the Japanese, prosperity (of course!) Was postponed until the end of the war, and for the "liberated from the white yoke" representatives nationalities, although it was proclaimed, it was by no means planned.