Gen'yōsha
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The Dark/Black Ocean Society was an influential Pan-Asianist group and secret society active in the Empire of Japan.
Tōyama Mitsuru (center), Kodama Yoshio (first row, second from right) on a meeting of the Dark/Black Ocean Society (Gen'yosha), 1929
A Gen'yōsha memorial
Pan-Asianism
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Pan-Asianism is an ideology aimed at creating a political and economic unity among Asian peoples. Various theories and movements of Pan-Asianism have been proposed, particularly from East, South and Southeast Asia. The motive for the movement was in opposition to the values of Western imperialism and colonialism, and that Asian values were superior to European values.
Satellite photograph of Asia in orthographic projection.
Greater East Asia Conference in November 1943, the participants were (L–R): Ba Maw, representative of Burma, Zhang Jinghui, representative of Manchukuo, Wang Jingwei, representative of China, Hideki Tōjō, representative of Japan, Wan Waithayakon, representative of Thailand, José P. Laurel, representative of Philippines, Subhas Chandra Bose, representative of India
Japanese Pan-Asian writer Shūmei Ōkawa
Chinese Pan-Asian thinker Wang Hui