Vient de paraître Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II. Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home ? de Sven Matthiessen chez Brill

Vient de paraître Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II. Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home ? de Sven Matthiessen chez Brill, "Brill’s Japanese Studies Library" (volume 53), 2015, VIII—248 p. ISBN : 9789004305533 Prix : 98 € (existe aussi en version électronique).

"In Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late 19th Century to the End of World War II – Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home ? Sven Matthiessen examines the development of Japanese Pan-Asianism and the perception of the Philippines within this ideology. Due to the archipelago’s previous colonisation by Spain and the US the Philippines was a special case among the Japanese occupied territories during the war. Matthiessen convincingly proves that the widespread pro-Americanism among the Philippine population made it impossible for Japanese administrators to implement a pan-Asianist ideology that centred on a ’return to Asian values’. The expectation among some Japanese Pan-Asianists that ‘going to the Philippines was like coming home’ was never fulfilled."

Sven Matthiessen received his Ph.D./Doctorate of Law from the University of Sheffield and Tohoku University in the joint degree program of the two universities in 2012. He has published articles on Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.