Collège De France (général)

Anne ChengCollège de FranceHistoire intellectuelle de la ChineAnnée 2024-2025Conférence - Naoko Shimazu : Symbolic Diplomacy: Tojo and the 1943 Tokyo ConferenceNaoko ShimazuProfessor and Deputy Director, Tokyo CollegeNaoko Shimazu est invitée par l'assemblée du Collège de France sur proposition de la Pr Anne Cheng.RésuméThe Greater East Asia Conference was held on 5 and 6 November 1943 in Tokyo, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister General Tōjō Hideki. Variously known as the Tokyo Conference, the Greater East Asia Congress, or the Assembly of East Asiatic Nations, the conference gathered the five 'independent' states of the Manchukuo, Reorganised National Government of China (the Nanjing Regime), the Philippines, Burma, and Thailand within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, to show a united front against the Allied powers, and most importantly, to confirm the establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. It was the only large-scale diplomatic pageantry held in wartime Japan that at