Japan as an Immigration Nation: Demographic Change, Economic Necessity and the Human Community Concept.

Hidenori Sakanaka has been one of the most important figures in shaping Japan's immigration policy in the last 50 years. It is difficult to think about colonial Japan's aim to create a Japan-led "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" as anything other than an ideology of Japan as a chosen nation. [Extracted from the article]