Pan-Asianism in Meiji and Taishô Japan : A Preliminary Framework
Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts, makes any sense within the framework of Asian andJapanese history.
