
thumb|Japanese expansion in the Asia-Pacific after Kantokuen was cancelled
thumb|Japanese expansion in the Asia-Pacific after Kantokuen was cancelled
was a political doctrine in the Empire of Japan that stated that Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands were Japan's sphere of interest and that their potential value to the Empire for economic and territorial expansion was greater than elsewhere.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).