Japan’s Southward Policy

Abstract

In a period when everybody is riveting his attention upon Manchuria as the actual “cockpit of Asia” as a recent author has not ineptly called it, there is great likelihood that we forget the other potential cockpits on the continent in which Japan is destined to play a role no less characteristic than what she is already playing in Manchuria. One such potential cockpit is certainly Nanyang. For many years Japan has adopted two policies of political expansion, one northward into Korea, Manchuria, and Russian Siberia, and the other southward into British Malaya, Dutch West Indies, and other insular and peninsular regions which the Chinese have for centuries conveniently termed “Nanyang.” The northward policy is now being worked out in great detail, with much pomposity and no less verbosity.

(Originally published in The China Critic, Vol. V, No. 18, May 5, 1932, by the name of: Q. P.)