What was Japan's master plan for the Far East prior to World War 2?

Answer 1

Japan had this slogan during World War 2: Asia is for Asian, which was one of the reasons why they staged invasions across Asian countries. They wanted to be the most powerful in the Far East so they worked to expand their empire, invading even the giant China, which was not that economically and politically powerful that time.

Answer 2

Prior to World War 2, Japans wanted to conquer territories in the Pacific and Far East formerly controlled by European powers as colonies.They would then set up something called the South East Asian CO-Prosperity Sphere, in reality a Japanese empire.The raw materials from this empire would then be used to feed the Japanese war machine, in particular to help complete the conquest of China.

Japan had no intentions to attack the US and the reason the attack on pearl harbor was to attack the American Pacific Fleet, this prevented it from interfering with the initial wave of Japanese conquests.

Answer 3

Controlling most of Asia & the pacific, with the attending mineral weath that came with it.