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Japan was a crowded island empire. They felt they needed room to expand, but mostly they wanted to sell their manufactured goods to nearby countries that they could control. Just before 1941, they coined the term 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere' to define their newly expanded empire.

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