Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity (Colony Crisis Averted)

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity (Japanese:Dai-to-a Kyoeiken) was organization for collective defense and economic aid in Asia created by the East Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Tokyo Pact, sign in November 1959 in Tokyo, Japan. It represented the desired to create a self-sufficient "bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western imperial powers".It was first announced on a TV address entitled"The Global Situation and Japan's Position" by Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama on June 29,1959.