Oftentimes the military people seem a lot more dismissive of this idea of asia for the asiatics than japanese intellectuals, citizens or soldiers do. And i don't know if that's because the entire thing was nothing, this is what i learned growing up, but nothing but a fig leaf for japanese brutal imperialism the whole time. Or whether it was a case of the japanese right hand not knowing or caring what the japans left hand was doing. Bottom line though is that, even though something like that is a huge long shot, the Japs might be trying to cloud seed a revolution here. And that's a fascinating concept when you're down