Three U.S. Reports Concerning Japanese Pan-Asianism and Pan-Islamism (<Special Issue> Japan and the Middle East before World War II)

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Recently we find the more official documents to study about Japanese Pan-Asianism and Pan-Islamism. Foreign archives include interesting documents about Pan-Islamism as a part of Japanese Pan-Asianism and their effect on the Asian states. The British Public Record Office, the Prime Ministry Republican Archive of Turkey, and the several archives of the United States of America are some of the important bases for information about the subject. In this paper, I would like to introduce three reports, prepared by the Research & Analysis Banch(R&A) of Office of Strategic Services(OSS) of U.S., as the example of such official documents. These reports are about Japanese Islamic propaganda as a tool for Pan-Asianism. Titles of documents are: Japanese Infiltration Among Muslims Throughout the World, Japanese Infiltration Among Muslims in China, and Japanese Attempts at Infiltration Among Muslims in Russia and her Borderlands. The main sources of these documents are intelligence reports, academic studies, newspapers, and magazines.