Satō Nobuhiro (佐藤 信淵; July 18, 1769 – February 17, 1850) was aJapanese scientist and early advocate of JapaneseWesternization. He is considered the founder of the "GreaterEast Asia" concept.

Satō attempted to synthesize Western science (especiallyAstronomy) with Japanese political and philosophical thought. His ideas contributed to the early modern consolidation of the religion ofShinto, especially in the form ofState Shinto.^[1] In his 1825 treatiseTenchūku, Satō argued that the cosmology in theKojiki was both indigenous to Japan and the most compatible of all world religions with astronomy. He extended the Western model, however, by arguing that Shinto provided additional explanations for astronomical phenomenon that had not yet been explained by Western astronomy.^[1]

Satō advocated anauthoritarian government based on Western science and political institutions. In hisKeizai yōryaku (The Epitome of Economy), he wrote that "The rationale of economy is to manage the realm, develop goods, make domains affluent, and succor everyone."

Satō considered the Western Europeangreat powers to be a threat that Japan needed to counter by radical economic and military reforms, as well as imperial expansion along Western European lines. His 1823 workA Secret Plan for the Unification of the World (宇内混同秘策,Udai kondō hisaku) called for Japanese world domination, describing howChina should be conquered viaManchuria.

He suggested that the Japanese government embark on "colonial andagricultural undertakings" on uninhabited islands in theSouth China Sea. He also said that the Japanese government should take theRyūkyū as a base to attack and captureLuzon Island by surprise, then use Luzon as a base for its "southward advance" to seizeJava and other places, ultimately spreading its "military might" inSoutheast Asia. He believed that Japan should "adopt suitable means of aggression andannexation" to "increase itsnational interests." This became the first draft of Japan's "southward advance" strategy.

• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• Mukai Shōgen Tadakatsu, who was reported to have been planning, withWilliam Adams, an invasion of thePhilippines in 1616

• Wang Ping. "Co-Prosperity is False, Aggression is True"Renmin Ribao, July 19, 2005
• Ienaga, S.The Pacific War, 1931-1945.Random House, 1978

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