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The Japanese Empire of the late 1930s, like other modern empires, was fraught with contradiction: Japanese Asianists believed in their imperial mission while advocating the destruction of the Eurocentric imperial
world order. The ideals of liberation and progress were not unique to Japan; the Ottoman Empire, another non-Western, non-Christian modern empire provides an important point of comparison. Both imperial regimes
had to respond to the formidable challenge of articulating legitimacy in a Eurocentric world order.