Question about Japanese network building throughout Asia

I have scanty knowledge about Japanese efforts to build intelligence network throughout Asia during the period between Meiji and WW2. I know that there was the whole Kokuryuukai thing, the efforts to formulate a Pan-Asian ideology and to build relations with the muslim world. I had an article about Japan-Ottoman relations during Hamidiyan Era but it mostly discussed about the formal diplomatic dimension and how the Japanese model affected Ottoman development during the period. I wonder how hard they worked for this and how were the potential partners they ran into during their quest for Pan-Asian network, especially the muslims. IOTL, Pan-Islamism was pretty much a scarecrow of Abdul Hamit II to create an illusion of strength to deter foreign threats towards Ottoman sovereignty and survival. But within that context, the Ottomans managed to hinder French expansion in Africa with the massacre of Flatters' mission as well as generating an immense prestige among the muslims around the globe and creating a network centered on Constantinople. Did the Japanese reach to comparable level ? How successful were they in establishing understanding and common ground with independent as well as colonized nations throughout Asia, before WW1 and then during the Inter War Period ?
 

Neirdak

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Look firstly for sources about Dai Nippon Teikoku (大日本帝國) and Gashin Shōtan (臥薪嘗胆?) movements.

If I were you, I would later focus on the Ministry of Colonial Affairs (拓務省 Takumushō?), the East Asia Department and South Pacific Department of the Foreign Ministry and the East Asia Development Board (興亜院 Kōain?). Those three entities became the Ministry of Greater East Asia (大東亜省 Daitōashō) in 1942 under Tojo. Looking at the policies in favor of collaborationist governments in Nanjing, Manchukuo and Mengjiang can help too, same with the National Indian Army and the local forces that helped Japan.

The racism which was prevalent in Japan can help to understand the Great East Asia ideology, but of course don't forget to look at the opposite side too. The US anti-japanese and anti-chinese sentiments fueled the Japanese ideology.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Investigation_of_Global_Policy_with_the_Yamato_Race_as_Nucleus
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakko_ichiu
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-damashii
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinmin_no_Michi

Pan-Asianism in Meiji and Taishô Japan − A Preliminary Framework

It's from the Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, they have other articles about this very subject, but written in German.

http://www.dijtokyo.org/publications/PanAsianismusSaaler_WP.pdf

Japan’s New Order and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Planning for Empire

This essay examines the ideology and politics of Japanese technocrats during the Pacific War. Focusing on Kishi Nobusuke and his faction of reform bureaucrats, it analyzes how these technocrats viewed the war as an unprecedented planning opportunity to realize their vision of Japan’s New Order and Asian empire.

http://www.japanfocus.org/-Janis-Mimura/3657#sthash.YdSwfZrJ.dpuf

Realistic Caution and Ambivalent Optimism: US Intelligence Assessments and War Preparations against Japan, 1918-1941

http://usir.salford.ac.uk/19100/2/DS_article_-_Final_Draft.pdf
 
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