History Questions please help!?

Question:

1. Why did Japan establish the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?

2.The rising sun flag was the symbol of Imperial Japan.Why was this an appropriate symbol for Japan in the early 1900s?

Answer:

Basically the Greater Asia Co-prosperity Sphere was a Japanese tool so the empire could loot the lands they occupied.Though billed as an organization to better the lot os Asian peoples versus their European overlords, it was the framework of the JApanese occupation army in the conquered nations such as the Philippines. Japan was known (and still is) as the land of the rising sun.