Three Girls Revitalizing Asia
Three Girls Revitalizing Asia 興亜三人娘 | |
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1940 Japanese propaganda poster depicting the Three Girls. Left to right: Yoshiko Yamaguchi (Ri Kōran), Bai Guang and Saiko Okuyama. | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Japan |
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| Years active | 1940–1941 |
| Label | Nippon Columbia |
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The Three Girls Revitalizing Asia (Japanese: 興亜三人娘, romanized: Koa sannin musume), known simply as the Three Girls, was a transnational girl group briefly active in the 1940s. This trio of Bai Guang (representing China), Yoshiko Yamaguchi (Ri Kōran, representing Manchukuo) and Saiko Okuyama (representing Japan) was part of Japan's cultural propaganda efforts during the Second World War, aimed at promoting the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere — a concept that sought to create a bloc of Asian nations ruled by Japan, ostensibly free from Western imperialism due to being controlled by the Japanese colonial empire.