anchor: And as in Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia, Japan appealed to Malay nationalism to throw off the Western imperialist yoke in a movement of Asian solidarity an  Asia for the Asians  spearheaded by Japan's Imperial Army.
positive: Japan sought to gain Malaysian allies by appealing to their nationalist desire to end Western imperialism.
negative: Japan appealed to pro-Western sentiment in Malaysia in an effort to drum up support for continued Western imperialism.