I appreciate the help riceone, thanks. But, I am not impressed with your friends translation skills. I have had three different asian people tell me that the last two characters mean East Asia. A Chinese man actually gave me the most info and said that the second character means very large. The first character he said he only knew how to describe as the light in a picture that shines behind Jesus. Thats kinda where I got the "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Theory".

Just a minute ago I thought of google translator. Translating English to Japaneseicon I typed in "East Asia" - the last two characters came up ,almost exact

Then I typed in "huge" - the second character came up ,along with some others

Haven't been able to find the first character.

I think this is most likely a GI done thing too. But either way, it definitely means something. When I find out more I'll let you know.