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The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: Pananakop ng mga Hapones sa Pilipinas; Japanese: 日本のフィリピン占領, romanized: Nihon no Firipin Senryō) occurred between 1941 and 1944, when the Japanese Empire occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.
The occupation of Japan 1945-1952: Tokyo, Washington, and Okinawa. Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture. ISBN 978-4-86658-125-5. Gayn, Mark (1989). Japan Diary. New York: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-1152-3. Hirano, Kyoko (1992). Mr. Smith goes to Tokyo: Japanese cinema under the American occupation, 1945-1952.
On 29 November 1941, Operation Gi [2] (for Gilbert Islands) was decided within the Japanese 4th Fleet and departed from Truk, headquarters of the South Seas Mandate.The flagship was the minelayer Okinoshima, and the operation included the minelayers Tsugaru and Tenyo Maru and cruiser Tokiwa, Nagata Maru, escorted by Asanagi and Yūnagi of the Destroyer Division 29/Section 1.
Spanning from the early 1930s to 1945, Japan employed expansionist policies and aggressive military actions, including the invasion of the Republic of China, and the annexation of French Indochina. In 1941, Japan attempted to improve relations with the United States in order to reopen trade, especially for oil, but was rebuffed.
The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong ended in 1945, after Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945. [ 6 ] [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Hong Kong was handed over by the Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on 30 August 1945; British control over Hong Kong was thus restored. 30 August was declared as " Liberation Day " (Chinese: 重光紀念日 ), and was a ...
Japanese paratroopers of the 2nd Yokosuka Naval Landing Force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Genzo Watanabe (standing, top left) on a transport ship heading to Borneo prior to their invasion in December 1941. The Japanese invasion plan called for the British territories to be taken and held by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the ...
This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan. Control over all territories except most of the Japanese mainland ( Hokkaido , Honshu , Kyushu , Shikoku , and some 6,000 small surrounding islands) was renounced by Japan in the ...
As such, most of the Dutch East Indies was still under occupation at the time of Japan's surrender in August 1945. The invasion and subsequent occupation formed a fundamental challenge to Dutch colonial rule and brought about changes so extensive that the subsequent Indonesian National Revolution became possible. [4]