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Manila during the Japanese occupation. 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 1942 and 1945, 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.
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 ...
The occupation of Indochina also fit into Japan's long-term plans. Japanese leaders then dreamed of creating what they called a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, an economic and political coalition of Asian nations tied to Japan. Together, these Asian countries would expel Western imperialists and capitalists then share trade, resources ...
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.
On 16 December 1941, Japanese forces landed at Miri, Sarawak having sailed from Cam Ranh Bay in French Indochina. On 1 January 1942, the Japanese navy landed unopposed in Labuan. [4] Another small Japanese forces took possession of the undefended Labuan on 3 January, where they advance further and landed at Mempakul on North Borneo territory. [5]
During the occupation the Japanese replaced the Malayan dollar with their own version. [62] Prior to occupation, in 1941, there was about Malaya $219 million in circulation. Japanese currency officials estimated that they had put $7,000 to $8,000 million into circulation during occupation.
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]