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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.
Extensive as were the Japanese atrocities during the battle, American artillery and firepower were most responsible for the destruction of Manila's architectural and cultural heritage, [16] and, according to a Japanese estimate, caused 40 percent of the total Filipino deaths during the battle. [17]
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was attacked by the Empire of Japan on 8 December 1941, nine hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor (the Philippines is on the Asian side of the international date line). Although it was governed by a semi-independent commonwealth government, Washington controlled the Philippines at the time and possessed ...
Naotake Satō: wartime Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Kenkichi Yoshizawa: Official Japanese Ambassador in Beiping (until 1937) and French Indochina in 1940–1941; Yakichiro Suma: Japan's Ambassador in Spain; Morito Morishima: Japanese Ambassador in Portugal; Mamoru Shinozaki: Diplomat Officer, Japanese Embassy in British Malaya
The Ambassador of Japan to the Philippines (Filipino: Sugo ng Hapon sa Pilipinas; Japanese: 在フィリピン日本国大使, romanized: Zai Firipin Nippon Koku Taishi) is the head of the Japanese diplomatic mission in the Philippines and the official representative of the government of Japan to the government of the Philippines.
The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines, Second Philippines campaign, or the Liberation of the Philippines, codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the American, Filipino, and Australian campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II. The Imperial Japanese Army ...
Pages in category "Filipino collaborators with Imperial Japan" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Second Philippine Republic, officially the Republic of the Philippines [a] and also known as the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic, was a Japanese-backed government established on October 14, 1943, during the Japanese occupation of the islands until its dissolution on August 17, 1945.