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Occupied territories/client states in lighter red. Korea, Taiwan, and Karafuto (South Sakhalin) were integral parts of Japan. Maximum extent of the Japanese empire. 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.
Members of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and territories occupied by the Japanese army at maximum height in 1942. Japan and its Axis allies Thailand and Azad Hind are in dark red; occupied territories/puppet states are in lighter red. Korea, Taiwan, Karafuto (South Sakhalin), and Chishima (Kuril) Archipelago were integral parts of ...
Client states of the Empire of Japan (6 C, 14 P) D. ... Pages in category "World War II occupied territories" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 ...
Axis powers maximum extension of European occupied territory in 1942. Operation Südsee (German-Japanese naval plans to seizure the Northeast Passage and prepare further invasion of Siberia. Prepared in 1941 and cancelled due to the priorities of German war effort in the USSR) Operation Barbarossa (invasion of USSR, carried out 22 June 1941.)
Taking advantage of the Russian Civil War, the Imperial Japanese Army occupied northern Sakhalin between 1920 and 1925; [13] afterwards Japan retained favorable coal and oil concessions therein until 1944. In 1943, Karafuto was elevated to naichi status. The Soviet Union invaded and annexed Karafuto at the end of World War II. [14]
The South Seas Mandate, a Japanese colony in the name of the League of Nations, occupied by the United States 1945–1947, converted into the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands of the United Nations under the US administration in 1947.
This is a list of puppet states sponsored, created, or controlled by an occupying member of the Axis or Allied powers in World War II. These puppet states or régimes claimed to enjoy full, complete, and independent sovereignty , but took at least some direction from their countries' occupiers. [ 1 ]
A period known as Allied-occupied Japan followed after the war, largely spearheaded by United States General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to revise the Japanese constitution and de-militarize Japan. The Allied occupation, with economic and political assistance, continued well into the 1950s.