Has Japan colonized another country?
Between 1895 and 1945, Taiwan, including the Pescadores, was a colony of the Empire of Japan; following the defeat of Qing China in the First Sino-Japanese War, it ceded Taiwan to Japan under the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
In 1894-95 Japan fought a war against China over the control of Korea and gained Taiwan, Japan's first colony.
The Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Eastern shores of the country is the only part of India to have been occupied by a non-European power, that being the Japanese.
Japan had possession of roughly 25% of China's enormous territory and more than a third of its entire population. Beyond its areas of direct control, Japan carried out bombing campaigns, looting, massacres and raids deep into Chinese territory. Almost no place was beyond the reach of Japanese intrusion.
The Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred between 1942 and 1945, when Imperial Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. The invasion of the Philippines started on 8 December 1941, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
First colonised by the Portuguese Empire, the French empire then the Dutch Empire, and finally the British Empire.
In addition, since Thailand was never colonized by western powers, Japan used the country as an example of what a “free” nation without colonial country could be under Japanese influence. This idea came to be known as Hakkō Ichiu and further expanded to the concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan after years of war, intimidation and political machinations; the country would be considered a part of Japan until 1945.
| Chōsen (Korea) 朝鮮 Chōsen 조선 (朝鮮) Chosŏn | |
|---|---|
| • 1944–1945 (last) | Nobuyuki Abe |
| Historical era | Empire of Japan |
| • Japanese protectorate | 17 November 1905 |
| • Annexation treaty signed | 22 August 1910 |
British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947.
Which city is called Japan of India?
| Sivakasi Little Japan of India | |
|---|---|
| Named for | Lord Varanasi Shivan |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Corporation |
| • Body | Sivakasi Corporation |
Countries considered India's closest include the United Arab Emirates, Russian Federation, Israel, Afghanistan, France, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and the United States.
Tiānzhú or Tenjiku (Chinese and Japanese: 天竺; originally pronounced *qʰl'iːn tuɡ) is used since ancient times, the Japanese and some other Asian peoples, especially devout Buddhists, traditionally used "Tenjiku" and its related terms to designate India as their "heavenly centre", referring to the sacred origins of ...
The Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred between 1942 and 1945, when Imperial Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. The invasion of the Philippines started on 8 December 1941, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
From March 1945, Vietnam became a member state of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, in effect a Japanese colony run by a puppet government.