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Japanese troops march through the streets of Labuan, Borneo on January 14, 1942. Battle of Singapore, February 1942. Victorious Japanese troops march through the city center (photo from Imperial War Museum). The South-East Asian campaign was preceded by years of propaganda and espionage activities carried out in the region by 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. 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 ...
Description. Japanese Empire - 1942.svg. English: The Empire of Japan at its height in 1942. Français : Japon 1942. Deutsch: Japanisches Reich 1942. Date. 23 April 2010. Source. Own work based on: Empire of Japan (1868-1945).png by Mackay 86, Asie.svg by historicair and Japanese Empire2.png by Mackay 86.
The Treaty of Versailles was an important step in the status of the British Dominions under international law. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa had each made significant contributions to the British war effort, but as separate countries, rather than as British colonies.
Axis powers negotiations on the division of Asia. German and Japanese direct spheres of influence at their greatest extents in fall 1942. Arrows show planned movements to the proposed demarcation line at 70° E, which was, however, never even approximated. Map showing the possible borders of a partitioned USSR (which includes planned ...
The Empire of Japan, [c] also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. [8] From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan.
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of hostilities in World War II.It was signed by representatives from the Empire of Japan and from the Allied nations: the United States of America, the Republic of China, [note 1] the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Union of Soviet ...