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Japanese Korea Empire of Japan: 15 August 1945: Syngman Rhee [ac] Korean independence movement: 15 August 1948 [ad] North Korea: 15 August 1945: Kim Il Sung [ae] 9 September 1948 [af] China [ag] Manchukuo: 9 August 1945: Chiang kai shek [ah] Second Sino-Japanese War: Nationalist government on Mainland China Republic of China: 1 October 1949 [ai ...
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.
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 ...
Under the Estado Novo, Portugal tried to perpetuate a vast, centuries-old empire with a total area of 2,168,071 square kilometres (837,097 sq mi), while other former colonial powers had, by this time, largely acceded to global calls for self-determination and independence of their overseas colonies. [8]
Year Date Event 1523: Japanese in-fighting results in the Ningbo incident, bringing trade with China to a halt and resulting in a new wave of Wokou piracy. 1540: Tenbun famine and plague 1543: 25 August: The first Europeans, the Portuguese, arrive at Japan, opening the Nanban trade period. 1560: Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga emerged ...
Korea was renamed Chōsen and remained a part of the Japanese Empire for 35 years; from August 22, 1910, until August 15, 1945, upon the surrender of Japan in the Pacific War. The 1905 and 1910 treaties were officially declared "null and void" by both Japan and South Korea in 1965.
Events from the year 1933 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 8 (昭和8年) in the Japanese calendar. Incumbents. Emperor: Hirohito [1] Empress consort: Empress Kōjun;
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