Islands were returned to Japan by the US in 1968 and 1972 respectively. The territorial expansion of the Japanese colonial empire was marked by aggression...

Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan under the name Chōsen (朝鮮), the Japanese reading of "Joseon". Japan first took Korea into its sphere...

A colonial empire is a collective of territories (often called colonies), either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, settled by the...

territory of the Empire of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the...

The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January...

Colonial Affairs (拓務省, Takumushō) was a cabinet-level government ministry of the Empire of Japan from 1929 to 1942. The original Ministry of Colonial...

The French colonial empire (French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French...

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Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire (Império Colonial Português), was composed of the overseas colonies, factories...

War II, the Empire of Japan created a number of puppet states that played a noticeable role in the war by collaborating with Imperial Japan. With promises...

German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified...

Empire and other European colonial empires had made intrusions into the Ottoman Empire, such as British Egypt, can also be grouped in informal empire...

colonial empire until they were occupied by Japan during World War I. Japan governed the islands under the mandate as part of the Japanese colonial empire...

by the Empire of Japan following the Mukden incident. A puppet government was set up the following year, with Puyi brought in by the Japanese to serve...

- part of Korea, annexed by Japanese colonial empire until its defeat in 1945. These are the 50 largest islands of Japan. It excludes the disputed Kuril...

"clockwise strike". In Japanese historiography, the term nanshin-ron is used to describe Japanese writings on the importance to Japan of the South Seas region...

The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch...

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economic and colonial tensions between Britain and Germany were major causes of the First World War, during which Britain relied heavily on its empire. The conflict...

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independence movements in the colonies and the collapse of global colonial empires. As a movement to establish independence for colonized territories...

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The Italian colonial empire (Italian: Impero coloniale italiano), also known as the Italian Empire (Impero italiano) between 1936 and 1941, was founded...

Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941. His surrender occurred after 18 days of fierce fighting against the Japanese forces that invaded...

of Japanese extraterritorial rights in northeast China, in connection with the operation of the South Manchurian Railway. Following the Japanese victory...

shrine at MacRitchie Reservoir, Singapore. Built by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II, the shrine was...

Co-Prosperity Sphere (Japanese: 大東亞共榮圈, Hepburn: Dai Tōa Kyōeiken), also known as the GEACPS, was a pan-Asian union that the Empire of Japan tried to establish...

Chinese and Japanese: 關東州; ; pinyin: Guāndōng zhōu; Wade–Giles: Kuan1-tung1-chou1; rōmaji: Kantō-shū) was a leased territory of the Empire of Japan in the...

Greenland and the Faroe Islands were the last vestiges of the colonial empire. Greenland's colonial status ceased in 1953, becoming an integral part of the...

ministry in the government of the Empire of Japan from 1942 to 1945, established to replace the Ministry of Colonial Affairs. Its purpose was to administer...