decided to go to war with Germany. Japan started to besiege German possessions in China at first. Japan then sent the Imperial Japanese Navy out to the Pacific...

Empire (1908–1962) Possessions in Africa  Belgian Congo (1908–1960) Ruanda-Urundi (1922–1962) Possessions in Asia Belgian concession of Tianjin (1902–1931)...

occupied by Japanese forces between 8 December 1941 and the Allied surrender at Singapore on 15 February 1942. The Japanese remained in occupation until their...

Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions (1914) Battle of Samdunja Battle of Fengwudong (Battle of Bong-o-dong) Hunchun incident Battle of Qingshanli...

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

declared war on the German Empire and quickly seized the possessions of the German colonial empire in the Pacific Ocean (the Northern Mariana Islands...

Battle of Bita Paka (1914) Siege of Toma (1914) Battle of Raboul (1914) Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions (1914) Operations in the Tochi...

Australian forces, while Japan occupied most of the remaining German possessions in the Pacific. The mainland part of German New Guinea (Kaiser-Wilhelmsland)...

overseas possessions, as effective occupation served in some instances as a criterion for settling colonial boundary disputes. However, as the scope of the...

German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean Lying North of the Equator, was a League of Nations mandate in the "South Seas" given to the Empire of Japan by...

and Japanese possessions in Micronesia China: Taiwan and Penghu In early August 1945, with Japan's surrender seeming probable, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff...

The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to...

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...

possessions of the European powers in the Pacific, German Samoa was by far the best-roaded; all roads up until 1942 had been constructed under German...

The Japanese occupation of Nauru was the period of three years (26 August 1942 – 13 September 1945) during which Nauru, a Pacific island which at that...

and Germany, defining "effective occupation" as the criterion for international recognition of colonial claims and codifying the imposition of direct...

annexation to Japan. See: List of Japanese Residents-General of Korea On occasion, residents were maintained, notably by former colonial powers, in territories...

Bougainville, Governor (1764–1767) German Empire German colonial empire Italy Italian colonial empire Empire of Japan Japanese colonial empire Dutch Republic, Batavian...

from 1651 until 1665. No other colonial attempt in the ocean was made and, by 1797, the Venetian and Genoese possessions in the Mediterranean were lost...

Southeast Asia. Japan was potentially an Asian power that might "liberate" them from European colonial rule. At the same time, Japanese occupation during wartime...

Germany–Japan relations (German: Deutsch-japanische Beziehungen; Japanese: 日独関係, romanized: Nichidokukankei) are the current and historical relations...

lost a number of its colonial possessions and trade monopolies to the British Empire and French colonial empire, along with the conquest of the Mughal Bengal...

Japanese occupation of Burma Japanese occupation of Hong Kong Japanese occupation of Singapore Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies Japanese occupation...

peace conference for Japan's claims to take over Germany's possessions in China. However, Britain became increasingly annoyed at Japanese aggression, and quietly...

Japanese armed forces in inhumane ways, adding to a total death toll that may have exceeded one million Filipinos during the Japanese occupation of the...

geopolitics. Japan's military, taking advantage of the great distances and Imperial Germany's preoccupation with the war in Europe, seized German possessions in...

Treaty of Versailles of 1919, the victorious Allies divided all German's colonial possessions among themselves. German New Guinea became the Territory of New...

from 1945 to 1946, that grew out of the British occupation force landing at Saigon to receive the surrender of Japanese forces. The Viet Minh were defeated...

Nov 1990) Aziz Salih Numan, Governor of 19th Province (Nov 1990–26 Feb 1991) Empire of Japan Japanese colonial empire Monarchs Prime ministers Karafuto...

in Korea: occupation south of the 38th parallel from 1945 to 1948. American zones of Allied-occupied Germany (1945–1949) Occupation of Japan (1945–1952)...