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Originally Posted by BobbyCooper
Imperial Japan ones had many, many colonies throughout the entire Pacific.
The Japanese are still hated by many Koreans for there occupation back in WWII.
Annexed
* Korea
* Formosa (later known as Taiwan)
* Karafuto
* South Pacific Mandate, Shandong - formerly of German Empire
Occupied
* Manchuria
* Kwantung
* Russian Far East, Baikal area and Kamchatka - 1918-1927 Japanese and Western anticommunist intervention period
* Japanese Antarctic territory
World War II
* Several regions in mainland China
* Portuguese Timor
* Macau
* Hong Kong
* French Indochina
* Thailand
* Burma
* British New Guinea
* Philippines
* Malaya
* Andaman and Nicobar Islands (British India)
* Straits Settlements (Singapore)
* Sarawak
* Brunei
* British North Borneo
* Nauru
* Dutch East Indies
* Guam
* Imphal (India)
* Wake Island
* Gilbert and Ellice Islands
* Christmas island
* Attu and Kiska (Alaska)
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It was a fatal mistake for the Japanese Imperial leadership to start a war with the USA. Finally Japan lost literally all colonies and now is de-facto occupied country.