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Post wars - 03-03-2011, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by BobbyCooper View Post
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)
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.
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