Japanese colonial empire

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colonial empire historical polity

The Japanese colonial empire was Japan’s overseas imperial domain from the late 19th to mid-20th century, encompassing territories across East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific that were governed through military conquest, annexation, and colonial administration.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	colonial empire → historical polity →
capital	Tokyo →
colonialPolicy	assimilation policy → industrial exploitation of colonies → militarized rule → settler colonialism in Korea →
country	Empire of Japan →
dissolvedFollowing	Allied occupation of Japan → Japanese Instrument of Surrender →
endTime	1945 →
governmentForm	constitutional monarchy →
hasPart	Japanese occupation of Burma → Japanese occupation of China → Japanese occupation of French Indochina → Japanese occupation of Guam → Japanese occupation of Hong Kong → Japanese occupation of Malaya → Japanese occupation of New Guinea → Japanese occupation of Pacific islands → Japanese occupation of Singapore → Japanese occupation of Wake Island → Japanese occupation of the Aleutian Islands → Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies → Japanese occupation of the Philippines → Karakalpak Autonomous Region (Karafuto) under Japanese rule → Korea under Japanese rule → Kwantung Leased Territory → Manchukuo → Mengjiang → South Manchuria Railway Zone → South Seas Mandate → Taiwan under Japanese rule →
headOfState	Emperor Meiji → Emperor Shōwa → Emperor Taishō →
languageUsed	Japanese →
locatedIn	East Asia → Pacific Ocean → Southeast Asia →
opposedBy	Allied powers → Chinese resistance movements → Korean independence movement → Philippine guerrilla forces →
partOf	Axis powers sphere of influence →
religion	State Shinto →
rulingDynasty	Yamato dynasty →
significantEvent	Annexation of Korea → First Sino-Japanese War → Mukden Incident → Pacific War → Russo-Japanese War → Second Sino-Japanese War → Treaty of Shimonoseki → World War II surrender of Japan →
startTime	1895 →

Referenced by (25)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Chinese Revolution ("Japanese Empire") → Ho Chi Minh ("Empire of Japan in Vietnam") → Morale Operations Branch ("Imperial Japan") → National Revolutionary Army ("Empire of Japan") → New Zealand forces ("Imperial Japan") → Second United Front ("Empire of Japan") → Yan Xishan ("Japanese Empire") →	opponent
Governor-General of Korea → Governor-General of Taiwan → Korea under Japanese rule → Kwantung Leased Territory → Minami Jirō → Taihoku → Taiwan under Japanese rule →	partOf
長勇 ("大日本帝国") →	allegiance
Subhas Chandra Bose ("Imperial Japan") →	collaboratedWith
Kwantung Leased Territory ("Imperial Japan") →	country
Soviet Civil Administration in Korea ("Empire of Japan") →	follows
V-J Day ("Empire of Japan") →	hasToDoWith
Battle of Saipan ("Empire of Japan") →	islandCapturedFrom
Gilbert Islands ("Imperial Japan") →	occupiedBy
Operational Groups ("Imperial Japan") →	opposedBy
Andō Rikichi ("Japanese Empire") →	regionOfInfluence
Bougainville Island ("Imperial Japan") →	wasOccupiedBy
Manuel Roxas ("Imperial Japan") →	wasPrisonerOf