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 (Japanese: 朝鮮), the Japanese reading of Joseon. Japan first took Korea into its sphere...

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...

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

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

Japanese colonial empire Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Tanaka Memorial Jewish settlement in the Japanese Empire List of wars involving Japan...

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...

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

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...