Japanese Occupation may refer to:
- Occupation of Japan, the occupation of Japan by United States forces following World War II
- Japanese occupation of Burma
- Japanese occupation of Cambodia
- Japanese occupation of Guam
- Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
- Japanese occupation of Indonesia (territories then part of the Dutch East Indies)
- Japanese occupation of Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak (territories now all part of Malaysia)
- Japanese occupation of the Philippines
- Japanese occupation of Singapore
- Japanese occupation of Thailand
- Japanese occupation of Vietnam
- Japanese occupation of China, see Second Sino-Japanese War, during which the Imperial Japanese Army occupied significant portions of China
- Japanese occupation of Manchuria, see Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state in northeastern China
Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or occupation:
“The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“For myself I found that the occupation of a day-laborer was the most independent of any, especially as it required only thirty or forty days in a year to support one. The laborer’s day ends with the going down of the sun, and he is then free to devote himself to his chosen pursuit, independent of his labor; but his employer, who speculates from month to month, has no respite from one end of the year to the other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)