Japanese Occupation

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:

    “I am a lantern—
    My head a moon
    Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
    Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier’s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)