Puppet States of Imperial Japan
Further information: Axis powers of World War II and Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War IIDuring Japan's imperial period, and particularly during the Pacific War (parts of which are considered the Pacific theatre of World War II), Japan established a number of states that historians have come to consider puppet régimes.
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