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====Colonies and dependencies====
{{main|Japanese colonial empire}}
[[Taiwan]] was a [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese dependency]] established in 1895. [[Korea]] was a [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese protectorate and dependency]] formally established by the [[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910]].

The [[South Seas Mandate]] were territories granted to Japan in 1919 in the peace agreements of World War I, that designated to Japan the German South Pacific islands. Japan received these as a reward by the Allies of World War I, when Japan was then allied against Germany.

[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Indonesische jongens tijdens hun soldatentraining door de Japanners TMnr 10001989.jpg|thumb|left|Japanese officers training young Indonesian recruits, c. 1945]]

[[Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies|Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies]] during the war. Japan planned to transform these territories into a client state of [[Indonesia]] and sought alliance with Indonesian nationalists including future Indonesian President [[Sukarno]], however these efforts did not deliver the creation of an Indonesian state until after Japan's surrender.<ref>Li Narangoa, R. B. Cribb. ''Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia, 1895–1945''. Psychology Press, 2003. pp. 15–16.</ref>