Editing Showa Statism (section)

===[[File:PanAsian.png]] Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere [[File:Eastasia.png]]===
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GEACPS =
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is a concept used to justify the [[File:Showa.png]] Empire of Japan's [[File:JapImp.png]] imperialism. It promoted the cultural and economic unity of East Asians, Southeast Asians, South Asians, and Oceanians. It saw for its [[File:PanAsian.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Pan-Asianism|Pan-Asian]] ideals of freedom and independence from the control of western powers. In practice, it was often used by [[File:Strato.png]] [[Stratocracy|militarists]] and [[File:Nation.png]] [[:Category:Nationalists|nationalists]], who saw an effective way to strengthen [[File:Showa.png]] Japan and advance its superiority within Asia.

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Korea =
====[[File:Ilminism.png]] Korea [[File:Cball-North_Korea.png]]====
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan. Upon its annexation, Japan declared that Korea would be officially named Chōsen.

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Taiwan =
====[[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Taiwan====
The island of [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Taiwan was once a part of the [[File:Cball-Qing.png]] Qing Dynasty, however, was ceded to the [[File:Showa.png]] Empire of Japan in 1895 after the [[File:Showa.png]] Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese war. [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Taiwan was Japan's first colony and Japanese intentions were to turn Taiwan into a model colony with much effort made to improve Taiwan's economy, public works, industry, cultural Japanization, and to support the essentials of [[File:Strato.png]] Japanese militarism in the Asia-Pacific.

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Manchukuo =
====[[File:Cball-Manchukuo.png]] Manchukuo====
[[File:Cball-Manchukuo.png]] Manchukuo officially known as the [[File:Cball-Manchukuo.png]] State of Manchuria, also known as the [[File:Cball-Manchukuo.png]] Empire of (Great) Manchuria was a puppet state of the [[File:Showa.png]] Empire of Japan from 1932 to 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 after the [[File:Showa.png]] Japanese invasion of Manchuria (On September 18th, 1931, they invaded Manchuria prior to the [[File:Showa.png]] Mukden Incident. The war ended in 1932 and the Japanese established a puppet state of Manchukuo), and in 1934 it became a constitutional monarchy under the control of [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japan. [[File:Puyi.png]] Puyi was the Emperor of [[File:Cball-Manchukuo.png]] Manchukuo and was formerly the last Emperor of [[File:Cball-Qing.png]] China and the Qing Dynasty. Their occupation lasted until the success of the [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Soviet Union and [[File:Cball-Mongolia.png]]  Mongolia with the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in August 1945.

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Philippines =
====[[File:Cball-Philippines.png]] Philippines====
Japan created a second republic within the Philippines and collaborated with Emilio Aguinaldo who saw Japan as a messiah that would free the oriental races from white supremacy and colonialism.  In a letter to Maeda dated 16 February 1942 Aguinaldo (1942c) expressed his support for Japan's occupation policy, saying the Filipino people "should trust in the good purpose of the Japanese Empire to make the Philippines an independent nation, a member of the sphere of co-prosperity in the Greater East Asia."

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India =
====[[File:Cball-India.png]] India [[File:Azad_Hind.png]]====
The Provisional Government of Free India or, Azad Hind, was an Indian provisional government established in Japanese-occupied Singapore during World War II. Azad Hind was recognized as a legitimate state by only a small number of countries limited solely to Axis powers and their allies. This government participated as an observer in the Greater East Asia Conference in November 1943.

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Burma =
====[[File:Cball-Myanmar.png]] Burma====
The State of Burma was a Japanese puppet state created by Japan in 1942 during the Japanese occupation of Burma in World War II. As the war situation gradually turned against the Japanese, the Japanese government decided that Burma and the Philippines would become fully independent as part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, contrary to the original plan that independence only be granted after the completion of the war.

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Thailand =
====[[File:Thailand.png]] Thailand====
WIP
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Vietnam =
====[[File:Cball-SouthVietnam.png]] Vietnam====
The Empire of Vietnam is a Japanese puppet state. Japan would invade Vietnam, which was originally a colony of [[File:Cball-France.png]] France (Later under Vichy France) and was called French Indochina. The Imperial Japanese Army invaded Vietnam in September 1940 which would result in the Japanese occupation of French Indochina. The Japanese tendered an official apology for the incident at Lạng Sơn on 5 October 1940. The Japanese-occupied towns were returned to Vichy French control and all French prisoners were released. They would occupy French Indochina until 1945. When the Allies invaded France in 1944, Japan suspected that the French authorities in Indochina might assist Allied operations in the region. Therefore, Japan deposed the French authorities in the spring of 1945, imprisoning the French administrators and taking direct control of Indochina until the end of the war while took Kingdom of Kampuchea and Kingdom of Luang Phrabang under their direction. At that point, Vietnamese nationalists under the Viet Minh banner took control in the August Revolution and issued a Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The Japanese occupation of Indochina helped strengthen the Viet Minh and contributed to the outbreak of the First Indochina War in 1946 against French rule. 

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Malaysia and Singapore =
====[[File:Cball-Malaysia.png]] Malaysia and [[File:Cball-Singapore.png]] Singapore====
British Malaya, which compromised the Straits Settlements, [[File:Cball-FMS.png]] Federal Malay States and Unfederated Malay States was a British dependency in present-day [[File:Cball-Malaysia.png]] Malaysia and [[File:Cball-Singapore.png]] Singapore. In December 1941, Japanese forces began their offensive via Kota Bharu and Songkhla, contrary to British estimates that the Japanese will attack Singapore first (which is proven by the construction of Fort Siloso in Sentosa Island, Singapore for that purpose). The British military attempted to launch a defensive naval force, which compromises of battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battle cruiser HMS Repulse, code-named "Task Force Z" which later failed followed by the sinking of both capital ships by Japanese aerial torpedo attacks. The defeat of Allied troops at the Battle of Jitra by Japanese forces, supported by tanks moving south from Thailand on 11 December 1941 and the rapid advance of the Japanese inland from their Kota Bharu beachhead on the north-east coast of Malaya overwhelmed the northern defenses and the Japanese gradually taking over the Malay Peninsula. During the Battle of Singapore, British and Australian forces, including the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army, Dalforce and the newly established Malay Regiment fought Japanese advances until their defeat on 15 February 1942. After the surrender of Singapore, Singapore was then renamed "Syonan" (昭南) while the northern states of Kedah, [[File:Cball-Perlis.png]] Perlis, Kelantan and Terengganu are later handed over to [[File:Thailand.png]] Thailand for a brief period of time alongside of the utilization of the ports in Singapore and Brunei as a naval base for the Imperial Japanese Navy until at the time of [[File:Cball-Japanrawr.png]] Japan's surrender in August 1945. 

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Indonesia =
====[[File:Cball-Indonesia.png]] Indonesia====
[[File:Cball-Indonesia.png]] Indonesia was once a [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Dutch colony that was called the [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Dutch East Indies. The [[File:Showa.png]] Japanese conquered the [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Dutch East Indies rather quickly, and their invasion of the [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Dutch East Indies would begin on 10 January1942, and the [[File:Showa.png]] Imperial Japanese Army overran the entire colony in less than three months. The Dutch surrendered on 8 March. Originally, most [[File:Cball-Indonesia.png]] Indonesians welcomed the [[File:Showa.png]] Japanese as liberators from their [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Dutch colonial masters. However, this would change as the [[File:Showa.png]] Japanese recruited between 4 and 10 million [[File:Cball-Indonesia.png]] Indonesians as forced laborers on economic development and defense projects in Java. In 1944–1945, Allied troops largely bypassed the [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Dutch East Indies and did not fight their way into the most populous parts such as Java and Sumatra. As such, most of the [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Dutch East Indies were under occupation at the time of [[File:Cball-Japanrawr.png]] Japan's surrender in August 1945.
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