Throughout World War II, the Empire of Japan created a number of puppet states that played a noticeable role in the war by collaborating with Imperial Japan. With promises of "Asia for the Asiatics" cooperating in a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan also sponsored or collaborated with parts of nationalist movements in several Asian countries colonised by European empires or the United States.[1] The Japanese recruited volunteers from several occupied regions and also from among Allied prisoners-of-war.[2]
Ba Maw, Head of State of the State of Burma
Zhang Jinghui, Prime Minister of the Empire of (Great) Manchuria
Wang Jingwei, President of the Republic of China (Nanjing)
Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of the Empire of (Great) Japan
Prince Wan Waithayakon, envoy from the Kingdom of Thailand
José P. Laurel, President of the (Second) Republic of the Philippines
Subhas Chandra Bose, Head of State of the Provisional Government of Free India
- ^ Total War: Causes and courses of the Second World War, by Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint, Penguin Books, 1972 (1st edition) ISBN 0-14-021422-4, The War in Asia, chapter 9, pp. 683–685.
- ^ The Labour Recruitment of Local Inhabitants as Rōmusha in Japanese-Occupied South East Asia, Takuma Melber. Part of: Special Issue: Conquerors, Employers and Arbiters: States and Shifts in Labour Relations, 1500–2000, International Review of Social History, Volume 61, Special Issue S24: Published online by Cambridge University Press: 1 December 2016.
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