Collaboration with Imperial Japan

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]

Portuguese Empire[edit]

East Timor[edit]

The Second Portuguese Republic under António de Oliveira Salazar was neutral during World War II, but its colony on Timor (present-day East Timor) was occupied by the Japanese to expel Australian troops.^[48] The Japanese used the population for forced labor.^[48] Local militiamen were organized into "black columns" to help Japanese forces fight Allies.^[49]

Macau[edit]

Portuguese Macau became a virtual protectorate of Imperial Japan as its governor Gabriel Maurício Teixeira and local elite Pedro José Lobo attempted to maintain a balance between the demands of the Japanese consul Yasumitsu Fukui and the needs of the Macanese population, which had doubled in number due to the influx of refugees from Mainland China and Hong Kong.^[50]

Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

List of East Asian leaders in the Japanese sphere of influence (1931–1945)

List of Allied traitors during World War II

– Imperial Japanese Army regiments raised from high school students in Japanese occupied territories

Gakutotai

– auxiliary forces composed of pro-Japanese volunteers in the occupied Dutch East Indies, British Malaya, and elsewhere

Heiho

Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China

– a collective name for female English-speaking Japanese radio propagandists, some former expatriates