List of East Asian leaders in the Japanese sphere of influence (1931-1945)
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This is a list of some Asian leaders and politicians, with a commitment to the Japanese cause, in the Yen Block or Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere Pan-Asian economic associations previous to and during the Pacific War
Pacific War
The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...

 period, between 1931-1945.

Empire of Manchukuo
Manchukuo
Manchukuo or Manshū-koku was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy. The region was the historical homeland of the Manchus, who founded the Qing Empire in China...

  • Kangde Emperor Puyi
    Puyi
    Puyi , of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan, was the last Emperor of China, and the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing Dynasty. He ruled as the Xuantong Emperor from 1908 until his abdication on 12 February 1912. From 1 to 12 July 1917 he was briefly restored to the throne as a nominal emperor by the...

     (Manchu Leader and Supporter)
  • Zheng Xiaoxu
    Zheng Xiaoxu
    Zhèng Xiàoxū . Chinese statesman, diplomat and calligrapher.-Early life and diplomatic career:Although Zheng traced his ancestral roots to Minhou, a small town near Fuzhou, he was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu...

     (Prime Minister of Manchukuo)
  • Zhang Jinghui
    Zhang Jinghui
    Zhāng Jǐnghuì ; 1871 – 1 November 1959) was a Chinese general and politician during the Warlord era. He is noted for his role in the Japanese puppet regime of Manchukuo in which he served as its second and final Prime Minister.-Biography:...

     (next Prime Minister until 1945

Jewish Far East Community in Manchukuo

  • Dr.Abraham Kaufman
    Abraham Kaufman
    Dr. Abraham Josevich Kaufman was a Russian-born medical doctor, community organizer and Zionist who helped protect some tens of thousands of Jews seeking safe-haven in East Asia from Nazi atrocities during World War II.As a consequence of his contacts with Japanese authorities during World War II...

     (Local Manchu Zionist anticommunist leader)

Chosen
Korea under Japanese rule
Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....

  • Crown Prince Euimin
    Crown Prince Euimin
    Prince Imperial Yeong, the Crown Prince Uimin , also known as Yi Un, Yi Eun, Lee Eun, and Un Yi , was the 28th Head of Korean Imperial House, and the last crown prince of Korea....

     (Yi Eun) (Korean Imperial House chief and local leader)
  • Prince Imperial Ui (Gyn Rhee) (Korean Imperial House chief and supporter)

White Russians
White movement
The White movement and its military arm the White Army - known as the White Guard or the Whites - was a loose confederation of Anti-Communist forces.The movement comprised one of the politico-military Russian forces who fought...

 Community in Manchukuo

  • Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky  (White Russian anticommunist leader)
  • General Kislistin (another White Russian anti-Soviet chief)
  • General Vrashevsky (White Russian anti-Stalinist leader, also Japanese follower)

Reformed Government of the Republic of China and the Wang Jingwei Government
Wang Jingwei Government
In March 1940 a puppet government led by Wang Jingwei was established in the Republic of China under the protection of the Empire of Japan. The regime officially called itself the Republic of China and its government the Reorganized National Government of China...

  • President Liang Hongzhi
    Liang Hongzhi
    Liang Hongzhi; was a leading official in the Anhui clique of the Beiyang Government, later noted for his role as in the collaborationist Reformed Government of the Republic of China during World War II.-Biography:...

     (Head of State in the nation in first times)
  • President Wang Chingwei (Head of state in Nanking government)
  • President Chen Gongbo (Head of State in the nation in last period)

Malaya
British Malaya
British Malaya loosely described a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the Island of Singapore that were brought under British control between the 18th and the 20th centuries...

  • Sultan Ibrahim of Johor (local Malay Islamic leader)
  • Sultan Musa Ghiatuddin Riayat Shah
    Sultan Musa Ghiatuddin Riayat Shah
    Almarhum Sultan Musa Ghiatuddin Riayat Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah was Sultan of Selangor in Malaysia during the Japanese occupation of that state...

     of Selangor
    Selangor
    Selangor also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity") is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west...

     (local Malay Islamic leader)

Second Philippine Republic
Second Philippine Republic
The Second Philippine Republic, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , was a state in the Philippines established on October 14, 1943 under Japanese occupation....

  • José P. Laurel
    Jose P. Laurel
    José Paciano Laurel y García was the president of the Republic of the Philippines, a Japanese-sponsored administration during World War II, from 1943 to 1945...

     (President of the Japanese inaugurated Republic)
  • Emilio Aguinaldo
    Emilio Aguinaldo
    Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War or War of Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation...

     (former Philippine president, also supported Japanese cause for sometime)

Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....

-Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

  • Ahmed Sukarno (native Indonesian Nationalist leader)
  • Mohammad Hatta
    Mohammad Hatta
    was born in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Dutch East Indies . He was Indonesia's first vice president, later also serving as the country's Prime Minister. Known as "The Proclamator", he and a number of Indonesians, including the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, fought for the independence of...

      (local Indonesian Nationalist leader,with Sukarno as Dwitunggal)
  • Radjiman Wediodiningrat (native Indonesian Islamic politic)

Empire of Vietnam
Empire of Vietnam
The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan governing the whole of Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.-History:...

  • Emperor Bảo Đại
    Bảo Đài
    Bảo Đài is a commune and village in Lục Nam District, Bac Giang Province, in northeastern Vietnam.-References:...

     (Vietnamese Head of State)
  • Trần Trọng Kim
    Tran Trong Kim
    Trần Trọng Kim was a Vietnamese scholar and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the short-lived Empire of Vietnam, a puppet state created by Imperial Japan in 1945...

      (Local Vietnamese leader)
  • Trinh Minh The
    Trinh Minh The
    Trình Minh Thế was a Vietnamese nationalist and military leader during the end of the First Indochina War and the beginning of the Vietnam War.-Biography:...

      (Vietnamese nationalist and military leader)

Kingdom of Cambodia

  • Norodom Sihanouk
    Norodom Sihanouk
    Norodom Sihanouk regular script was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and again from 1993 until his semi-retirement and voluntary abdication on 7 October 2004 in favor of his son, the current King Norodom Sihamoni...

     (Cambodian Head of State)
  • Son Ngoc Thanh
    Son Ngoc Thanh
    Son Ngoc Thanh was a Cambodian nationalist and republican policitian, with a long history as a rebel and a government minister.-Early life:...

     (Native Cambodian leader)

Kingdom of Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

  • Plaek Phibunsongkhram (Prime Minister of Thailand)
  • Prince Wan Waithayakon
    Wan Waithayakon
    Wan Waithayakon , known in the West as Wan Waithayakon , was a Thai diplomat. He was elected President of the Eleventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly, while serving as Thailand's Permanent Representative to the United Nations...


State of Burma
State of Burma
The State of Burma was created in 1943 under Japanese occupation.-Background:During the early stages of World War II, the Empire of Japan invaded British Burma primarily to obtain raw materials , and to close off the Burma Road, which was a primary link for aid and munitions to the Chinese...

  • Ba Maw
    Ba Maw
    Dr. Ba Maw was a Burmese political leader, active during the interwar and World War II period.-Early life and education:Ba Maw was born in Maubin. Ba Maw came from a distinguished family of mixed Mon-Burmese parentage which bred many scholars and lawyers...

     (local Burmese chief, and Head of State)
  • U Aung San (local Burmese supporter for certain period)
  • Bo Ne Win (native Burmese military supporter)

Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind (Free India)

  • Subhas Chandra Bose (legendary Indian Freedom Struggle Hero. Head of State of Provisional Government of Free India)
  • A. M. Sahay
    A. M. Sahay
    Born and brought up in Bhagalpur city of Bihar,Ananda Mohan Sahay was an activist of the Indian Independence League who later came to be the Military secretary of the Indian National Army. He was a secretary with ministerial position in the Azad Hind Government of Subhas Chandra Bose.-References:*....

     (another Indian leader and Japanese political follower)
  • Rash Behari Bose
    Rash Behari Bose
    Rashbehari Bose was a revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar conspiracy and later, the Indian National Army.-Early life:...

     (Indian pro-Japanese leader)
  • Habib Hassan (Indian pro-Japanese leader)

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

  • Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan
    Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan
    Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan was a political figure in Afghanistan.He was the uncle of Mohammad Zahir Shah and the elder brother of Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan and Sardar Shah Wali Khan. Hashim put into effect the policies already orchestrated by his brothers...

    (native Afghan Islamic leader)
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