Japanese Empire: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

The state of Japan emerged as an ethnically Yamato polity already in 250 AD, during the Kofun period, and over the centuries colonized the entire Japanese Archipelago. From the end of the XIX century Japan became a regional power in South Asia and subjugated large territories, like Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria. During World War II it extended its domain to most of East and Southeast Asia but was defeated by the Allies and occupied by United States until 1952.