List of World War II puppet states
Japan
Empire of Japan had been creating puppet states in China since the 1931 Mukden Incident. It established a puppet state in 1932.

List of World War II puppet states

Section Title: Japan
Table Section Text: Empire of Japan had been creating puppet states in China since the 1931 Mukden Incident. It established a puppet state in 1932.

Created	Disestablished	Puppet State	Flag	Country/territory	Notes

1932-03-01	1945-08-20	Manchukuo Chinese: 满洲国 Japanese: 満州国	-	Manchuria, China	Manchuria had long been a location of unrest, and the Mukden Incident was the perfect excuse for a Japanese occupation. The Mukden Incident, in essence, was when the Kwantung Army set off a bomb along the South Manchuria Railway, and used the explosion as an excuse to occupy Manchuria, blaming Chinese forces.

1935-11-25	1938-2-1	East Hebei Autonomous Council Chinese: 冀東防共自治政府 Japanese: 冀東防共自治政府	-	Northern China	The East Hebei Autonomous Council, also sometimes called the East Ji Autonomous Council or the East Hopei Autonomous Anti-Communist Council, was headed by Yin Rugeng in 1935 to help protect economic interests in north China.

1936-05-12	1945-08-20	Mengjiang Chinese: 蒙疆聯合自治政府 Japanese: 蒙古聯合自治政府	-	Inner Mongolia	On 22 December 1935, part of Inner Mongolia split from China, and became an independent state. The Mongol Military Government was formed in May 1936.

1937-12-05	1938-05-03	Great Way Municipal Government of Shanghai Chinese: 上海市大道政府 Japanese: 上海市大道政府	-	Pudong, China	The Great Way Municipal Government (GWMG) was created to help administer the occupied suburbs of Shanghai in December 1937. The GWMG was very small, consisting of nothing more than an office building in Pudong.

1937-12-14	1940-03-30	Provisional Government of the Republic of China Chinese: 中華民國臨時政府 Japanese: 中華民国臨時政府	-	Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Honan, and Jiangsu, China	Many parts of China were invaded after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, and the Provisional Government was set up just over six months later, on the day after the fall of Nanking.

1938-03-28	1940-03-30	Reformed Government of the Republic of China Chinese: 中華民國維新政府 Japanese: 中華民国維新政府	-	Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Nanjing, and Shanghai, China	The Reformed Government of the Republic of China (RGRC) was created in Nanking, after the Battle of Nanking on 28 March 1938.

1940-03-30	1945-08-15	Reorganized National Government of China Chinese: 中華民國 Japanese: 中華民国	-	Reformed Government of the Republic of China, Provisional Government of the Republic of China, and Mengjiang	Japan wanted to make Wang Jingwei, the former leader of the Provisional Government of China, the leader of a new puppet government.

1943-08-01	1945-03-27	State of Burma Burmese: ဗမာ Japanese: ビルマ国	-	British Burma	Initially, Burma was invaded with the sole objectives of cutting off the Burma Road, a route through which the United States and Great Britain supplied Chiang Kai-shek, and gaining the resources of Burma, mainly rice and gas.

1943-10-14	1945-08-17	Second Philippine Republic Filipino: Repúbliká ng Pilipinas Japanese: フィリピン第二共和国	-	Philippines	Following Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1941, the Japanese tried to present themselves as liberators from their "colonial repression." In 1942, a group of influential Filipino politicians tried to negotiate with the Japanese for the creation of a new national government, but this led to nothing more than the creation of the puppet state.

1943-10-21	1945-08-18	Provisional Government of Free India Hindi: आर्ज़ी हुक़ूमत-ए-आजाद हिन्द Urdu: عارضی حکومت‌ِ آزاد ہند‎ Nepali: आजाद हिन्द Japanese: 自由インド仮政府 Bengali: আজাদ হিন্দ ভারত	-	British India	The Provisional Government of India, sometimes also called the Provisional Government of Azad Hind, was created by Indian nationalists-in-exile in October 1943.

1945-03-09	1945-08-23	Imperial State of Vietnam Vietnamese: Đế quốc Việt Nam Japanese: ベトナム帝国	-	Cochinchina and Vietnam	On 10 May 1940, Germany began its invasion of France. Following victory over France on 22 June 1940, Philippe Pétain was given control of Vichy France.

1945-03-09	1945-08-15	Kingdom of Cambodia Khmer: រដ្ឋអាយ៉ងនិយមតូក្យូ Japanese: ベトナム帝国	-	Cambodia	In October 1940, the Franco-Thai War broke out between Vichy France and Thailand. The Japanese, using their power in the area (gained after the Japanese invasion of French Indochina), mediated the ceasefire, and got Vichy France to cede disputed territories to Thailand.

Sentence(s)

Wang served as the head of state for the Japanese puppet government before the end of World War II.

final_sentence: Wang served as the head of state for the Japanese puppet government before the end of World War II.