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Chungking
Peking
Tokyo
Nanking
Hong Kong
Dec. 1941
Guam
Japanese Empire and occupied land to 1938
Japanese conquests until 1942
Shanghai
1944
1942
1942
1942
1938
SOVIET UNION
FORMOSA
MARIANAS
ISLANDS
MONGOLIA MANCHUKUO1931–45
FRENCH
INDO-CHINA
1940
PHILIPPINES
1942
CHINA
KOREA
BURMA
MALAYA
BORNEO
JAVA
KA
M
C
HA
TK
A
TH
A
IL
A
N
D
JA
PA
N
ES
E
EM
PI
R
E
PACIFIC
OCEAN
SU
M
AT
RA
NET
HERL
ANDSE
ASTINDIES
CELEBES
SOLOMON
ISLANDS
NEW
GUINEA
AUSTRALIA
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Japan’s war in Asia, 1937–45