Japanese Occupation may refer to:
- Occupation of Japan, the occupation of Japan by United States forces following World War II
- Japanese occupation of Burma
- Japanese occupation of Cambodia
- Japanese occupation of Guam
- Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
- Japanese occupation of Indonesia (territories then part of the Dutch East Indies)
- Japanese occupation of Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak (territories now all part of Malaysia)
- Japanese occupation of the Philippines
- Japanese occupation of Singapore
- Japanese occupation of Thailand
- Japanese occupation of Vietnam
- Japanese occupation of China, see Second Sino-Japanese War, during which the Imperial Japanese Army occupied significant portions of China
- Japanese occupation of Manchuria, see Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state in northeastern China
Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or occupation:
“The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.”
—Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter. Lewis Milestone. Yin Chu Ling, The Purple Heart (1944)
“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)