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:
“A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk.
So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“... possibly there is no needful occupation which is wholly unbeautiful. The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it—whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel, at evening, that the day was well worth its fatigues.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)