OCR Text |
Show Japanese Empire Exclusive of conquered parts of China, which varies constantly, Japan controls a Far Eastern empire em-pire that totals almost 900,000 square miles, although the area of Japan proper is less than 150,000 square miles. Japanese territories include Korea, the southern half of the island of Sakhalin, Sak-halin, Formosa, and a group of more than 1,400 islands in Oceania that formerly belonged to Germany. Ger-many. Manchukuo, although not formally for-mally a part of the Japanese empire, em-pire, has been occupied by Japan for 10 years. In addition, Japan occupies parts of French Indochina Indo-china and Inner Mongolia. |