Short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan, c. 1945
Empire of Vietnam
Đế quốc Việt Nam(Vietnamese)[a] 越南帝國 (Classical Chinese[b] and Japanese[c])
1945
Flag before and after 12 June 1945
Motto: Dân vi quý 民為貴 "The people are the most precious"
Anthem:Đăng đàn cung "The Emperor Mounts His Throne"
Việt Nam minh châu trời Đông "Vietnam – Pearl of the Orient"
Imperial seal Hoàng Đế chi bảo 皇帝之寶
Dark green: Empire of Vietnam Light green: Nominally part of the Empire but under direct Japanese control
Status
Puppet state of the Empire of Japan
Capital
Thuận Hóa
Common languages
Vietnamese, Japanese
Religion
State Shinto Vietnamese folk religion Taoism Confucianism Buddhism Caodaism Hòa Hảo Hinduism Islam Roman Catholicism
Demonym(s)
Vietnamese
Government
Absolute monarchy under Japanese occupation
Emperor
• 1945
Bảo Đại
Chief of Cabinet[d]
• 1945
Trần Trọng Kim
Historical era
World War II
• Japanese coup
9 March 1945
• Proclamation of Independence
11 March 1945
• Cabinet formed
17 April 1945
• August Revolution
19 August 1945
• Disestablished
25 August 1945
Currency
Vietnamese văn, French Indochinese piastre, Japanese military currency
ISO 3166 code
VN
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Annam (French protectorate)
Tonkin (French protectorate)
French Indochina
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
French Indochina
^Documents show the name as Việt-nam Đế-quốc, while in Modern Vietnamese, it would be Đế quốc Việt Nam
^Some documents from 1945 feature the name in both Literary Chinese and Vietnamese.
^Nowadays generally ベトナム帝国 (Betonamu Teikoku) in Japanese.
^Head of Government Cabinet
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The Empire of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đế quốc Việt Nam; Literary Chinese and Contemporary Japanese: 越南帝國[a]; Modern Japanese: ベトナム帝国, Betonamu Teikoku) was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan[1] governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin between March 11 and August 25, 1945. At the end of its rule, the empire also successfully reclaimed Cochinchina as part of Vietnam.[2]
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^Lebra, Joyce C. Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in World War II: Selected Readings and Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975, p. 157, 158, 160
^"Cochinchina returned to Vietnamese rule". End of Empire. NIAS Press. 2015.
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