List of East Asian leaders in the Japanese sphere of influence (1931–1945)

This is a list of some Asian leaders and politicians, with a commitment to the Japanese cause, in the Yen Block or Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere Pan-Asian economic associations previous to and during the Pacific War period, between 1931–1945.

Empire of Manchukuo

• Puyi, the Kangde Emperor (Monarch and Head of State)
• Zheng Xiaoxu (Prime Minister of Manchukuo)
• Zhang Jinghui (next Prime Minister until 1945)

Jewish Far East Community in Manchukuo

• Dr.Abraham Kaufman (Local Harbin Zionist anticommunist leader)

Chōsen

• Crown Prince Euimin (Yi Eun) (Korean Imperial House chief and local leader)
• Prince Imperial Ui (Gyn Rhee) (Korean Imperial House chief and supporter)

White Russians Community in Manchukuo

• Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky (White Russian anticommunist leader)
• General Kislitsin (another White Russian anti-Soviet chief)
• General Vrashevsky (White Russian anti-Stalinist leader, also Japanese follower)

Provisional Government of the Republic of China (North China Political Council), Reformed Government of the Republic of China and the Wang Jingwei regime

• President Wang Kemin (Head of State of the Provisional Government, later Chairman of the North China Political Council and Minister of Internal Affairs for the Wang Jingwei regime)
• President Liang Hongzhi (Head of State of the Reformed Government, later Governor of Jiangsu Province and Chairman of the Legislative Yuan for the Wang Jingwei regime)
• President Wang Jingwei (First Head of State of the Wang Jingwei regime)
• President Chen Gongbo (Second Head of State of the Wang Jingwei regime, previously the Mayor of Shanghai)

Mengjiang

• Demchugdongrub (Head of State)

Malaya

• Sultan Ibrahim of Johor (local Malay Islamic leader)
• Sultan Musa Ghiatuddin Riayat Shah of Selangor (local Malay Islamic leader)
• Ibrahim Hj Yaacob – founder of Kesatuan Melayu Muda

Second Philippine Republic

• José P. Laurel (President of the Japanese inaugurated Republic)
• Emilio Aguinaldo (former Philippine president, also supported Japanese cause for sometime)

Dutch East Indies-Indonesia

• Sukarno (native Indonesian Nationalist leader)
• Mohammad Hatta (local Indonesian Nationalist leader, with Sukarno as Dwitunggal)
• Radjiman Wediodiningrat (native Indonesian Islamic politic)

French Indochina

• Admiral Jean Decoux (Vichy French governor)

Empire of Vietnam

• Emperor Bảo Đại (Vietnamese Head of State)
• Trần Trọng Kim (Local Vietnamese leader)
• Trinh Minh The (Vietnamese nationalist and military leader)

Kingdom of Kampuchea (Cambodia)

• Norodom Sihanouk (Cambodian Head of State and Head of Government; king and prime minister simultaneously)
• Son Ngoc Thanh (Native Cambodian leader, succeeded Sihanouk as prime minister)

Kingdom of Laos

• Prince Phetxarāt (Laotian Political Chief)

Thailand

• Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram (Head of Government and military strongman)
• Prince Wan Waithayakon (Diplomat and propagandist)

State of Burma

• Ba Maw (local Burmese chief, and Head of State)
• U Aung San (local Burmese supporter for certain period)
• Bo Ne Win (native Burmese military supporter)

Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind (Free India)

• Subhas Chandra Bose (legendary Indian Freedom Struggle Hero. Head of State of Provisional Government of Free India)
• A. M. Sahay (another Indian leader and Japanese political follower)
• Rash Behari Bose (Indian pro-Japanese leader)
• Habib Hassan (Indian pro-Japanese leader)

Afghanistan

• Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan (native Afghan Islamic leader)

First East Turkestan Republic

• Muhammad Amin Bughra (Emir)

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