Dutch East Indies

The Dutch East Indies consisted of a large archipelago in southeast Asia and was controlled by the Netherlands.

Dutch East Indies in Days of Infamy
During World War II, the Empire of Japan invaded much of East Asia and the Pacific including the East Indies which they took from the Dutch who had been conquered by Nazi Germany. Representatives from the collaborationist puppet government established in the East Indies were present during a crowning ceremony in Hawaii of King Stanley Owana Laanui after Japan conquered the Islands following the Battle of Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Dutch East Indies in Southern Victory
During the interwar period, the Empire of Japan "persuaded" the Dutch to handover the East Indies to them for a large sum of compensation with an underlying threat of force. The Japanese had done the same to the French Empire (which had been defeated and weakened during the Great War) by forcing them to hand over Indochina.

The British were relieved at first that the Japanese did not do the same towards their Asian colonies which included Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong and India. However, in 1943 during the Second Great War, the Japanese launched an invasion of British territories in Asia and the Pacific after having abandoned a stalemated war with the United States over the Sandwich Islands.

Dutch East Indies in World War
Prior to The Race's Conquest Fleet's invasion of Tosev 3, the Japanese had seized the East Indies from the Dutch who had been conquered by Nazi Germany. Following the Peace of Cairo which was signed by the Race and the Big Five, Japan was forced to cede all its Asian and Pacific colonies to The Race which made them part of their empire.