Empire of Vietnam
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ベトナム帝国 (Japanese) Betonamu Teikoku 越南帝國 (Hán tự) Đế quốc Việt Nam (Vietnamese) |
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| Puppet state of Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Anthem Đăng đàn cung The Emperor Mounts His Throne Việt Nam minh châu trời Đông Vietnam - Pearl of the Orient |
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 Location of the Empire of Vietnam in Southeast Asia.
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Hà Nội Huế |
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Vietnamese Japanese |
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| Government | Monarchy (Puppet state) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Emperor | Bảo Đại | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Trần Trọng Kim | |||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | World War II | |||||||||||||||||||
| • | Established | 11 March 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 23 August 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Empire of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đế quốc Việt Nam; Hán tự: 越南帝國; Japanese: ベトナム帝国) was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan governing the whole of Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.
During World War II, after the fall of France and establishment of Vichy France, the French had lost practical control in French Indochina to the Japanese, but Japan stayed in the background while giving the Vichy French administrators nominal control. This changed on 9 March 1945 when Japan officially took over. To gain the support of the Vietnamese people, Imperial Japan declared it would return sovereignty to Vietnam. Emperor Bảo Đại declared the Treaty of Huế (1884) made with France in 1884 void. Trần Trọng Kim, a renowned historian and scholar, was chosen to lead the government as prime minister.
Kim and his ministers spent a substantial amount of time on constitutional matters at their first meeting in Huế on 4 May 1945. One of their first resolutions was to alter the national name to Việt Nam. This was seen as a significant and urgent task. It implied territorial unity; "Việt Nam" had been Emperor Gia Long's choice for the name of the country since he unified the modern territory of Việt Nam in 1802. Furthermore, this was the first time that Vietnamese nationalists in the northern, central and southern regions of the country officially recognized this name. In March, activists in the North always mentioned Đại Việt (Great Việt), the name used before the 15th century by the Lê Dynasty and its predecessors, while those in the South used Vietnam, and the central leaders used An Nam (Peaceful South) or Đại Nam (Great South, which was used by the Nguyễn Lords).
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