Empire of Vietnam | |||||||||||||||
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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 | |||||||||||||||
Status | Puppet state of Imperial 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 | ||||||||||||||
9 March 1945 | |||||||||||||||
• Proclamation of Independence | 11 March 1945 | ||||||||||||||
• Cabinet formed | 17 April 1945 | ||||||||||||||
19 August 1945 | |||||||||||||||
25 August 1945 | |||||||||||||||
Currency | Vietnamese văn, French Indochinese piastre, Japanese military currency | ||||||||||||||
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Today part of | Vietnam | ||||||||||||||
History of Vietnam |
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Vietnam portal |
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] between March 11 and August 25, 1945. It was a member of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. It was led by the Nguyễn dynasty and created when Emperor Bảo Đại declared independence for Vietnam from French protection. The empire did not recognize French colonial sovereignty over Cochinchina and at the end of its rule, the empire also successfully reclaimed Cochinchina as part of Vietnam.[2]
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