Manchukuo

American  

[man-choo-kwoh, mahn-joh-kwaw] / ˈmænˈtʃuˈkwoʊ, ˈmɑnˈdʒoʊˈkwɔ /

Or Manchoukuo

noun

1. a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.

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Manchukuo British  

/ ˈmænˈtʃuːˈkwəʊ /

noun

1. a former state of E Asia (1932–45), consisting of the three provinces of old Manchuria and Jehol

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Example Sentences

An occupying Japanese army swept into Northeastern China and, under the quisling emperor Pu Yi, established the puppet state of Manchukuo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

The Lytton Report, published in October 1932, found fault on both sides but did not recommend full autonomy for Manchukuo.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The last chancellor of Weimar Germany sat in a Rococo palace in Berlin; the last emperor of China was installed on a puppet throne in Manchukuo.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2018

In 1931, it created a new nation, a puppet state called Manchukuo, which had been cobbled together from the three northernmost provinces of China.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

The refusal of the Hoover Administration to recognize the independence of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo early in 1932 was based on kindred grounds.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel