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

Because Liu’s great-grandfather was an official in the Manchukuo Japanese puppet state before and during World War II, Liu’s grandfather was labeled a “posterity of class enemy” even though he was, Liu said, “a diligent mine engineer.”

From Washington Post

At the time, the city was known as Hsinking and was the capital of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

From Washington Post

The son of a soldier who served in the Japanese Kwantung Army during World War II in the puppet state of Manchukuo in China, Mr. Kore-eda grew up attuned to the vagaries of class within his own family.

From New York Times

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