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

They then smuggled him back to Manchuria, and by March 1932, he had been persuaded to accept the position of “chief executive” of the newly born state of Manchukuo, otherwise known as Manchuria.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Japan ran the government in Manchukuo as a puppet state, controlling the native Chinese officials.

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

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