The Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina, known as Meigō Sakusen, was a Japanese operation that took place on 9 March 1945, towards the end of World War II. With Japanese forces losing the war and
French colonial troops retreating to the Sino-Tonkinese frontier during the Japanese Coup of March 1945.
French Indochina (1913)
General Yuitsu Tsuchihashi.
French army personnel captured by the Japanese in Hanoi.
The Japanese invasion of French Indochina was a short undeclared military confrontation between Japan and Vichy France in northern French Indochina. Fighting lasted from 22 to 26 September 1940; the s
Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
…Jean Decoux signed an agreement under which Japanese forces were permitted to occupy bases across Indochina. In September the same year Japanese troops invaded and took control of Northern Indochina, and then in July 1941 they occupied the Southern half as well. The Japanese allowed Vichy French troops and the…
Imperial Japanese Army soldiers advance to Lang Son, French Indochina, in September 1940
Japanese troops entering Saigon in 1941.