The Japanese-sponsored 'independent' Philippine republic under President José P. Laurel, inaugurated 14 October 1943; a member of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere with no real sovereignty.
Dissolved by Laurel from exile in Japan on 17 August 1945, after the American liberation of the islands and Japan's surrender.
Covers the Laurel republic in detail — its politics, collaboration question, and collapse.