PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE

M.T. 31401418

Japanese Premier

Hideki TojoMade a promise in his speech before the Japanese Diet, Japan Legislature on January 21, 1942

May 1943

Premier Tojo announced that Philippines would be given by

Japan in the same year.

Preparatory Commission for the Philippines

IndependenceJose P. Laurel

Framing a constitution

September 4, 1943

BIRTH OF THE 2ND REPUBLIC

OF THE PHILIPPINES

October 14, 1943

Proclamation of Philippine

Independence and inauguration of

Philippine Republic.

Only Japan, her Axis allies (Italy and Germany), Spain

and a handful of other sates, mostly Axis satellite nations, recognized the Philippines.