I can't believe no-ones mentioned Poland's role in defending Britain yet.
Polish and Czech pilots were among the Few who battled Hitler to defend freedom. For this, they have my undying respect.
Perhaps your little island isn't the center of the world, eh?
If it werent for us, you'd be under the jackboot of Nazism.
Ingrate.
And for you, we were enslaved for two centuries.
What have I to be grateful for? I would take the Emperor in Tokyo over the Emperor in London.
Getting thrown off a cliff, raped or having your child thrown in the air and caught with a bayonet is better then living under the King or Queen of England? Not hardly.
Precisely, That wasn't better than life in the Empire; it was life in the Empire.
Imperial Japan after 1930 was nearly as bad as Nazi Germany.
But India was not part of Greater East Asia, so it doesn't matter.
If the Japanese had gotten to India, they would have behaved the same way there that they behaved in China, the Philippines, and Korea. Perhaps even worse if they didn't care about governing it after the war.