Editing Axis powers (section)

=== Burma (Ba Maw government) ===
{{Main|Japanese occupation of Burma|State of Burma|Burma National Army}}
The Japanese Army and Burma nationalists, led by [[Aung San]], seized control of Burma from the United Kingdom during 1942. A [[State of Burma]] was formed on 1 August 1943 under the Burmese nationalist leader [[Ba Maw]]. A treaty of alliance was concluded between the Ba Maw regime and Japan was signed by Ba Maw for Burma and Sawada Renzo for Japan on the same day in which the Ba Maw government pledged itself to provide the Japanese "with every necessary assistance in order to execute a successful military operation in Burma". The Ba Maw government mobilised Burmese society during the war to support the Axis war-effort.<ref name="Seekins1">{{cite book |last1=Seekins |first1=Donald M. |title=Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) |date= 2017 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538101834 |page=438 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nmc2DgAAQBAJ&q=%22Ba+Maw%22+%22axis%22 |access-date=27 October 2020}}</ref>
 
The Ba Maw regime established the Burma Defence Army (later renamed the [[Burma National Army]]), which was commanded by [[Aung San]] which fought alongside the Japanese in the [[Burma campaign]]. The Ba Maw has been described as a state having "independence without sovereignty" and as being effectively a Japanese puppet state.<ref name="Yoon1">{{cite journal |last1=Yoon |first1=Won Z. |title=Military Expediency: A Determining Factor in the Japanese Policy regarding Burmese Independence |journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |date=September 1978 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=262–263 |doi=10.1017/S0022463400009772 |jstor=20062727 |s2cid=159799719 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20062727 |access-date=25 October 2020|url-access=subscription }}</ref> On 27 March 1945 the Burma National Army revolted against the Japanese.