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At least to the extent that Japan was trying to remove Western influences on the territories under its control. (Weren't you the one praising the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere a few years ago?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_the_Dutch_East_Indies

The occupation was the first serious challenge to the Dutch in their colony and ended the Dutch colonial rule. By its end, changes were so numerous and extraordinary that the subsequent Indonesian National Revolution became possible.[4] Unlike the Dutch, the Japanese facilitated the politicisation of Indonesians down to the village level. The Japanese educated, trained and armed many young Indonesians and gave their nationalist leaders a political voice. Thus, through both the destruction of the Dutch colonial regime and the facilitation of Indonesian nationalism, the Japanese occupation created the conditions for the proclamation of Indonesian independence within days of the Japanese surrender in the Pacific.
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Expecting that Dutch administrators would be kept by the Japanese to run the colony, most Dutch had refused to leave. Instead, they were sent to detention camps and Japanese or Indonesian replacements were installed in senior and technical positions.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kampuchea_(1945)

The new government did away with the romanisation of the Khmer language that the French colonial administration was beginning to enforce and officially reinstated the Khmer script. This measure taken by the short-lived governmental authority would be popular and long-lasting, for since then no government in Cambodia has tried to romanise the Khmer language again.[3] Other changes included the reinstating of the Buddhist lunar calendar.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Singapore

To discourage Western influence, which Japan sought to eliminate from the very start of their invasion, the Japanese set up schools and education institutions and pressured the local people to learn their language (Japanese). Textbooks and language guidebooks were printed in Japanese and radios and movies were broadcast and screened in Japanese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong

English shop signs and advertisements were banned and, in April 1942, streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese. For example, Queen's Road became Meiji-dori and Des Voeux Road became Shōwa-dori.[5][32] Similarly, the Gloucester Hotel became the Matsubara.[33] The Peninsula Hotel, the Matsumoto;[34] Lane Crawford, Matsuzakaya.[35] The Queen's was renamed first the Nakajima Theatre, then the Meiji Theatre.[35] Their propaganda also pointed to the pre-eminence of the Japanese way of life, of Japanese spiritual values and the ills of western materialism.[citation needed]

Government House, the residence of British governors prior to occupation, was the seat of power for the Japanese military governors. During the occupation, the buildings were largely reconstructed in 1944 following designs by Japanese engineer Siechi Fujimura, including the addition of a Japanese-style tower which remains to this day.[36] Many Georgian architectural features were removed during this period.[37] The roofs also continue to reflect a Japanese influence.[38]

Contrast this with the earlier (pre-Axis) rightist Japan:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/shimabara-rebellion-the-christian-revolt-that-isolated-medieval-japan/msg13827/#msg13827