Japanese Puppet States

This is not exactly an AH thread, although it could be.

Could anyone direct me to a list or a map of Japanese puppet states on the Asian mainland? From my research there seems to be a lot of confusion. For example, I've found this puppet-state Mengjiang, which is Inner Mongolia, but a large part is within Manchukuo, which is another puppet state.

Anyone please?
 
Ok let's put in some AH.

If the Japanese Empire was successful in creating the full Pan-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, would they have continued with their policy of puppet-states, or would they have sought a more straightforward centralized approach? What other puppet-states could there have been?
 
There was also the Wang Jingwei Government in Nanking, which was set up as a rival to Chiang kai-schek's regime.

As for the question of future Japanese policy, I think it would have been a combination of both. I can imagine them annexing Manchukuo if they had won the war (the Kangde-Emperor, more commonly known as Pu Yi, by all accounts was childless and his brother and heir apparent was apparently married to a princess from the Japanese imperial family. Japanese was also introduced as the official language and the Japanese government also seems to have pursued a policy of settling the land with Japanese citizens).

Thus it is possible that in time Manchukuo would have become a Japanese governorate, similar to Korea in 1910.

As for other puppet states, they might have continued the Chinese vassal state under Wang Jingwei (I am in doubt whether they would have given the parts of China under that regime to the former Qing dynasty). Siam would surely have also continued as a vassal state and historically in 1945 the Japanese set up the short-lived Empire of Vietnam as a client state, it might have been ruled by Emperor Bao Dai.
 
For example, I've found this puppet-state Mengjiang, which is Inner Mongolia, but a large part is within Manchukuo, which is another puppet state.

Part of Inner Mongolia was in Manchukuo, part was Mengjiang and the rest was controlled by China. I think that Chinese Inner Mongolia and the communist states of Mongolia and Tuva would have gone to Mengjiang had the Japanese defeated China and the USSR.

Other details I've found are that they planned to convert Chiang Kai-Shek into a puppet, give China part of French Indochina, annex Singapore and most of the Indonesian archipelago, and create a satellite called "Mahamalaya" from Malaya (except the part given to Siam) and Sumatra. See the map in the upper-right corner.
 
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