The Japanese held Burma until the second Allied campaign of 1944, although an official surrender did not take place until August 1945.

In 1943, the Japanese commuted the sentence of Dr Ba Maw, an outspoken advocate for Burmese self-rule, and installed him as the head of the puppet government.

The Japanese characters in the oblong box at the bottom of each note read “Government of Great Imperial Japan” and the contents of the seal comprise the Japanese symbol for the Minister of Finance.

Prior to the Japanese invasion, Burma circulated the Indian rupee issued by the Reserve Bank of India[1] since the nationalized paper currency was introduced by the British Administration in 1897.

During the World War II, Subhas Chandra Bose led Indian National Army (INA) seized Mizoram and parts of Nagaland in British India from the colonial British control with the help of Japanese forces.