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Wanting to win Filipino loyalty, the Japanese declared the Philippines independent in 1943, ahead of the US promise.

Previously, the US did not recognise its sovereignty.

The Spanish-American war was concluded by the Treaty of Paris which decreed that Spain would give up the Philippines, but in turn the archipelago would become a colony of the United States. 

Filipinos had not been consulted, and as a result the war for independence turned against the United States.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/ar...dependence

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