In the bitter cold of Manchuria great things were about to happen this week. Squads of police had searched every house in Changchung and confiscated 3,000 rifles and 150,000 rounds of ammunition.

Manchukuo was a puppet state established in large part by the Imperial Japanese Army about a century ago. Recent research has uncovered the dark side of Manchukuo and the huge influence played by ...

On a cold and bitter plain one day last week 28-year-old Henry Pu Yi, last of the Manchus, stood in dragon-embroidered robes, worshipped at the Altar of Heaven, and returning to his small ...