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Long before the outbreak of World War 2, the Empire of Japan began an expansionist policy to stop the influence of Western ...

THE incident which occurred in Manchuria during the night of September 18 set in motion a train of events of great magnitude. The incident itself was unimportant: a gunmen's fight in New York or a ...

The above railway map shows the situation which has developed in Manchuria since Japan occupied the country and later set up the government of Manchukuo. Japan's purposes are revealed as twofold: one, ...

Reviewed by Jeff Kingston There is a powerful fascination in Japan about the lives and fates of the Japanese who migrated to Manchuria 1932-45. Some 320,000 rural Japanese were mobilized in this ...

Japan was content with Chang Tso-lin, the daring Chinese ex-bandit, who seized control and made himself Dictator of the autonomous state of Manchuria. He was a man who kept his word.

THOSE who wish to see what a world of pleasure may be opened up to one by an adequate knowledge of some department of Natural Science, ought to read this book. Mr. Adams is an enthusiastic ...

After Japan’s subsumption of Manchuria, it continued to poke and prod disjoint China. At the turn of the 20th century, Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang had laid the groundwork for a free and ...

Japan's slow-burning aggression was borne of frustration with a world whose order appeared tipped in favour of the west. Susan Townsend describes how the intensification of this feeling led up to ...