So did the size of Japan’s military: During the six years between the invasion of Manchuria and the beginning of Sino-Japanese total war in 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army was increased from ...

"Manchuria, comprising the Three Eastern Provinces of China with an area of 363,700 square miles and a population of nearly 30,000,000, has been the paramount object of Japanese expansion for ...

First, the post-invasion 'Manchurian Crisis' ended with the dramatic walk-out of Japanese delegates from the League of Nations in 1933. This was in reaction to the findings of the Lytton ...

FOUR recent deliberate moves by Japan have aroused suspicion and resentment in many parts of the world. By invading Manchuria and establishing the state of Manchukuo, Japan in 1931 issued a challenge ...

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 ...

In February 1932, while the Chinese Nineteenth Route Army was defending Shanghai against Japanese military invasion, Tokyo news agencies announced that Manchuria had declared independence of China ...

The incident occurred around the anniversary of Japan's 1931 invasion of Manchuria, now northeast China. A 10-year-old Japanese student who was stabbed near his school in southern China has died, ...