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 ...

RAILWAYS have been the chief means by which both Japan and Russia have striven to establish special positions in eastern Asia. The economic and strategic frontier of the Japanese sphere of influence ...

Promptly Henry issued “Decree No. 13,” ordered 200,000 yen ($68,000) given to the poor of Manchuria. Japanese bankers last week were already negotiating a loan of $6,000,000 to the new state.

2) A tempting Chinese proposal, which would leave Japan indefinitely in control of most of Manchuria and save faces all round, had just been received by the Japanese Government from the French ...

TOKYO, Feb. 14, 1933 (UP) -- Japan will order occupation of Jehol province by her Manchurian army soon, despite world opinion, it appeared certain today in the face of a prospect of unified ...

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

When northeastern China was known as Manchuria, the town of Mukden (present-day Shenyang) went by the Japanese name of Hoten. It had a train station modeled after Tokyo Station and the primary ...

ABOARD SPECIAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO MUKDEN, Manchuria, Sept. 20, 1931 (UP) -- Tens of thousands of Chinese, including many soldiers, fled southward toward Peiping tonight amid scenes of utmost confusion.

Growing up, Fumina Oka knew little about the mysterious university her Taiwanese grandfather attended in northern China’s Manchuria during Japan’s occupation in the early 20th century. But as ...