The series, titled “Manshu Ahen Squad” (Manchuria opium squad), is running in Shukan Young Magazine, a manga weekly published by Kodansha Ltd. The story is set in Manchukuo, Japan’s 1932 ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

Many have expressed surprise at the emerging alliance of Beijing, Moscow and Tehran, which are three starkly different regimes. Do they have anything in common apart from authoritarianism? It is all ...

At a general meeting of the League of Nations, 42 out of the 44 member nations refused to acknowledge Manchukuo as an independent nation. Historian Katsumi Usui notes in "Manshukoku to Kokusai ...

S. citizens to go home. In China, Formosa and Manchukuo there were about 7,000 of them; in Japan 8,000 more (including probably 4,000 of Japanese descent); in Hong Kong 1,500; in French Indo-China ...

There, he contributed to North Manchuria Railway negotiations, eventually becoming the deputy foreign minister in Manchukuo. Sugihara later resigned from this post in protest of Japan’s harsh ...

In 1931, the year the Manchurian Incident began, the manufacture of metal propellers also began. The year after the establishment of Manchukuo and the May 15 incident of 1932, the methods for ...