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One of the most potent excuses for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria was the need of protection and stable government in a bandit-infested land. Last week, 20 months after the first Japanese ...

Japan, having promised the League of Nations to withdraw from Manchuria (China’s northern granary), withdrew a few more soldiers last week, but irate Chinese were not appeased. General Honjo, ...

Ye Lou's romantic thriller, set during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in the early 1930s, plays like an Eastern art-house take on the World War II occupation drama by way of Wong Kar-Wai. Zhang ...

League of Nations General Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, February 24th, 1933. After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the League of Nations had tasked British politician Lord Lytton to investigate ...