In 1931 Japan’s Kwantung army, looking for an excuse to invade Manchuria, accused Chinese soldiers of blowing up a section of the Japanese-operated South Manchurian railroad near Liu Ho Kou.

It began in December 1941 when Japan invaded Thailand and attacked the ... Ishii arrived in Manchuria, modern-day China, not long after the occupation forces, and set to work building his empire ...

The attack, which took place on the anniversary of a false flag event orchestrated by Japanese military personnel to justify the invasion of Manchuria, prompted the Japanese government to demand ...

In late September, a US HC-103J Super Hercules spotted four foreign vessels operating about 440 miles southwest of St.

We should remind ourselves that Soviet troops invaded the Chishima islands, north of the main island of Hokkaido, and Manchuria even after Aug. 15, 1945. Remnants of defeated Japanese troops were ...

One Saturday afternoon in October, families, schoolkids and the elderly milled about the Chiran Peace Museum, near Kagoshima in south-west Japan. In this country, many things branded “peace ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in ... to support his guerilla campaign against Japanese imperialism in Manchuria. Later, under pressure from an intensive Japanese manhunt, Kim fled ...

which the Imperial Japanese used as the pretext for the invasion and conquest of Manchuria; this prompted Chinese expats in the United States to found aviation schools in major cities with ...

The US ended the Second World War by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the war in the Pacific was all but ...

1930, the Smoot Hawley tariffs were enacted. Trade war started. Depression set in. Japan, which lost access to food and oil, invaded resource rich Manchuria. Then war in China, Pearl Harbor, ...

Iran invades Saudi Arabia to establish Shia ... extends beyond Taiwan to territories in Russia (Outer Manchuria, 910,000 km²), Japan (the Senkaku Islands, about 330 km²), and India (the Line ...