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6 unusual facts about Manchukuo


Baojia system

The Japanese also revived the baojia (in Japanese, Tonarihumi) system in Manchukuo on December 22, 1933.

Manchukuo

The 2008 South Korean western The Good, the Bad, the Weird is set in the desert wilderness of 1930s Manchuria.

Inner Manchuria came under strong Russian influence in the 1890s with the building of the Chinese Eastern Railway through Harbin to Vladivostok.

Nine-Power Treaty

However, the Nine-Power Treaty lacked any enforcement regulations, and when violated by Japan during its invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and creation of Manchukuo, the United States could do little more than issue protests and impose economic sanctions.

Shinkyo

Shinkyō (新京), the Japanese name of the capital of former pupper-state Manchukuo

The Misadventure of Zoo

There, he was discovered by a Japanese spy, who wanted him to be a body double of Puyi, by then the Emperor of Manchukuo.


Bao Guancheng

In a speech given in Manchukuo before his departure for Tokyo in September 1932, he derided the League of Nations as a failure and called for the creation of an "Asiatic League of Nations" as an alternative.

Battles of Khalkhin Gol

However, the western region of Manchukuo was garrisoned by the newly formed IJA 23d Infantry Division at Hailar, under General Michitarō Komatsubara and included several Manchukuoan army and border guard units.

Briquette

There were many Rentan factories in Manchukuo and Pyongyang.

Feng Zhanhai

Feng Zhanhai or Feng Chan-hai, 冯占海,(1899–1963), was one of the leaders of the volunteer armies resisting the Japanese and the puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria.

Foreign commerce and shipping of Empire of Japan

More than 90% of Chosen's exterior commerce was with Japan and Manchukuo.

Helen Bickham

Helen Bickham was born on June 9, 1935 in Harbin, Manchuria at the time of Japanese occupation.

Junkers Ju 86

Kempeitai used several as transports in secret and paramilitary operations in Manchukuo.

Kazuo Hirotsu

His politics supported the Japanese government in World War II, and he was sent on a government-sponsored visit to Korea, where he met author Kim Saryan, and to Manchukuo, where he toured several Japanese settlements.

Kong Xianrong

After the Army of Wang Delin was defeated and retreated from Manchukuo, Kong Xianrong gave up the struggle, but his wife and another of Wang Delin's subordinates, Yao Zhenshan, led a small band which fought on until the spring of 1941 when it was annihilated.

Liu Changchun

In May 1932, Liu proclaimed that as a Chinese person, he would never represent the puppet state of Manchukuo in the Olympic Games in Ta Kung Pao, a Chinese newspaper.

Manchukuo Imperial Army

During the war, a Manchukuo version of the Mitsubishi Light Tank (Type 95 Ha-Go) in use in training tank schools, but did not reach substantial operational deployment.

Manchukuo national football team

Due to the Non-Recognition Policy of the United States and other countries towards Manchukuo, the team was not permitted to join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) or FIFA, and was therefore not eligible to enter either the World Cup or AFC Asian Cup.

Manchurian Industrial Development Company

Mangyō was dissolved with the destruction of Manchukuo by the Soviet Red Army in the invasion of Manchuria at the end of World War II.

Pujie

The engagement ceremony took place at the Embassy of Manchukuo in Tokyo on 2 February 1937 with the official wedding held in the Imperial Army Hall at Kudanzaka, Tokyo, on 3 April.

Qinglong, Liaoning

Qinglong was part of the "puppet state," Manchukuo, that Japan created in order to mine precious resources such as steel to fuel their war machine leading up to and during World War Two, largely at the behest of the Manchurian Industrial Development Company.

Randi Anda

During the Second World War, she worked with Arne Anda in Qiqihar, Manchukuo before both were taken prisoner by the Japanese on 8 December 1941.

Takashi Hishikari

On 25 September 1933, the Soviet Union protested an alleged plot for Manchukuoan seizure of Chinese Eastern Railway accusing that it was a carefully worked out plan adopted in Harbin at a series of meetings of the Japanese military mission and the responsible Japanese administrators of Manchukuo.

Type 90 240 mm railway gun

It was redeployed to Manchukuo in 1941, and based in the Hulin area of Heilongjiang, as part of the defenses against the Soviet Union, where it remained for the duration of World War II.

Unfree labour

In Asia, according to a joint study of historians featuring Zhifen Ju, Mark Peattie, Toru Kubo, and Mitsuyoshi Himeta, more than 10 million Chinese were mobilized by the Japanese army and enslaved by the Kōa-in for slave labour in Manchukuo and north China.

Yenki Abbey

In the midst of the flourishing of the Abbey of Yenki, the monastery's mission stations oftentimes fell victim to the violent atmosphere of Manchukuo, as Chinese and Korean partisans resisted the Japanese occupying forces.

Yu Chung-han

Yu Chung-han, a prominent civilian politician of Zhang Xueliang's Northeastern government, who favored the autonomy of Manchuria and aided Japan's establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo.


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