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The Manchuria-Mongolia problem (Japanese: 満蒙問題, Hepburn: manmō mondai) refers to a set of issues concerning Imperial Japan's protection of its special interests in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War.
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria took place in 1931 following the Mukden Incident, a staged event engineered by Japanese military personnel from the Kwantung Army as a pretext for invasion. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The region was subsequently separated from Chinese control and the Japanese-aligned puppet state of Manchukuo was created. [ 19 ]
The Basic Outline of Manchurian Colonial Policy (満洲開拓政策基本要綱), which detailed policies regarding the immigration of Japanese citizens to Manchuria, was bilaterally announced and swiftly implemented in 1939 by the Japanese and Manchurian governments. These actions by the Japanese government in this time frame to encourage ...
Map of Japanese Hokushin-ron plans for a potential attack on the Soviet Union.Dates indicate the year that Japan gained control of the territory. Hokushin-ron (北進論, "Northern Expansion Doctrine" or "Northern Road") was a political doctrine of the Empire of Japan before World War II that stated that Manchuria and Siberia were Japan's sphere of interest and that the potential value to ...
From 698 to 926, the kingdom of Bohai ruled over all of Manchuria, including the northern Korean peninsula and Primorsky Krai.Balhae was composed predominantly of Goguryeo language and Tungusic-speaking peoples (Mohe people), and was an early feudal medieval state of Eastern Asia, which developed its industry, agriculture, animal husbandry, and had its own cultural traditions and art.
The most popular song in Japan in 1932 was the Manchuria March whose verses proclaimed that the seizing of Manchuria in 1931–32 was a continuation of what Japan had fought for against Russia in 1904–05, and the ghosts of the Japanese soldiers killed in the Russo-Japanese war could now rest at ease as their sacrifices had not been in vain.
At the time, the Japanese media also referred to the event as the "Zhang Zuolin Explosion Death Incident" (Japanese: 張作霖爆殺事件, Hepburn: Chōsakurin bakusatsu jiken) or simply the "Manchurian incident". [4] The latter name fell out of use after it started being used for the much more famous 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Most of the southern branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway was transferred from Russia to Japan, and became the South Manchurian Railway. Japanese influence extended into Outer Manchuria in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917, but Outer Manchuria had reverted to Soviet control by 1925. Manchuria was an important region due to its rich ...