When northeastern China was known as Manchuria, the town of Mukden (present-day Shenyang) went by the Japanese name of Hoten. It had a train station modeled after Tokyo Station and the primary ...

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While extraterritoriality in Manchuria was abolished in December 1937, Japanese were not treated harshly even thereafter. Sumihisa Ikeda, who served as deputy chief of staff in the Kwantung Army ...

The Treaty of Aigun in 1858 forced China to cede much of Manchuria to the Russian Tsar Alexander II. The territory, comprising some 600,000 square kilometres, is part of Russia's Far East and ...

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