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The Kwantung Army and its homeland allies saw this as an opportunity to seize northern China.
In September 1931, a section of the railway was lightly damaged by the Japanese Kwantung Army as a pretext for an invasion of Manchuria.
In other international issues, Beria ( along with Mikoyan ) correctly foresaw the victory of Mao Zedong in the Chinese Civil War and greatly helped the communist success by letting the Communist Party of China use Soviet-occupied Manchuria as a staging area and arranging huge weapons shipments to the People's Liberation Army, mainly from the recently-captured equipment of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
After initial successes the Japanese assault on Mongolia was checked by the Red Army that inflicted the first major defeat on the Japanese Kwantung Army.
This operation destroyed the fighting capability of the Kwantung Army and left the USSR in occupation of all of Manchuria by the end of the war.
Later, the Japanese Kwantung Army found him too independent, so he was assassinated in 1928.
During this battle, a combined Soviet-Mongolian force defeated the Japanese Kwantung Army ( Kantōgun ) supported by limited Manchukuoan forces.
The commanding officer of the Kwantung Army in Manchukuo was additionally the Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo.
After the defeat of Japan in World War II, Khabarovsk was the site of the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, in which twelve former members of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Unit 731 were put on trial for the manufacture and use of biological weapons during World War II.
Already controlling an area directly surrounding the South Manchuria Railroad, Japan's Kwantung Army further invaded Manchuria ( Northeast China ) in 1931, following the Mukden Incident, in which they claimed to have had territory attacked by the Chinese ( a few meters of the South Manchuria Railway was destroyed in a bombing sabotage ).
In 1928, however, the machinations of the ultranationalist secret societies and the Kwantung Army resulted in a crisis: the assassination of the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin and the failed attempt to seize Manchuria.
Reassigned to the Kwantung Army in September 1912, Koiso was promoted to major and Battalion Commander of the 2d Infantry Regiment in August 1914.
In February 1932, Koiso became Vice-Minister of War and in August 1932, concurrently Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army.
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# the size of the Kwantung Army was three times that of the Soviet Union's Far Eastern forces
" This information made possible the transfer of Soviet divisions from the Far East, although the presence of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria necessitated the Soviet Union's keeping a large number of troops on the eastern borders ..."
Originally set up under the Kempeitai military police of the Empire of Japan, Unit 731 was taken over and commanded until the end of the war by General Shiro Ishii, an officer in the Kwantung Army.
In 1936, Hirohito authorized, by imperial decree, the expansion of this unit and its integration into the Kwantung Army as the Epidemic Prevention Department.
From August 1940, all these units were known collectively as the " Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army ( 関東軍防疫給水部本部 )" or " Unit 731 " ( 満州第731部隊 ) for short.
Included among those prosecuted for war crimes including germ warfare was General Otozō Yamada, the commander-in-chief of the million-man Kwantung Army occupying Manchuria.
was a Manchu princess brought up in Japan, who served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second World War.
In 1933, she offered the unit to the Japanese Kwantung Army for Operation Nekka, but it was refused.

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