The name Guandong later came to be used more narrowly for the area of the Kwantung Leased Territory on the Liaodong Peninsula.

The southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula was ruled by Japan as the Kwantung Leased Territory.

Eventually, Russia agreed to offer a diplomatic solution ( See Kwantung Leased Territory ) to the Chinese Empire, and agreed to a token lease of the region to save face, instead of annexing Manchuria outright, its de-facto effect.

* Kwantung Leased Territory

Prior to the escalation of World War II to the Pacific and East Asia, the Japanese planners regarded it as self-evident that the conquests secured in Japan's earlier wars with Russia ( South Sakhalin and the Kwantung Leased Territory ), Germany ( the South Pacific Mandate ) and China ( Manchuria ) would be retained, as well as Korea ( Chōsen ), Taiwan ( Formosa ), the recently seized additional portions of China and occupied French Indochina.

# Officials of the governing bodies of Karafuto Prefecture, Kwantung Leased Territory, Governor-General of Korea and Governor-General of Taiwan

Li Changchun was born in February 1944 in modern-day Dalian, Liaoning, then administered by the Empire of Japan as " Dairen ", Kwantung Leased Territory.

At Dalian in the Kwantung Leased Territory, Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army General Shigeru Honjō was at first appalled that the invasion plan was enacted without his permission, but was eventually convinced by Ishiwara to give his approval after the fact.

As a consequence of the Treaty of Portsmouth ( 5 September 1905 ), which ended the Russo-Japanese War, both sides agreed to evacuate Manchuria and return its sovereignty to China, but Japan was given the lease for the Liaotung / Liaodong ( Kwantung Leased Territory ).

Two years later, Russia coerced a lease of the Liaodong from China and gained railroad right-of-way to join the Liaodong Peninsula to the Chinese Eastern Railway with a line running from Port Arthur and nearby Dalny ( Dalian ) to the Chinese city of Harbin ( see Kwantung Leased Territory ), and systematically began to fortify the town and harbor at Port Arthur.

After the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 they had gained two important outposts in south Manchuria: The Guandong ( Kwantung ) Leased Territory consisted of a peninsula in the southernmost part of Manchuria.

In negotiations with the Republic of China under the Twenty-One Demands, the terms of the lease of the Kwantung Leased Territory were extended to 99 years, or until 1997.

However, Japan retained the Kwantung Leased Territory as a territory apart from the nominally-independent Manchukuo until its surrender at the end of World War II in 1945.

Internally, the Kwantung Leased Area was divided into two districts, with two cities and nine towns.

In the Japanese national census of 1935, the population of the Kwantung Leased Territory was 1, 034, 074, of whom 168, 185 were Japanese nationals.

He was subsequently attached to the Governor-General of the Kwantung Leased Territory, where he became acquainted with Gotō Shinpei, then president of the South Manchurian Railway and Yamamoto Jōtarō, then working for Mitsui in developing the natural resources of Manchuria.

** Kwantung Leased Territory section

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From April 26, 1912 to September 15, 1914, he served as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory.

Displays about Taiwan, Korea, the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the Ainu from Hokkaidō were meant to demonstrate that Japan was following in Great Britain ’ s footsteps as an imperial power to improve the lives of the ‘ natives ’ in its colonies.

The airline had a " hub " in Hsinking and was linked by regular flight routes from Harbin, Shamussi ( Kiamusze ), Jilin, Mukden, Antung, Chinchow, Chengde, Tsitsihar, Hailar, and the Kwantung Leased Territory and Korea areas, for connections with Imperial Japanese Airways ( Dai Nippon Koku KK ) to Japan itself or foreign routes.

Internally, Dai Nippon Kōkū linked the Japanese home islands with the Kwantung Leased Territory, Korea, Taiwan, Karafuto, and Saipan and Palau in the South Pacific Mandate.

* Kwantung Leased Territory ( Japanese: 関東州 Kantōshū ), a Japanese possession in Northeastern China until the end of World War II

In terms of a permanent standing organization, the Japanese Army created the Kantōgun, usually known in English as the Kwantung Army, to manage its overseas deployment in the Kwantung Territory and Manchukuo from 1906.

In September 1931, a section of the railway was lightly damaged by the Japanese Kwantung Army as a pretext for an invasion of Manchuria.

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.

Later, the Japanese Kwantung Army found him too independent, so he was assassinated in 1928.

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 ).

Reassigned to the Kwantung Army in September 1912, Koiso was promoted to major and Battalion Commander of the 2d Infantry Regiment in August 1914.

# the size of the Kwantung Army was three times that of the Soviet Union's Far Eastern forces

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.

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.

However, her very popularity created issues with the Kwantung Army, as her utility as an intelligence asset was long gone, and her value as a propaganda symbol was compromised by her increasingly critical tone against the Japanese military's exploitative policies in Manchukuo as a base of operations against China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, and she gradually faded from public sight.

On June 4, Zhang, who was heading north from Beijing by train, was assassinated by Japanese conspirators, operating from Japan's Kwantung Army.

One was that the Kwantung Army had a strong reserve force that could be transported by railway from Korea, which was a Japanese colony, directly adjacent to Manchuria.

Japan established the to administer the new territory, and based the Kwantung Garrison to defend it and the railway.

In a reorganization of 1919, the Kwantung Garrison was renamed the Kwantung Army and separated from the civilian administration of the territory, which was designated the.

This name was also used by the Japanese to their leased territory of Dalian, as Kwantung Chou, and its Kwantung Army which was later mobilized to set up the puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China.

During Japanese administration the fishing in the Kwantung leased territory was 61, 000 tonnes.

The Russians had an autonomous Army in the Far East for safeguarding their territory against the Kwantung Army.