All Manchuria was Japan's last week. Harbin, ... General Ting Chao fought a 17-hour battle which Harbin’s shivering but fascinated inhabitants watched from their roofs.

THE incident which occurred in Manchuria during the night of September 18 set in motion a train of events of great magnitude. The incident itself was unimportant: a gunmen's fight in New York or a ...

In 1931, Japan seized Manchuria, a resource-rich region in Northeast Asia, and established a 3,000-mile disputed zone between its occupied territory and the Soviet Union.

In Manchuria a few bold Chinese celebrated the ascension of Henry VIII by starting seven fires in the Japanese quarter of Mukden, attacking General Honjo’s special train which repulsed them with ...

This 1930s footage of Manchuria China offers a window into daily life, rituals, and industrial progress in an urban setting. It begins with bustling city streets, storefronts, and buildings ...

RAILWAYS have been the chief means by which both Japan and Russia have striven to establish special positions in eastern Asia. The economic and strategic frontier of the Japanese sphere of influence ...

A 1904 print shows sailors from the Japanese torpedo boat, Sazanami, boarding a Russian torpedo boat during a sea battle off Port Arthur, Manchuria, during the Russo-Japanese war. (Ryōzō Tanaka ...