Manchukuo was a puppet state established in large part by the Imperial Japanese Army about a century ago. Recent research has uncovered the dark side of Manchukuo and the huge influence played by ...

The series, titled “Manshu Ahen Squad” (Manchuria opium squad), is running in Shukan Young Magazine, a manga weekly published by Kodansha Ltd. The story is set in Manchukuo, Japan’s 1932 ...

Chinese Manchuria, occupied by Japan in the 1930s and 40s, left a scar on China's history. The countries’ current leaders, Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping, share ancestral connections to conflicts ...

2 takarabe toriko is one of japan’s most eminent poets. She was born in 1933, in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, and two months after her birth went with her parents to live in Manchukuo, the puppet state ...