Japan’s victory in the war resulted in Russia relinquishing its lease of Port Arthur, but Japan’s control over southern Manchuria and Korea was recognized. After World War II, the Soviet Union ...

Manchuria’s industry is destroyed; it was apparently the Soviet Union’s dual desire to rebuild Russia’s own factories with Manchurian equipment, and to weaken China on her Asiatic flank.

To pile the onus for a prospective war still higher on Japan Karl Radek, No. 1 Soviet journalist and propagandist, wrote for Izvestia: “Having seized Manchuria and improved railroad ...

Having conquered Manchuria and Inner or Chinese, Mongolia, Japan soon turned her eyes to other possible spheres of expansion. The closet at hand was Soviet Mongolia, and Japan has consquently ...

Manchuria was also the site of Sugihara's first assignments after finishing his diplomatic training. As deputy consul, he negotiated with the Soviet Union to win control of the Manchurian Railroad ...

This meant that the Japanese forces in China and Manchuria would not attack the Soviet Far East, but Stalin needed to be certain in the autumn of 1941 when Hitler’s divisions were advancing ...