";s:4:"text";s:3926:" Japanese Special Studies on Manchuria. To guard all of its investments, Japan kept a large army in southern Manchuria.The 1929 Depression hit Japan hard. The What was the background behind this attack and the Just one week before Japan invaded Manchuria, Viscount Cecil, Britain’s chief representative at the “I do not think there is the slightest prospect of any war.”Japan was becoming increasingly crowded due to its limited size as a nation and its rapidly increasing population. Since 1983, the operation has sometimes been called Although the commencement of the invasion fell between the American Though the battle extended beyond the borders traditionally known as On 9 May 1945 (Moscow time), Germany surrendered, meaning that if the Soviets were to honour the Yalta agreement, they would need to enter war with Japan by 9 August 1945. The Soviet Union declared war and launched a broad surprise attack on Japanese forces in Manchuria. ed)", Routledge, 2002, p. 318.World War II Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation The control of these regions by communist governments backed by Soviet authorities would be a factor in the rise of the Chinese Communists and shape the political conflict of the Several thousand Japanese who were sent as colonizers to Manchukuo and Inner Mongolia were left behind in China. The operation was carried out as a classic double pincer movement over an area the size of the entire Japanese communication infrastructure was poor, and the Japanese lost communication with forward units very early on. It was also believed in Japan that Manchuria was rich in minerals, forestry and rich agricultural land. The report was accepted and approved by the An issue so far from Europe was not likely to attract the whole-hearted support of the major European powers in the League – Britain and France.The affair had indicated that Britain was more concerned with her territories in the Far East than in the maintenance of law and order.Other powers would almost certainly see this episode as a sign that they too could get away with the use of force The voices of senior army generals were heard and they argued for a campaign to win new colonies abroad so that the industries there could be exploited for Japan. pg.221Sheldon H. Harris, "Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932–1945, and the American Cover-up (rev. In 1932, the Japanese army invaded Manchuria and threw out … In the 1930s there was a world-wide economic depression. Vol. Describe Japan’s invasion of Manchuria (1931–3) an d what the League of Nations did about it. After the war the Japanese forced Korea's emperor to annul his government's recent agreements with Russia and to sign an alliance with Japan.