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Kwantung

Name given by the Japanese to the territory of south Manchuria at the southern end of the Liaodong peninsula, transferred to Japan from Russia as a result of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Kwantung contained Dalian (formerly Dairen) and Lüshun (formerly Port Arthur) and was the terminus for the South Manchuria railway, which Japan also controlled. The area returned to Chinese rule after World War II.

The name is also used by the Chinese to designate the three northeast provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, which were occupied by Japan in 1932.



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One distinguishing feature of the strategic concentration and deployment of the Japanese ground army on the mainland was that originally, assault forces were landed only in Korea since the approaches to the Kwantung Peninsula were blocked by the Russian fleet.
The initial period of war: past and present by Bogdanov, S.A. / Military Thought
Japan's aging demographics also conspire against resurgent militarism--Japanese rightists will not build a new Kwantung Army out of the aging "salarymen" who constitute the country's bulging demographic middle.
The Forgotten Player by Green, Michael J. / The National Interest
Units of the Kwantung Army (in Japanese, the Kanto-gun) withdrew to a narrow defensive perimeter along the tracks of the South Manchurian Railway, while the Japanese farmers and their families in the vast Manchurian plains were left to fend for themselves in the face of rapid Soviet advances.
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism by Suleski, Ronald / Pacific Affairs
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