Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, China, on the Songliao Plain. Changchun is administered as a sub-provincial city, comprising seven districts, one county and three county-l
The Kwantung Army was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945.
Changchun
…long spring" in Chinese. Between 1932 and 1945, Changchun was renamed Xinjing (Chinese: 新京; pinyin: Xīnjīng; lit. 'new capital') or Hsinking by the Kwantung Army as the capital of the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, occupying modern Northeast China. After the foundation of the People's Republic of…
Kwantung Army headquarters in Xinjing, Manchukuo
Kwantung Army on manoeuvres in 1941.
Repatriated Japanese soldiers returning from Siberia in 1946