The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations", are by Ja
First US edition cover
Manchukuo
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Manchukuo or Manchoukuo was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Manchuria that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945. It was ostensibly founded as a republic, its territory consisting o
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
…most of their sessions retelling the same story of his experience in the Kwantung Army in the lost tank battle with the Russians at Nomonhan on the Manchukuo-Russian border during World War II.) Toru meets the mysterious Malta Kano at a busy hotel restaurant, and she tasks her sister Creta Kano to further…
Pu Yi, Qing dynasty, China, Last emperor
The Japan–Manchukuo Protocol signed on 15 September 1932
Throne of the Emperor of Manchukuo
Puyi (regnal name "Kangde") as emperor of Manchukuo