Yukio Kasahara
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Yukio Kasahara was a leading general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Yukio Kasahara
Yukio Kasahara submitting a letter of surrender to General Lu Daoyuan
Kwantung Army
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The Kwantung Army was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945.
Yukio Kasahara
…Soviet Union posed a major threat and a major opportunity for Japan. From 1937 to 1938, Kasahara was sent to Manchukuo as Vice Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army. He visited Germany as part of a military mission in 1938 after the conclusion of the Tripartite Pact, and returned to the General Staff on his return…
Kwantung Army headquarters in Xinjing, Manchukuo
Kwantung Army on manoeuvres in 1941.
Repatriated Japanese soldiers returning from Siberia in 1946