The Kwantung Army (Japanese: 関東軍, Kantō-gun) was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945.
The Kwantung Army was formed in 1906 as a security force for the Kwantung Leased Territory and South Manchurian Railway Zone after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 and expanded into an army group during the Interwar period to support Japanese interests in China, Manchuria, and Mongolia. The Kwantung Army became the most prestigious command in the Imperial Japanese Army, and many of its personnel won promotions to high positions in the Japanese military and civil government, including Hideki Tōjō and Seishirō Itagaki. The Kwantung Army was largely responsible for the establishment of the Japanese puppet-state of Manchukuo in Manchuria and functioned as one of the main Japanese fighting forces during the 1937–1945 Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937.
In August 1945 Soviet troops engaged the Kwantung Army during the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. The Kwantung Army surrendered to the Soviets on 16 August 1945 – the day after the Surrender of Japan – and was subsequently dissolved.
The Kwantung Army perpetrated several war crimes during World War II, sponsoring Unit 731, which both carried out acts of biological warfare and performed unethical human experimentation on civilians and Allied prisoners of war.
The KwantungArmy (Japanese: 関東軍, Kantō-gun) was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945. The KwantungArmy was formed in 1906 as...
Water Purification Department of the KwantungArmy" or "Unit 731" short. One of Ishii's main supporters inside the army was Colonel Chikahiko Koizumi, who...
Tokushu Enshū, "KwantungArmy Special Maneuvers") was an operational plan created by the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army for an invasion and...
of the KwantungArmy which was an army group of the Imperial Japanese Army of Japan. The following are commanders and units of the Japanese army which...
the Manchukuo Imperial Army who were trained at the Japanese KwantungArmy aircraft arsenal in Harbin (initially the KwantungArmy did not trust the Manchukuoans...
1929 Red Army victory shook that policy to the core and reopened the Manchurian problem. By 1930, the KwantungArmy realized they faced a Red Army that was...
The Kwantung Leased Territory (traditional Chinese and Japanese: 關東州; ; pinyin: Guāndōng zhōu; Wade–Giles: Kuan1-tung1-chou1; rōmaji: Kantō-shū) was a...
Councilors of Court Senjuro Hayashi: Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of KwantungArmy, Minister of War, member of Imperial Privy Council amongst political...
The Soviet entry into this theatre of the war and the defeat of the KwantungArmy were significant factors in the Japanese government's decision to surrender...
The Empire of Japan's KwantungArmy invaded the Manchuria region of the Republic of China on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden incident...
Imperial Japanese Army, had become too strong for even Tokyo to ignore. Puyi was portrayed as having (with a little help from the KwantungArmy) saved the people...
Soviet–Japanese border conflicts. The Red Army, with support from Mongolian forces, overwhelmed the Japanese KwantungArmy and local Chinese forces supporting...
instructions to the KwantungArmy to strengthen and fortify Manchukuo's borders with Mongolia and the Soviet Union. Additionally, the KwantungArmy, which had...
the staff of the KwantungArmy Tamaki Kumazaki deputy chief of intelligence of KwantungArmy Hiroki Nohara deputy chief of KwantungArmy Intelligence Yoshio...
Air Army were placed under the command of the KwantungArmy. At this point, the Japanese KwantungArmy numbered nearly 750,000 officers and men. It had...
United Army. The operations were carried out by the Imperial Japanese KwantungArmy and the collaborationist forces of the Manchukuo government from March...
commander of the KwantungArmy's Kempeitai (1937–1938) and later commander of Tokyo Kempeitai (1938–1940) and Eastern District Army; and notoriously General...
Railway Station that had been plotted and committed by the KwantungArmy of the Imperial Japanese Army. Zhang's death had undesirable outcomes for the Empire...
ordered KwantungArmy units to seize control of all other Manchurian cities without informing the new commander-in-chief of the KwantungArmy, General...
English as the KwantungArmy, to manage its overseas deployment in the Kwantung Territory and Manchukuo from 1906. Subsequent general armies were created...
renamed the Kwantung Leased Territory. A governor and an Imperial Japanese Army garrison were established, the latter becoming the KwantungArmy in 1919....
Unit 100 (第百部隊, dai-hyaku butai) was an Imperial Japanese Army facility called the KwantungArmy Warhorse Disease Prevention Shop that focused on the development...
throughout the Japanese government and society, notably within the KwantungArmy, a Japanese army stationed in China along the Japanese-owned South Manchuria...
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