Quickly, Japan established the puppet state of Manchukuo and by 1937, a major war with China erupted. Japan’s war with China further starved Tokyo’s war machine, which prompted it to seize ...

The question then prompted an odyssey that spanned 16 years — through the Sino-Japanese war and World War II. Some 20,000 cases full of imperial artworks were transported across China as war ...

Japan began invading China well before World War II. In 1931 they took over Manchuria and set it up as a separate country called Manchukuo that was under Japanese control. In 1937 the second Sino ...

to Imperial Japan’s invasion of China. All out war between the two Asian countries broke out in 1937, some six years after Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria. Having swept through ...