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Japanese singer and actress Yoshiko Yamaguchi

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 9 Kyodo - Yoshiko Yamaguchi, a China-born Japanese singer and actress, sings the song "Fragrance of the Night" with piano accompaniment by composer Ryoichi Hattori as she reunites with Li Jinguang, composer of the song, for the first time in 37 years at a hotel in Tokyo on July 29, 1981. Born in Manchuria in northeast China in 1920, Yamaguchi made her debut under the name of Li Xianglan, hiding her Japanese nationality, and became popular both in China and Japan. Her real name was Yoshiko Otaka. (Kyodo) =Kyodo

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Battles of Khalkhin Gol

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 25 Kyodo - File photo taken in July 1939 shows Japanese Imperial Army soldiers crawling forward near an abandoned Soviet tank on the border between Mongolia and Manchuria during the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, undeclared Soviet-Japanese border conflicts known in Japan as the Nomonhan Incident.

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S. Korea holds memorial ceremony for independence hero

SEOUL, South Korea - A street march in Seoul on March 26, 2010, following a centennial memorial ceremony at the Seoul City Plaza for Ahn Jung Geun, a Korean independence hero who assassinated Hirobumi Ito, the first Japanese governor general of Korea, in 1909. Ahn, who fatally shot Ito on a railway platform in Harbin, in what was then Manchuria in northeastern China, in 1909, was executed by Japanese colonial authorities on March 26, 1910.

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S. Korea holds memorial ceremony for independence hero

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan delivers a speech during a centennial memorial ceremony at the Seoul City Plaza for Ahn Jung Geun, a Korean independence hero who assassinated Hirobumi Ito, the first Japanese governor general of Korea, in 1909. Ahn, who fatally shot Ito on a railway platform in Harbin, in what was then Manchuria in northeastern China, in 1909, was executed by Japanese colonial authorities on March 26, 1910.

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Group strives to keep memory of war-displaced Japanese in China

NAGANO, Japan - Sumi Karasawa, one of the thousands of Japanese settlers left behind in Manchuria in the pandemonium at the end of World War II, relates her experience in a speech at a hotel in Nagano City.

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Hirobumi Ito

Ito became Japan's first prime minister (1885-1888) under its modern cabinet system. Ito, who was the chief architect of Japan's first constitution, later served as the country's fifth (1892-1896), seventh (Jan. 12, 1898-June 30, 1898) and 10th (1900-1901) prime minister. Ito signed the Korean-Japanese Convention of 1905, which awarded Japan full control of Korea's foreign relations. Ito, who became the first Japanese resident general in Korea of 1906, was assassinated on Oct. 26 in 1909 in Harbin, Manchuria by Korean nationalist An Chung Gun. Born Sept. 2, 1841.

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Group demands Ishihara stop using 'Shina'

Members of a Hong Kong civic group hold a banner in front of the Japanese Consulate on April 15, demanding Tokyo Gov.-elect Shintaro Ishihara stop using the word ''Shina'' when referring to China. Shina, a little-used holdover from the days when Japan occupied Manchuria in northeastern China, is considered to be a derogatory way of referring to China.

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Roads rebuilt by Chinese company bring convenience to Sri Lankan villagers

STORY: Roads rebuilt by Chinese company bring convenience to Sri Lankan villagers DATELINE: March 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:26 LOCATION: Colombo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Vavuniya area 2. various of the construction work 3. SOUNDBITE (Tamil): SATHISHKUMARA NARGESHWARAN, Villager 4. various of the construction work 5. SOUNDBITE (Tamil): MANCHURIA DEVI THERUVARURAL NESAN, Principal of Maraharampalai Vinayakar Viththiyalayam School STORYLINE: A rural road reconstruction project contracted by a Chinese company in northern Sri Lanka has greatly improved local residents' travel conditions. For historical reasons, northern Sri Lanka is less developed than the rest of the country. Most of the villages in the area are connected by potholed roads. In March 2020, China State Construction Engineering Corporation began to widen and pave the roads with asphalt in the Vavuniya area in the region. Vavuniya is an area with a scattered population of around 200,000 and the total construction length of the

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The Children Of Huang Shi (2008)

Chow Yun-Fat Film: The Children Of Huang Shi (2008) Director: Roger Spottiswoode 08 February 2008 Date: 08 February 2008

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Memorial at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China

Port Arthur, Manchuria, China -- memorial of naval guns and mines from the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Date: circa 1908

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1937 Leipziger Nachrichten (Germany) Bombing of Nanking

1937 Leipziger Nachrichten front page (Germany) Bombing of Nanking Date: 1937

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South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang, China

South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang (formerly Mukden), China. With the region under Japanese control following victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Japanese settlers were encouraged through the construction of schools, libraries, hospitals and public utilities. The South Manchuria Railway Company (Mantetsu) - was a company founded in the Empire of Japan in 1906, taken over after the Russo-Japanese War, and operated within China in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. The railway itself ran from Lushun Port (Port Arthur) at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula to Harbin, where it connected to the Chinese Eastern Railway. Date: circa 1920s

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1945 Daily Mail VJ Day celebrations in London

1945 Daily Mail front page reporting VJ Day celebrations in London and Russia continue fighting Japanese troops in Manchuria Date: 16th August 1945

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The Ultimatum

Japan: If you go on saying I'm naughty, I shall leave the class. Cartoon showing the League Of Nations as a teacher with Lytton Report on the blackboard, and Japan as an insubordinate student. Date: 1932

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Russo-Japanese War - tussle over the map

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Artillery - Guns going into action Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - tussle over the map

'Who Gets Keeps' - Russo-Japanese War - Russia and Japan tussle over the territories of Korea and Manchuria Date: circa 1904

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Russo-Japanese War - The Capture of Port Arthur - Jan 1905

Russo-Japanese War - The Japanese Capture of Port Arthur - January 1905. Date: 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Artillery in action - Hilltop

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Artillery in action - Hilltop position. Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - General Kuroki inspecting captured guns

Russo-Japanese War - Count Tamemoto Kuroki GCMG (18441923) General in the Imperial Japanese Army, inspecting captured Russian guns. Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Japanese marching behind screens

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese marching behind artificial screens to hide their movements. Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Howitzers disguised by Wooden Screens

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Howitzers disguised by Wooden Camouflaged Screens. Date: 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Landing Stage at Chemulpo

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Landing Stage at Chemulpo (now Incheon, Korea) erected in only eight hours to a state whereupon it could be used to unload heavy transport. Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Japanese marking Chinese Coolies

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese marking Chinese Coolies for Identification. Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army Wintering near Shaho

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army Wintering near the Shaho River along the MukdenPort Arthur spur of the China Far East Railway north of Liaoyang, Manchuria. Surrounded by illustrations of some of the supplies required by the troops! Date: 1904

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Russo-Japanese War - Bringing up shells for the field guns

Russo-Japanese War - Bringing up shells for the field guns. Date: circa 1905

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A Gateway in Outer Manchuria - Russo-Japanese War period

A Gateway in Outer Manchuria - Russo-Japanese War period - likely to still have been under Russian control at this stage (only fell under Japanese influence after the 1917 Revolution). Date: 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - 3rd Army Division at Battle of Shaho

Japanese Commander and his staff of the Third Army at the Battle of Shaho (Saka no kaisen) - the second large-scale land battle of the Russo-Japanese War fought along a 37-mile front centred at the Shaho River along the Mukden Port Arthur spur of the China Far East Railway north of Liaoyang, Manchuria. Date: 1904

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Yakov Zhilinski, Chief of Staff of the Imperial Russian Army

Yakov Zhilinski (Zhilinskiy) (18531918), Chief of Staff of the Imperial Russian Army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, Governor-General of Warsaw, and Chief of Staff of all Russian forces until 1914. Thereafter a field commander during the first year of World War I until he was relieved of command. Date: circa 1905

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Japanese surrender at Mukden

A scene at Mukden Airfield during the Japanese surrender to Soviet troops following their invasion of Manchuria, northern China. Japanese troops gather together arms and munitions for surrender. Date: August 1945

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Red Cross Tents at Mukden - Russo-Japanese War

Red Cross Tents at Mukden - the last major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought from 20th February to 10th March 1905 between Japan and Russia near Mukden in Manchuria. The city is now called Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province in China. Date: 1905

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Japanese surrender at Mukden

Soviet troops receive arms and munitions surrendered by units of the 63rd Division of the Kwantung Army of Japan at Mukden, Manchuria Date: August 1945

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Russian Gufire During the Battle of Port Arthur

Russian artilery in action during the Battle of Port Arthur which spanned from the 8th to the 9th of February in 1904. The Battle of Port Arther was the very first conflict within the Russo-Japanese War. Date: February 1904

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Japanese Military leaders st Shenyang, Manchuria

The Heads of the Japanese Military at the headquarters of their 'Manchurian Armies' at Mukden (now Shenyang), Manchuria following the end of the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905). Following the Japanese victory, the Japanese concession at Mukden was one of the chief bases for Japanese economic expansion into southern Manchuria. Date: circa 1905

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China - Dalian City

Dalian, China. The settlement was occupied by the British in 1858, returned to the Chinese in the 1880s, and then occupied by Japan in 1895 during the first Sino-Japanese War. With the unconditional surrender of Japan at the end of the Second World War, Dalian, passed to the Soviet Union, who had liberated the city in advance of the end of hostilities and governed the city until 1950, when the city was presented to the Chinese Communist government without any compensation. Date: circa 1910

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Russian battleship, the Petropavlovsk

The Russian battleship, the Petropavlovsk, launched in 1894, sunk by a mine off Port Arthur, Manchuria, in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War. Date: early 20th century

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Victor Bulla ,special correspondent

Victor Bulla of St. Petersburg, one of the special correspondents of The Sphere and The Tatler, who gained permission to accompany the invading Russian forces en route to Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese war. Date: 1904

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The Mikado of Japan, 1904

Mutsuhito (1852 - 1912), also known as Meiji, Emperor of Japan, in the uniform of Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army and seated upon a charger which stands over Manchuria, Mongolia and Formosa (the latter gained by the Japanese after the war of 1895). Illustration published shortly before the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904

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Changchun - Russian and Japanese trains

Manchuria - Russian and Japanese trains in the Station at Changchun, the first station of the Japanese South Manchuria Railway, during the period of Japanese occupation of Manchuria after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. A special Russo-Japanese agreement of 1907 provided that Russian gauge tracks would continue from the 'Russian' Kuancheng Station to the 'Japanese' Changchun Station, and vice versa, tracks on the 'gauge adapted by the South Manchuria Railway' (i.e. the standard gauge) would continue from the Changchun Station to the Kuancheng Station !!! Date: circa 1906

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Russo-Japanese War - Battle of Feng Huang Cheng

Japanese troops occupied the town of Feng-Huang-Cheng (now Phoenix Town in the Hunan Province), Manchuria, (part of the Eastern Chinese Empire) virtually unopposed on 5th May 1904 Date: 1904

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Cartoon impression of the Russo-Japanese War 4 of 5

Card 4 of 5 - 'Intervention'. A cartoon interpretation of the Russo-Japanese war, acted out by the principal ruling individuals from the International Community. The Russo-Japanese War was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. Japan inflicted a series of stunning defeats on the Russian Navy, principally at Tsushima in May 1905. In this fourth card, Tsar Nicholas II and the Japanese Emperor Meiji are forcibly pulled apart by the rulers of the International community supporting each of their causes. For the Russians this includes the French, for the Japanese, the British and Italians. Date: 1905

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Cartoon impression of the Russo-Japanese War 3 of 5

Card 3 of 5 - 'The Wrestlers'. A cartoon interpretation of the Russo-Japanese war, acted out by the principal ruling individuals from the International Community. The Russo-Japanese War was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. Japan inflicted a series of stunning defeats on the Russian Navy, principally at Tsushima in May 1905. In this third card, Tsar Nicholas II and the Japanese Emperor wrestle with each other whilst the International community watches on, forming up behind the side they are supporting. Date: 1905

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Cartoon impression of the Russo-Japanese War 2 of 5

Card 2 of 5 - 'The Attack'. A cartoon interpretation of the Russo-Japanese war, acted out by the principal ruling individuals from the International Community. The Russo-Japanese War was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. Japan inflicted a series of stunning defeats on the Russian Navy, principally at Tsushima in May 1905. In this second card, Tsar Nicolas II is surprised by an attack by the Japanese Emperor Meiji, whilst the International community (still standing quite far back from proceedings) show a mixture of delight and alarm depending on their support for either side. Date: 1905

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Cartoon impression of the Russo-Japanese War 1 of 5

Card 1 of 5 - 'Preliminaries'. A cartoon interpretation of the Russo-Japanese war, acted out by the principal ruling individuals from the International Community. The War was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. Japan inflicted a series of stunning defeats on the Russian Navy, principally at Tsushima in May 1905. In this first card, Tsar Nicolas II and the Japanese Emperor Meiji trade insults and spit at each other whilst the International community stands quite far back from proceedings. Date: 1905

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RUS-JAP WAR REPORTED

RUSSIA-JAPAN WAR : war correspondents of 'Le petit Journal' and other papers, in Manchuria Date: 1904

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RUS-JAP WAR REPORTED 2

RUSSIA-JAPAN WAR : the war correspondent of 'Le petit Journal' exposes himself to enemy fire as he watches from the Japanese lines in Manchuria Date: 1905

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