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The Kwantung Leased Territory (Chinese: 关东州, Guandongzhou, Japanese: 関東州; Kantoushu). Kwantung originally meant "east of Shanhaiguan", i.e. the Northeast Region in China.After the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894- 1895), the Russian Empire leased the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula from the Qing Empire in 1895. The Russians built Port Arthur and Dalny which is modern Dalian.
Due to the Portsmouth Treaty ( 1905) resulting from the Russo-Japanese War, Japan replaced Russia, leasing the area as well as the regions adjacent to the South Manchurian Railway in 1905. Japan established the Kwantung governor-general to administer the newly leased territory and the Kwantung garrison, reorganized in 1919Events January January 1 Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 Spartacist uprising Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution with Spartacist League in the forefront January 9 Spartacus under the name of the Kwantung ArmyThe Kwantung Army or Guandong Army ( Japanese: Kantogun) was a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that originated from a Guandong garrison established in 1906 to defend the Kwantung Leased Territory and the areas adjacent to the South Manchurian Railway., to defend it. A large amount of investment was concentrated in Dalian, the capital of the territory. One of the most famous Japanese corporations, the South Manchurian Railway, was headquartered in Dalian. Approximately 100,000 Japanese nationals lived in the city in 1930.
After the foundation of Manchuguo in 1932, Japan regarded that the sovereignty of the leased territory was transfered from China to Manchuguo. A new lease agreement was contracted between Japan and the puppet governmentPuppet government or puppet regime are derogatory terms for a government which though notionally of the same culture as the governed people owes its existence (or other major debt) to being installed, supported or controlled by a more powerful entity, typ of Manchuguo, and Japan retained the territory apart from the nominally independent Manchuguo until the defeat of the World War Two in 1945Events January January 5 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 World War II:.
See also: ManchuriaManchuria and Northeast China are names for a region (ca. 1,550,000 km2) in Northeast Asia which is today the northeast part of People's Republic of China. Manchuria was the traditional homeland of peoples such as the Xianbei, the Khitans, the Jurchen, an
