Explore: Kwantung Leased Territory

The Kwantung Leased Territory (traditional Chinese and Japanese: 關東州; ; pinyin: Guāndōng zhōu; Wade–Giles: Kuan1-tung1-chou1; rōmaji: Kantō-shū) was a

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

the New Territories (comprising areas north of Kowloon along with 230 small islands) were leased from China for 99 years as a leased territory under the

renovated street was inaugurated on 1 October 2000. Kwantung Leased Territory Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory From 12 August 1903, also Viceroy (Namestnik)

Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, Japan occupied the area as the Kwantung Leased Territory and renamed the city Dairen (Japanese: 大連/だいれん), which is the

Japanese-occupied Northern China. From September 1939 he was commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, which was likewise acting as a garrison force in Manchukuo. He was

northern half of the Korean peninsula as well. The rapid defeat of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, along with the recent atomic bombing of Hiroshima and

the Liaodong Peninsula leased territory which was transferred to Japan, which was to administer it as the Kwantung Leased Territory. After Japan lost World

city of Dalian, continued to be ruled directly by Japan as the Kwantung Leased Territory until the end of the war. The state was ultimately toppled at

Empire of Japan), awarded it Russia's lease on the Liaodong Peninsula (which became the Kwantung Leased Territory), control of the Russian-built South