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Kwantung

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Kwan·tung  (kwäntng, gwändng)
A former coastal territory of northeast China in southern Manchuria. It was leased to Russia in 1898, controlled by Japan from 1905 to 1945, and leased to Russia again from 1945 until 1955, when it was returned to China.
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Besides kamikazes, redeployed Kwantung divisions and bamboo spears for civilians, the allies faced biological warfare.
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After his assassination, Japan's Kwantung army captured the Manchurian capital at Mukden, and extended their control to the whole of Manchuria.
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53) One author observed: The Japanese forces in China, it seemed, were suffering from what was sometimes called the Kwantung Army disease.
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