In the 1930s and 1940s, Japan seemed intent on colonising all of Asia. When the Japanese Kwantung Army (also known as the Guandong Army) invaded Manchuria on the 18th of September 1931, it unleashed a series of invasions and massacres which added numerous lands and islands to Japan’s colony. Korea was already under its control, but it added Manchuria, coastal China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, New Guinea, Brunei, Taiwan, and many smaller islands. |