The Kwantung Army was stationed in China.
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The Japanese took over Manchuria in 1932. This was an attempt by Japan to have control over some of the land that belonged to the Chinese.
Japan established military bases in Manchuria, and maintained an Army there. Some productive raw material came from the mainland, as well as with forced labor from the inhabitants. A million man Japanese Army was stationed in Manchuria; had the Japanese known of the battles that were to be fought in the Pacific earlier, they might have transferred the bulk of those one million men to those garrisons. As it was, they only transferred SOME of them during the final months of the war...to Iwo Jima & Okinawa in 1944 & 1945.
Japanese Korean Army was created in 1904.
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the Japanese army during ww2 led by prime minister Tojo