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.
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Japan seized manchuria on 1931 September 18th
Japan invaded Manchuria in the 1930's.
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 invaded Manchuria in 1931 - before the start of World War 2.