Significant Soil

Focusing on Japan¿s Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone in China¿s northeastern provinces, Emer O¿Dwyer traces the history of Japan¿s prewar Manchurian empire over four decades to show how South Manchuria was naturalized as a Japanese space and how this process contributed to the success of the Japanese army¿s early 1930s takeover of Manchuria.