Word: manchukuo
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...touched. In all the South Pacific theater and in Burma, not more than three or four Jap divisions are in immediate contact with Allied troops. Probably not more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers have been knocked out. The Japs still have almost 3,500,000-about 750,000 in Manchukuo, 800,000 in China, perhaps 100,000 in Indo-China, Malaya and Thailand, more than 75,000 in Burma, perhaps 90,000 in the southern islands, and all the rest in "depot" divisions in Formosa and Japan...
...Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang. He sulked in Manchuria and tried a new bargain-this time with the Japanese. For that he earned the premiership of Manchukuo...
...pamphlet also quotes Japanese as advocating a "uniform system of education for Japan, Korea, 'Manchukuo' and North China" and "Japanese as the language of East Asia." This language program is already in force in the Philippines, though it lags due to a shortage of instructors who can speak both Japanese and Filipino...
Textbooks have been revised in accordance with Jap ideas on history, politics and ethics. Though some students and teachers have been arrested and tortured, "educators are ever being offered trips to Japan and 'Manchukuo' to see how the 'Friendly Neighbor' does things and to understand her intentions towards China...
...last January. Wu-wooers were relieved: they had feared that a fabulously Asiatic career had ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, onetime overlord of Manchuria. 4) to the position of No. 1 cinestar in China, 5) to Episcopalian marriage to wealthy Christian Vintner Eugene Penn of Shanghai...