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That's the Expl World War interview.

This time I'm joined by Quinn Cho from Pacific Atrocities Education, which is dedicated to raising awareness about the atrocities committed

in the Asia Pacific Theater during the Second World War. Quin is an archivist at Pacific

Atrocities Education and is the author of competing empires in Burma, a chronicle of the

China, Burma, India Theater of Operations in World War II, and an upcoming book, The Rise of

the Quantong army, Japan's Empire in

Manchuria to 1932, which will be our primary topic of discussion today.

Quinn, thank you for joining us here today. How's it going? It's going well, thank you.

Excellent. So let's just jump right into it. Your upcoming book really deals with kind of the

origins of the Qantong army. So could you with kind of the origins of the Quantong

Tang Army. So could you talk a little bit about how the Quantang Army sort of was created and

kind of what its initial goals were? Yeah. So the Quantung Army was actually, or what became the

Quantongong army was formed in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese war in 1906.

It was initially called the Quantum garrison. It consisted of one division and six

independent Railway Guards battalions, and it was primarily formed to defend the Liaodong Peninsula, which Japan had got hold of through the

Treaty of Portsmouth in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, and also the South Manchuria Railway,

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