The Battle of Hong Kong
In a quest for dominance of eastern Asia and access to the region’s labour, oil and other resources, the armies of Imperial Japan had waged a war with Imperial Russia in 1905 and won, annexed Korea in 1910, and conquered the Manchuria area of northeast China in 1931.
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