What was the Kwantung Army?

BRY2K

The Kwantung Army was an army group of the Imperial Japanese Army in the early twentieth century. It became the largest and most prestigious command in the IJA. Many of its personnel, such as Chief of Staff Hideki Tojo, were promoted to high positions in both the military and civil government in the Empire of Japan and it was largely responsible for the creation of the Japanese-dominated Empire of Manchukuo. Some members of the World War II leadership of the Kwantung Army were sentenced as war criminals by the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, where other were taken into custody by the United States, and sentenced at the 1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. Among those sentenced to death were former generals Seishiro Itagaki, Iwane Matsui, Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo and Akira Muto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwantung_Army Jun 01 08, 1:45 PM

jimmycarlos

A very formidable Infantry brigade active through 1906-1945, fighting in many Japanese wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwantung_Army Jun 01 08, 1:45 PM