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South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang, China

South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang (formerly Mukden), China. With the region under Japanese control following victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Japanese settlers were encouraged through the construction of schools, libraries, hospitals and public utilities. The South Manchuria Railway Company (Mantetsu) - was a company founded in the Empire of Japan in 1906, taken over after the Russo-Japanese War, and operated within China in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. The railway itself ran from Lushun Port (Port Arthur) at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula to Harbin, where it connected to the Chinese Eastern Railway. Date: circa 1920s

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Field Marshal Marquis Oyama Iwao, Japanese soldier, Mukden, Manchuria, 1906. Artist: Underwood & Underwood

Field Marshal Marquis Oyama Iwao, Japanese soldier, Mukden, Manchuria, 1906. Detail from a stereoscopic card. Japan was leased the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria as one of the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, in which Oyama (1842-1916) commanded Japan's land forces. Today Mukden is the Chinese city of Shenyang

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