Decryption: What kind of aggressive organization is Japan Mantetsu Co., Ltd.

The South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd. was the command center for Japan’s political, economic, military and other aggressive activities in Northeast China. When it was founded in 1906, it seized about 1,100 kilometers of railways.

Beginning in June 1907, all the seized trunk and branch lines were changed to standard gauge. First, the Anfeng Railway was re-tracked and routed. While changing the track, a railway track was built on the border between China and North Korea. Yalu River Railway Bridge.

Beginning in 1908, second line projects were built from Dalian to Changchun, Sujiatun to Fushun and other lines; at the same time, Dalian Port was expanded on a large scale.

The institution established by Japanese imperialism in Dalian, China, to carry out colonial aggression against Northeast China. It is a local agency that implements Japan's national policy, referred to as Mantetsu.

After the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Japan seized the southern section of the China Eastern Railway (Changchun to Dalian) and operated the Fushun Coal Mine from Russia in accordance with the Treaty of Portsmouth. and other privileges. The South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd. (a joint-stock company) was founded in 1906 (the 39th year of Meiji in Japan) with a total capital of 200 million yen. The Japanese government invested 100 million yen, and the other half of the shares mainly came from the Japanese royal family, nobles, and bureaucrats.

It opened in April of the following year, with its business objectives being to operate railways, develop coal mines, immigrate and develop animal husbandry. The first president was Hou Teng Xinping. The head office has a general affairs department, a survey department, a transportation department, a mining department, and a local department; the branch is located in Tokyo, with the Tokyo East Asia Economic Survey Bureau under it. It publishes publications such as Manchuria Monthly.

In April 1907, the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd. opened. After the September 18th Incident, the Manchukuo Railway transferred the administrative power of the railway affiliated areas to the puppet Manchukuo in 1932.

In 1938, Manchuria Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. transferred heavy industries such as Showa Steel Works and chemical industries to Manchuria Heavy Industries Development Co., Ltd. Since then, Manchuria Railway has concentrated its efforts on railways, coal mines and investigation and intelligence work, and actively cooperated with Japanese imperialism in launching a war of aggression against China. With the expansion of Japan's war of aggression, Manchuria Railway enterprises continued to increase and expand. By the time Japan surrendered in 1945, total assets reached 4.2 billion yen, and the number of employees increased from 11,000 at the time of establishment to 398,000.

In July 1947, the Japanese personnel of the Manchurian Railway evacuated the Northeast, and all its institutions in China were confiscated by the Chinese Communist Party.