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Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1,549 Chinese miners dead.
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Benxihu Colliery
Historic mine in Benxi, Liaoning, China
Benxihu (Honkeiko) Colliery was a coal mine in Benxi, Liaoning, China, first mined in 1905. Originally an iron and coal mining project under joint Japanese and Chinese control, the mine came under predominantly Japanese control. In the early 1930s, Japan invaded the northeast of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Manchukuo
1932–1945 Japanese puppet state in China
Manchukuo, officially known as the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of Great Manchuria thereafter, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945. It was ostensibly founded as a republic, its…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)