Many moved south to Shanghai after the Japanese took Manchuria in the early 1930s.

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In 1959, a vast new oil field in the grasslands of northeast China, in Manchuria, was discovered.

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He says he grew up poor in a small Koreatown in rural Manchuria.

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Several high-rises are topped with domes and steeples in a nod to the Russian influence on the northeastern region known as Manchuria.

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In Manchuria, he and the other homesteaders were given some farming implements and small arms, and together they started cultivating the land.

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He was working as a liquor-store deliveryman in Asakusa when he bumped into his old friend the official he had known in Manchuria.

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One example: the hardy folk from the Greek island of Kefalonia who migrated, after 1900, to Manchuria, where they flourished in the liquor and property business.

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And for years, much of the hair that people all around the world have used has been from Mongolia, Manchuria, Siberia, sometimes northern Poland, places like that, where the hair is very coarse.

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The South Korean giant, which began in 1938 as an exporter of vegetables and dried fish to Manchuria, showed off 4K TVs, OLED TVs, tools for video search, and phalanxes of smart phones.

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