The South Manchuria Railway Company (Japanese: 満鉄）; Mantetsu) was a company founded by Japan in 1906, after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), and operated in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. From 1906 or 1910 until 1925, the company also operated the Koreanrailway system.
The company developed soy beans and mineral resources and brought them to Japan partly by its railway. It also built hotels, schools, libraries, etc., for Japanese immigrants. It closed by order of GHQ, and was taken over by the Soviet army in 1945.
The Southern branch known in the West as the SouthManchurianRailway became the locus and partial casus belli for several wars— The Russo-Japanese War and Second Sino-Japanese War (Including 'incidents' leading up to this later from 1927).
The ManchurianRailway was a single tracked line extending (and shortening) the famous world's longest railroad, the Trans-Siberian Railway from the Siberian city of Chita via Harbin across northern inner Manchuria to the Russian port of Vladivostok.
The ManchurianRailway was essentially completed in 1902, beating the stretch around Lake Baikal, by fourteen years.
The SouthManchuriaRailway Company (Japanese: 南満州鉄道株式会社 Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha; abbreviated as 満鉄 Mantetsu) was a company founded by Japan in 1906, after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), and operated in Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
From 1906 or 1910 until 1925, the company also operated the Korean railway system.
The SouthManchuriaRailway was also charged with a government-like role in Manchuria.
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