Kwangtung Leasehold/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Kwangtung Leasehold.

An area of southern Manchuria, controlled by Japan under a 99-year lease obtained in 1915, which was the base of Japanese strength on the Asian continent before World War Two in the Pacific.