In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world\'s population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism.
From just two nation states with real sovereignty, Thailand and Japan, and two with compromised sovereignty, China and Mongolia, the region today encompasses at least.
Japan\'s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people.
In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world\'s population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism