Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yankin shine mahaifar Manchus, gami da sarakunan daular Qing. A cikin 1931, Japan ta kwace yankin bayan Rikicin Mukden. An kafa gwamnatin da ke goyon bayan Jafananci shekara guda bayan haka tare da Puyi, sarki na Qing na ƙarshe, a matsayin mai mulki da kuma sarki na gaba. Gwamnatin Manchukuo ta rushe a 1945 bayan mika wuya na Imperial Japan
a karshen yakin duniya na biyu. Yankunan da Manchukuo ya yi da'awar an fara kama su ne a mamayewar Soviet na Manchuria a watan Agusta 1945, sannan a hukumance aka mayar da su ga gwamnatin kasar Sin a shekara mai zuwa.