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This article investigated the Chinese images shaped by Japanese Manchuria-emigration from the Russo-Japanese War to founding of Manchukuo, and analyzed how Japanese empire consciousness had a effect on it, how empire consciousness proceeded with relation to Chinese images. In 19th century, The changes of Japan into the empire made the Japanese have so-called ‘empire consciousness’. Empire consciousness tries to form, maintain, reinforce the empire system ruling the different race and foreign land. Under the Portsmouth Peace Treaty in 1905, Japan obtained the right to rule over the Kwantung Leased Territory(關東州) in Manchuria. The Japanese will to dominate Manchuira gradually strengthened, and came true as the Manchurian Incident in 1931. In this way, images of the Chinese - ‘unenlightened Chinese’, ‘not knowing union, dispersed Chinese’, ‘dirty Chinese’, ‘criminal Chinese’, ‘racketeer Chinese’ - in the Manchurian Japanese eyes and empire consciousness were inseparable. In this article, images of the Chinese were closely related with a logic of dominance, logic of control, and defense mechanism. And images of the Chinese which reflected empire consciousness were widely accepted by Japanese people, which supported and rationalized invasion of Japanese imperialism. Therefore, Japan's invasion which led to the Manchurian Incident(1931) and the Sino-Japanese War(1937) was carried out not by just some politicians or military authorities, but under the public support.