The Bank began operations in Japan in 1924,[51] in Australia during the later part of the nineteenth century,[52] and in Indonesia during the early 1920s.[53] An office of the Equitable Eastern Banking Corporation (one of J.P. Morgan's predecessors) opened a branch in China in 1921 and Chase National Bank was established there in 1923.[54] The bank has operated in Saudi Arabia[55] and India[56] since the 1930s. Chase Manhattan Bank opened an office in Korea in 1967.[57] The firm's presence in Greece dates to 1968.[58] An office of JPMorgan was opened in Taiwan in 1970,[59] in Russia (Soviet Union) in 1973,[60] and Nordic operations began during the same year.[61] Operations in Poland began in 1995.[58]