Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"While this engagement is little known in the West, it played an important part in subsequent Japanese conduct in World War II. . . . The battle was the first victory for the soon-to-be-famous Soviet general Georgy Zhukov . . . Zhukov himself was promoted and transferred west to the Kiev district. The battle experience gained by Zhukov was put to good use in December 1941 at the Battle of Moscow. Zhukov was able to use this experience to launch the first successful Soviet counteroffensive against the German invasion of 1941." [Wikipedia] "Before the battle, the army had been dominant and favored a policy of northern expansion. Now the Japanese navy gained the upper hand. Rather than advocating attacking on the Asian mainland, the navy urged a policy of southern expansion, in which the targets for Japanese imperialism would include the resource-rich regions of the Dutch East Indies, French Indochina, and the Philippines." [Aldrete: Decisive Battles]