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The Report of the Commission of Enquiry, commonly referred to as the Lytton Report (リットン報告書, Ritton Hōkokusho) refers to the findings of the Lytton Commission, entrusted in 1931 by the League of Nations in an attempt to evaluate the Mukden Incident, which was used to justify the Empire of Japan's seizure of Manchuria.
Japanese soldiers of 29th Regiment on the Mukden West Gate. A minor dispute known as the Wanpaoshan incident between Chinese and Korean farmers occurred on July 1, 1931. The issue was highly sensationalized in the Imperial Japanese and Korean press, and used for considerable propaganda effect to increase anti-Chinese sentiment in the Empire of Japan.
The Mukden incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria. [3] [4] [5]On September 18, 1931, Lieutenant Suemori Kawamoto of the Independent Garrison Unit [] of the 29th Japanese Infantry Regiment [] detonated a small quantity of dynamite [6] close to a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near ...
The Chinese first defensive line, 20 miles north of the city, was a series of trenches aimed to stop the Japanese advance at the Taling River Bridge on the Peiping-Mukden Railway. The Chinese had a second line of earthworks and entrenchments completely encircling Jinzhou to fall back on if the Japanese forces broke through the first line.
The recent assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan follows two assassination attempts on president elect Donald Trump over the summer. In the July attempt on Trump’s ...
After the Mukden Incident of September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army invaded Manchuria and, by February 1932, it had captured the entire region. The last emperor of the Qing dynasty, Puyi, who was living in exile in the Foreign Concessions in Tianjin, was convinced by the Japanese to accept the throne of the new Empire of Manchukuo, which remained under the control of the Imperial ...
Two duck hunters scouting a wooded area in rural North Carolina ended up finding human remains, authorities said Tuesday, in the latest grim discovery made by hunters in recent months.
The Minsaengdan incident, or Min-Sheng-T'uan Incident, was a series of purges occurring between 1933 and 1936 in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) arrested, expelled, and killed Koreans in Manchuria, based on the suspicion that the purged Koreans were supporting the Japanese occupiers as part of the pro-Japanese and anti-communist group, Minsaengdan.