Lytton Report

Lytton Reportリットン報告書, are a findings of the Lytton Commission, entrusted in 1931 by the League of Nations in an try to evaluate the Mukden Incident, which led to the Empire of Japan's seizure of Manchuria.

The five-member commission headed by British politician The Earl of Lytton announced its conclusions on October 1932. It stated that Japan was the aggressor, had wrongfully invaded Manchuria as well as that it should be indicated to the Chinese. It also argued that the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo should non be recognized, as well as recommended Manchurian autonomy under Chinese sovereignty. The League of Nations General Assembly adopted the report, & Japan quit the League. The recommendations went into effect after Japan surrendered in 1945.

Lytton Report

The Lytton version contained an account of the situation in Manchuria before September 1931, when the Mukden Incident took place as the Japanese army without authorization from the Japanese government seized the large Chinese province of Manchuria. The Report spoke the unsatisfactory qualifications of the Chinese administration and giving weight to the various claims and complaints of Japan. It then proceeded with a narrative of the events in Manchuria subsequent to September 18, 1931, based on the evidence of many participants and on that of eyewitnesses. It devoted specific attention to the origins and coding of the State of Manchukuo, which had already been proclaimed by the time the Commission reached Manchuria. It also covered the question of the economic interests of Japan both in Manchuria and China as a whole, and the category and effects of the Chinese anti-Japanese boycott. Soviet Union interests in the region were also mentioned. Finally, the Commission submission a inspect of the conditions to which, in its judgment, any satisfactory total should conform, and filed various proposals and suggestions as to how an agreement embodying these principles might be brought about.

However, the relation did not directly source one of its chief goals: the pretend of the Mukden Incident. Instead, it simply stated the Japanese position that the Chinese had been responsible,  with noas to the truth or falsity of the Japanese claims. Although there was no doubt as to Japan's guilt among the five commission members, Claudel the French delegate insisted that Japan not be portrayed as the aggressor.

In spite of care to preserve impartiality between the conflicting views of China and Japan, the case of the Report was regarded as a substantial vindication of the Chinese case on almost fundamental issues. In particular, the Commission stated that the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army following on the Mukden incident could not be regarded as legitimate self-defence. Regarding Manchukuo, the Report concluded that the new State could not hold been formed without the presence of Japanese troops; that it had no general Chinese support; and that it was not factor of a genuine and spontaneous independent movement. Still, the report held that both China and Japan had legitimate grievances. Japan, it states, took expediency of questionable rights, and China obstructed by the representative of her undoubted rights. The Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "The report, which was approved unanimously, proposes that China and Japan shall be condition three months in which to accept or reject the recommendations. it is hoped that the parties will agree to direct negotiations."

The "Daily Telegraph" French correspondent says: "The report insists on the withdrawal of Japanese troops within the South Manchuria railway zone, and recommends the defining of an organisation under the sovereignty of China to deal with conditions in Manchuria, taking due account of the rights and interests of Japan, and the order of a committee of negotiation for the a formal request to be considered for a position or to be enables to do or have something. of these and other recommendations."