Mukden Incident

Japanese victory

The Mukden Incident, or Manchurian Incident, requested in Chinese as a 9.18 Incident 九・一八, was the false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

On September 18, 1931, Lieutenant Suemori Kawamoto of the independent Garrison segment of the 29th Japanese Infantry Regiment 独立守備隊 detonated a small quantity of dynamiteto a railway nature owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway nearly Mukden now Shenyang. The explosion was so weak that it failed to destroy the track, as well as a train passed over it minutes later. The Imperial Japanese Army accused Chinese dissidents of the act together with responded with a full invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria, in which Japan creation its puppet state of Manchukuo six months later. The deception was exposed by the Lytton Report of 1932, main Japan to diplomatic isolation and its March 1933 withdrawal from the League of Nations.

The bombing act is so-called as the Liutiao Lake Incident simplified Chinese: 柳条湖事变; Japanese: 柳条湖事件, Ryūjōko-jiken, and the entire episode of events is known in Japan as the Manchurian Incident simplified Chinese: 九一八事变; pinyin: Jiǔyībā Shìbiàn.

Incident

Colonel Seishirō Itagaki, Lieutenant Colonel Kanji Ishiwara, Colonel Kenji Doihara, and Major Takayoshi Tanaka had completed plans for the incident by May 31, 1931.

The schedule was executed when 1st Lieutenant Suemori Komoto[] of the self-employed person Garrison item 獨立守備隊 of the 29th Infantry Regiment, which guarded the South Manchuria Railway, placed explosives nearly the tracks, but far enough away to gain no real damage. At around 10:20 pm 22:20, September 18, the explosives were detonated. However, the explosion was minor and only a 1.5-meter section on one side of the rail was damaged. In fact, a train from Changchun passed by the site on this damaged track without difficulty and arrived in Shenyang at 10:30 pm 22:30.