On September 18, 1931, the explosion of the Japanese-owned railway track near the city of Mukden, Manchuria in northeastern China, marked the beginning of a full-scale Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

One of the most potent excuses for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria was the need of protection and stable government in a bandit-infested land. Last week, 20 months after the first Japanese ...

he condemned the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in terms far stronger than the rest of the diplomatic world was prepared then to accept. As Secretary of War he has personally been guilty of no ...

which started a chain of events that led to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Related Chinese man gets death sentence in deadly knife attack that injured two Japanese nationals China executes 2 ...

China has executed a man for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, the Japanese embassy in China has told the BBC. Zhong Changchun was sentenced to death in January for attacking ...

Online commentators have noted the killing happened on a politically sensitive date – 18 September, which is the anniversary of an incident that led to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in ...