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Japan , following the Mukden Incident .
The Japanese said they were attacked but it was a ruse to invade
The Mukden Incident ~ see related link below .
Japan had used an excuse a Chinese Attack on a Japanese Railway near the city of Mukden. In fact, the "Mukden incident" had been carried out by Japanese Soldiers disguised as Chinese.
In 1931, Japan invaded and occupied Manchuria.
Japan invaded Manchuria on 19 September 1931. Following the Mukden incident (staged by Japanese spies), Japan's Kwantung Army immediately invaded Manchuria and established a puppet state they names Manchuko.
Historians generally accept two incidents involving China in the 1930's with Imperial Japan. The first was the "Manchurian Incident" (Mukden Incident-near a famous Russian-Japanese battle from the 1904-1905 war) which occurred in 1931/1933, depending on your source, which entailed the destruction a railroad track in Manchuria, triggering a Japanese military response. The second incident, occurred at or near the "Marco Polo Bridge", in 1937/1939, again according to your source of information. This too, triggered a Japanese military response.
Ostensibly Japan sought to redress the wrongs that occurred during the Mukden 'Incident" where part of a railroad was dynamited but the truth was that Japanese militarists (war mongers) used this as an excuse to invade Manchuria .
The Chinese-Japanese dispute in July 1931 (the Wanpaoshan Incident) . The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
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