Japanese schoolboy stabbed to death by Chinese man on anniversary of 1931 invasion - A 44-year-old suspect has been arrested ...

The Mukden Incident of 1931 - commemorated in China every year as an act of Japanese aggression - saw Japanese troops blow up a railway in northeastern China as an excuse to take over Manchuria.

Chinese historians generally refer to the Mukden incident on September 18, 1931, as the first chapter in the Japanese invasion of China. On that day, a bomb blast destroyed a railway line near ...

Consul General Angus Ward hurried from a Communist people’s court in Mukden, Manchuria last week to telephone the news to the nearest American diplomat, 400 miles away in Peiping. Ward and four ...

On the 81st anniversary of the Manchurian incident and amid the renewed dispute over the Diaoyu / Senkaku islands, anti-Japan protests continued in China. On September 18, 1931 Japan claimed that ...

18. The case had resulted in diplomatic tensions, as Sept. 18 is the anniversary of the Mukden Incident of 1931, in which an explosion destroyed a portion of a Japanese-owned railway track near ...