Mukden incident

When

18 Sep 1931

Kind

Event

Coordinates

41.83° N, 123.47° E

Description

The Japanese military stages the Mukden Incident, an explosion blamed on Chinese dissidents and used as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Mukden incident.

1931 Japan false flag railway explosion

The Mukden incident was a 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 Unit of the 29th Japanese Infantry Regiment detonated a small quantity of dynamite close to a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near Mukden.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “incident de Liutianghu (les soldats chinois auraient saboté la voie ferrée et tiré sur les Japonais ; c’est en fait un coup monté)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “японская армия при поддержке морской авиации начала наступление на Мукден и другие стратегические центры Маньчжурии, начало оккупации Маньчжурии”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en China, tiene lugar el Incidente de Mukden, un ataque de falsa bandera por el ejército japonés a espaldas de su gobierno”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日本關東軍進攻瀋陽，九一八事變爆發。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “柳条湖事件（満州事変勃発）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page