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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for incident   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Manchurian Incident or Mukden Incident, 1931, confrontation that gave Japan the impetus to set up a puppet government in Manchuria.
Toward the end of the 19th cent., while Britain was seeking to establish a continuous strip of territory from Cape Town to Cairo, France desired to establish an overland route from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1898 it was the scene of the Fashoda Incident, which brought Britain and France to the brink of war and resulted, in 1899, in an Anglo-French agreement establishing the frontier between Sudan and the French Congo along the watershed between
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 Manchurian Incident - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This view was confirmed when the Manchurian general Chang Hsüeh-liang, a recent convert to the Kuomintang, refused to halt construction of railway and harbor facilities in competition with the South Manchurian Railway, referring Japan to the Nationalist central government.
When a bomb of unknown origin ripped the Japanese railway near Shenyang (then known as Mukden), the Japanese Kwantung army guarding the railway used the incident as a pretext to occupy S Manchuria (Sept., 1931).
Despite Japanese cabinet opposition and a pledge before the League of Nations to withdraw to the railway zone, the army completed the occupation of Manchuria and proclaimed the puppet state of Manchukuo (Feb., 1932).
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 MONOGRAPH 144-CHAPTER I
The Pacific War developed from the China Incident, which in turn was an outcome of the Manchurian Incident.
Between 1928 and the outbreak of the Manchurian Incident, there occurred more than 120 cases of infringement of rights and interests, interference with business, boycott of Japanese goods, unreasonable taxation, detention of individuals, confiscation of properties, eviction, demand for cessation of business, assault and battery, and the oppression of Korean residents.
Since a description of the Manchurian Incident is given to clarify its significance as a cause of the Pacific War, a chronological table of events is set forth below instead of a detailed description of the Incident itself.
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 Universal Jellyfish: "War Responsibility"
The starting point of the Showa War was the Manchurian Incident that took place in September 1931.
As it was for the Japanese government and military, the Manchurian Incident of September 1931 also was a major turning point for the media.
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the cabinet of Fumimaro Konoe, which by then had decided to dispatch troops to northern China, brought together representatives of media organizations and asked them to cooperate for the sake of national unity.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mukden Incident
It is almost certain that the Japanese military planned the incident and as a result carried out the subsequent occupation of Manchuria immediately with utmost efficiency.
According to the most popular view, the Japanese, Determined to conspire together to grab power and lead the country, they became the masterminds of the act of aggression into Manchuria (currently part of northeastern China) and literally dragged the nation into a series of wars.
In response to the Japanese denial of reponsibility for this incident and the denial of other (and were there was no question of culpibility) war crimes such as the Nanking Massacre, many victims and their descendants have pushed for the government of the People's Republic of China to designate September 18 as National Humiliation Day.
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 Chapter 8: Making Japanese Through War and Peace, Part Two
For one thing, the Manchurian incident led to a sequence of events during the course of which Japan marched ever deeper toward warfare on a vast scale.
The Manchurian Incident was the result of a complex web of domestic and international conflict that took place throughout the 1920s.
But because the Manchurian Incident produced the puppet state of Manzhouguo and because this puppet state was controversial in the world opinion, throughout the 1930s numerous images reinforced Japan's claim to have helped create a Manzhouguo in which peoples of different ethnic groups all cooperated harmoniously for the mutual good in the spirit of pan-Asianism.
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 Manchurian Incident — FactMonster.com
Manchurian Incident or Mukden Incident,1931, confrontation that gave Japan the impetus to set up a puppet government in Manchuria.
Second Sino-Japanese War: Origins - Origins Following the Manchurian Incident (Sept., 1931), the Japanese Kwantung army occupied...
South Manchurian Railway - South Manchurian Railway, Japanese-developed enterprise, with a trackage of 701 mi (1128 km).
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 Mukden Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinese public opinion strongly criticized Zhang Xueliang for his decision of nonresistance, even though the central government was indirectly responsible for this policy.
For example, the Japanese detained Zhang's pilots on the night of the incident, rendering the airplanes useless without pilots.
However, Japan rejected the League of Nations mandate and insisted on direct negotiations with the Chinese government.
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was triggered by the Mukden Incident or the “9-18 Incident”, as it is referred to by the Chinese.
incident that is generally accepted as the most likely sequence of events leading up to the bombing.
This incident was ineffective because it made the Japanese appear to be instigating aggression without just cause.
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 Why War? Should Israel be Seen As Doomed?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The road to the downfall of this great empire began with the Manchurian Incident in 1931óa surprise attack by elements of the Kwangtung Army, a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, on a Chinese garrison in today's Shenyang, northeastern China.
Prior to 1936, the bombing assassination of Manchurian warlord Zhang Zoulin by Imperial Japanese Army officers in 1928 and subsequent provocative activities leading up to military maneuvers by the Imperial Japanese Army in North China were all deliberately staged to concoct an excuse for the use of force.
These incidents must have been either the isolated actions of Chinese people who could no longer tolerate the overbearing attitude of the Japanese, or by certain groupings of people in the Nationalist Party who acted out of control.
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 Our Chinese Ally: The War In China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The “Manchurian Incident” proved that in a real crisis the League of Nations was useless.
The Young Marshal and his troops had been impressed by their arguments, and when Chiang Kai-shek flew to Sian to see why his Manchurian troops weren’t fighting the Communists, they held him under arrest for nearly two weeks while they attempted to convince him that the time had come to resist the Japanese.
Instead of causing further civil war, the incident resulted in the forming of a united front against Japan and a tremendous rallying to the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek.
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 Gareth Jones: A Manchukuo Incident by Margaret Siriol Colley.
Gareth Jones: A Manchukuo Incident by Margaret Siriol Colley.
Gareth Jones - A Manchukuo Incident is a thoroughly researched investigation into Gareth's untimely death by the hands of Chinese bandits which has remained a mystery until the present day.
The author's investigation is widely interspersed with Gareth's thrilling account of his intrepid journey in the Far East and provides the reader with a valuable insight into the opinions of prominent people that he met in the early 1930s.
colley.co.uk /garethjones/manchukuo_incident/index.htm   (310 words)

  
 Rise of Militarism
The Manchurian Incident of September 1931 did not fail, and it set the stage for the eventual military takeover of the Japanese government.
In the February 26th Incident of 1936, about 1,500 troops went on a rampage of assassination against the current and former prime ministers and other cabinet members, and even Saionji and members of the imperial court.
War was launched against China after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 7, 1937, in which an allegedly unplanned clash took place near Beiping (as Beijing was then called) between Chinese and Japanese troops and quickly escalated into full-scale warfare.
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 Untitled Document
At the time of the Manchurian incident, the entire world joined in criticism of Japan.
The result of this incident was the establishment of the splendid new nation of Manchuria.
The Powers are still discussing whether or not to recognize this new nation, but regardless of whether or not other nations recognize her, the Manchurian empire has already been established, and now, seven years after its creation, the empire is further consolidating its foundations with the aid of its friend, Japan.
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 Nambu World: China Incident Medal
It seems to be the same stuff as for the Manchurian campaign medal, almost like thin cardboard.
The other certificates of his that I have are for the late World War One medal, Manchurian Incident medal, and the commemorative medal for the 2600
It appears to be the same as on the Manchurian Incident (Campaign) Medal certificate, although it and the border design seem to be done in a grey-fl ink instead of the brown used on the Manchurian Incident certificate.
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On September 18, 1931, in what came to be known as the Manchurian Incident, Japanese troops detonated explosives in a section of railway near Mukden (today’s Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province) and blamed Chinese soldiers for the incident.
Sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Government, it is located in the city of Wanping and offers exhibits and descriptions of wartime events from the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to the end of the war in 1945.
The first part of the memorial was completed and opened to the public on July 6, 1987, one day before the fiftieth anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge incident on July 7, 1937.
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The Manchurian Incident of 1931 was a clash between Chinese nationalism and Japanese imperialism.
It led to a drastic change of the political orientations of the Japanese state, and began what later would be called the "15 years" war between Japan and China.
Q: how was the Feb.26 incident put down and what did the incident say about the dynamics (e.g.
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 Japan Builds An Empire -- By Robert Andersen, Kyle Behaney, Andrew Nickel, Rich Corry
Japan lacked the land needed to feed its rising population and the raw maerials to keep its infested island under control.
World leaders expressed shock at what came to be call the Manchurian Incedent.
The Manchurian Incident greatly increased the armys power over the government.
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 Manchurian Incident. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
or Mukden Incident, 1931, confrontation that gave Japan the impetus to set up a puppet government in Manchuria.
After the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), Japan replaced Russia as the dominant foreign power in S Manchuria.
By the late 1920s the Japanese feared that unification of China under the Kuomintang party would imperil Japanese interests in Manchuria.
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 Dairen: 1936   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The South Manchurian Railway Company, formerly the largest economic enterprise in Manchuria and the main agency of Japans penetration, was organized shortly after the Russo-Japanese War.
When a competing Chinese railway network threatened their monopoly, the Japanese Kwantung army staged the Manchurian Incident and set up the state of Manchukuo.
Complete with photographic and statistical records, it is a time capsule of the vintage colonial city and its place in history.
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 Manchurian incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Mukden Incident 1931, the bombing of a South Manchurian Railway track sometimes also referred as Manchurian Incident, see the link.
The Manchurian Incident (January 1931) was an engagement of the Imperial Japanese Army with Chinese forces.
In this battle, a Japanese tank force saw action for the first time.
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 Gary Leupp: On the Contemporary Relevance of the Manchurian Incident
Gary Leupp: On the Contemporary Relevance of the Manchurian Incident
The action was not authorized by the Prime Minister, Diet, or even the High Command in Tokyo, but undertaken after careful conspiratorial planning by a small cabal of field-rank officers who had a vision of a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Japan's act of war was in fact an act intended to secure the peace in a troubled region.
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 AllRefer.com - Manchurian Incident (Chinese And Taiwanese History) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Manchurian Incident (Chinese And Taiwanese History) - Encyclopedia
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This view was confirmed when the Manchurian general Chang HsUeh-liang, a recent convert to the Kuomintang, refused to halt construction of railway and harbor facilities in competition with the South Manchurian Railway, referring Japan to the Nationalist central government.
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 ::Manchuria::
The Japanese people had a very low opinion of the Chinese - a Japanese form of "untermenschen" - and, therefore, would have given no thought to the Manchurian people whatsoever.
It was also believed in Japan that Manchuria was rich in minerals, forestry and rich agricultural land.
An explosion on a section of the South Manchuria Railway, gave the army the excuse it needed to blame the local population of sabotage and to occupy the nearest Manchurian town of Shenyang.
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Later staged the Sian Incident in 1936, kidnapping Chiang Kai-shek.
Sept. "Manchurian (Mukden) Incident"‹Developed by staff officers in Japan's Kwantung Army, the 10,000-man garrison force, under the cover of defending against "further" Chinese attack on the South Manchurian Railway.
Aug. "Second Shanghai Incident" 8.13 leads to strong Chinese Nationalist counterattacks by Chiang's best troops and a General War in China and blockade of China declared by IJN 8.25.
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 Empire of the Rising Sun - Main
The Manchurian Incident increased these tensions in Japan.
The military spoke out against and condemned the corruption in Japan's government.
What was the Manchurian Incident, and how did it effect Japan?
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 Life along the South Manchurian Railway: The Memoirs of Ito Takeo - Questia Online Library
Life along the South Manchurian Railway: The Memoirs of Ito Takeo
- 5: The Manchurian Incident And the Reorganization Of the South Manchurian Railway Company
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 Gareth Jones: The Welsh Investigative Journalist (1905-35)
Gareth's website is split into two distinctive sections:
In celebration of his life, Gareth's niece, Dr. Margaret Siriol Colley and his great nephew, Nigel Linsan Colley have written and published a critically acclaimed book Gareth Jones - A Manchukuo Incident - which investigates the political intrigue surrounding Gareth's murder by Chinese bandits in 1935.
For an overview of the book, then please click on the link below or an appropriate link on the left:
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 Amazon.com: The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China: Books: Rana Mitter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Amazon.com: The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China: Books: Rana Mitter
The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (Hardcover)
Zhang Xueliang, Kwantung Army, Zhang Zuolin, Chiang Kaishek, Zhang Jinghui, Manchurian Incident, Yan Baohang, Kingly Way, League of Nations, Wang Huayi, North China, Che Xiangchen, Northeastern Army, Support Society, Zhang Zuoxiang, Manchurian Chinese, Yuan Jinkai, Special Zone, Three Eastern Provinces, Wan Fulin, Wang Delin, Ding Chao, Nonni River, Shanghai Incident, Sino-Japanese War
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