Manchurian Incident
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- This article is about a tank battle in Manchuria in 1931. 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. It was in
- Place : Harbin, Manchuria
- Opponent : Chinese Army
- Tank Unit: 1st Special Tank Company
- Commander: Captain Hyakutake
- Tanks: One tank platoon (Renault FT17 and Renault NC27 tanks)
The Manchurian Incident or Mukden Incident, 1931, was a 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. 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). See
Second Sino-Japanese War.
References to this incident
- Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - contains a subchapter describing the situation of the Manchuko province around 1940.
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