Word: mukden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan's Kwantung army, looking for an excuse to invade Manchuria, accused Chinese soldiers of blowing up a section of the Japanese-operated South Manchurian railroad near Liu Ho Kou. Japanese forces occupied the entire Mukden area forthwith. Not a bit embarrassed were the Samurais when it transpired that a train had traversed the damaged section of track half an hour after it was blown up. The Japanese offered various explanations and were even reported to have served up for internal consumption the following: the Japanese engineer, seeing the damage, appealed to the God-Emperor with such success that...
They said little of the miseries of their internment. Husbands kissed wives as cameras clicked. Next day newspapers had an unusual pictorial record of marital feelings. Notable was U. Alexis Johnson, U.S. Vice Consul at Mukden. He rushed off the boat, calling to reporters: "I don't want to talk to newspapermen. I want to talk to my wife. I haven't seen her in three years." He spied her in the crowd, walked up to her slowly, gravely...
Sept. 18, 1931. Japanese troops, without warning, marched into Mukden, went on to conquer the Chinese province of Manchuria, set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Japanese Navy bombarded Shanghai; its Army moved in to kill some 100,000 Chinese...
...Army, where he redeemed himself by becoming the Man Friday of that Army's blustering leaders, Generals Juzo Nishio and Seishiro Itagaki. For them he ran a Gestapo, checking up on the Army's loyalties. He was said to have agents scattered from the remote frontiers to Mukden's hotels. His red brick headquarters bulged with dossiers on every Kwantung officer and he was known as Manchukuo's "bogey man." In 1937, when General Itagaki was recalled to Japan, General Tojo became Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army...
...from Western civilization and celebrate upside-down holidays called National Humiliation Days. For ten years their most important National Humiliation Day has been Chiu I Pa. (pronounced Jo Ee Ba, translated Nine-One-Eight, meaning Sept. 18). On Sept. 18, 1931 a strip of Japanese-owned railway north of Mukden was blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations. A crime condoned, the Manchurian Incident was followed by other acts of international brigandage until the entire code...