List of Japanese political and military incidents
This is a list of Japanese political and military incidents, as classified by Japanese terminology in which incident was a euphemism applied during the beginning of history and through to the outbreak of the Pacific War.
Political incidents[]
What the Japanese terminology euphemistically describes as incidents were the attempts at coup d'etat of the period starting in the 1920's.
- Amakasu incident (1923)
- March Incident (1931)
- October incident (1931)
- May 15 incident (1932)
- League of Blood incident (1932)
- Military Academy incident (1934)
- Aizawa incident (1935)
- February 26 incident (1936)
- Kyūjō incident (8-15 Incident) (1945)
Military incidents[]
These include minor battles as well as major invasions and war crimes.
- Port Arthur massacre (China) (1894)
- Shantung incident (1927)
- Huanggutun incident (June 4, 1928)
- East Chinese Railway Incident (1929)
- Manchouli incident, as Japanese name for Russian incursion to Manchouli in response for East Chinese Railway Incident
- Jinan incident (1929)
- Wushe incident biggest and the last rebellion against Japanese colonial forces in Taiwan (1930)
- Wanpaoshan incident Japanese aggressive incursion in Wanpaoshan (July 1931)
- Nakamura incident (July 1931)
- Mukden incident, also called Manchurian incident, Liutiaoukou incident or 9.18 incident (1931), a staged sabotage of a South Manchuria Railway track.
- Tientsin incident (1931) Riot in Tientsin fomented by Col. Kenji Doihara to provide cover for the removal of Puyi to Manchuria (Nov. 1931)
- Shanghai incident, the first attempt to invade Shanghai metropolitan sector (1932)
- North Chahar incident (1935)
- Suiyuan incident (1936) Talk:List of Japanese political and military incidents
- Lukouchiao incident or China incident, usually known as Marco Polo Bridge incident (7 July 1937)
- Langfang incident (1937)
- Guanganmen incident (1937)
- Tongzhou incident (1937)
- Panay incident Japanese air attack against American river patrol boat in Yang-Tze Kiang river (1937) also involving a British river patrol boat. (12 December, 1937)
- Changkufeng incident, also called Battle of Lake Khasan (July – August, 1938)
- Kweilin incident, CNAC Chinese airline plane shot down by Japanese fighters over Pearl river, was the first aggression against civil aircraft in history(1938)
- Tientsin incident, xenophobic Japanese aggression towards British subjects in Tientsin (1939)Talk:List of Japanese political and military incidents
- Battle of Halhin Gol, also known as Nomonhan incident (May – September, 1939)
- Tutuila incident, similar Japanese air strike against an American river patrol boat in Chungking, (31 July 1941)
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- Empire of Japan
- Military history of Japan
- Political history of Japan