List of Japanese political and military incidents

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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.

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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