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 1920s and through to the outbreak of the Pacific War.
[edit] Political Incidents
What the Japanese languages euphemistically describes as incidents were the attempts at coup d'etat of the period.
- Amakasu Incident (1923)
- March incident (1931)
- Imperial Colors Incident (1931)
- May 15 Incident (1932)
- League of Blood Incident (1932)
- Military Academy Incident (1934)
- Aizawa Incident (1935)
- February 26 Incident (1936)
- Hatanaka Incident (8-15 Incident) (1945)
[edit] Military Incidents
These include minor battles as well as major invasions and war crimes.
- 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)
- Suiyuan Incident(1936) [1]
- Lukouchiao Incident or China Incident, usually known as Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7 July 1937)
- Langfang Incident (1937)
- Kuanganmen 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 shotdown 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)[2]
- 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)
