Bear in Mind History, Cherish Today’s Peace

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----69th Chinese Bitter memory of World-shaking “September 18 Incident”

Japan Invaded Northeast China

Japanese imperialism had a decades-long policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily to secure its vast raw material reserves and other resources. In order to realize their aggression ambition, they first aimed their target at the Northeast China area.

As early as in 1927, Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi prepared a plan to invade China. The plan was titled “Tanaka Memorial Imperialist Conquest Plan”. He included the Northeast China as a “significant stake for the Japan’s defense and survive” area. In 1928, the Japanese militarists plotted the Huanggutun Incident, attempted to annex the Northeast China.

In the late 1920s, economic crisis erupted in the capitalism world. Japan was one of the countries that was badly hit because of its resources were deficient and the market was limited. In 1931, Japan's economic crisis reached its apex, the industrial production dropped 32.4%, the heavy industry dropped approximately 50%, 3,000,000 workers in Japan were unemployed, the farmers were badly in debt with approximately two third of the farmers had lost their lands.

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On March 14, 1927, Japan Finance Minister Naoharu Kataoka was answering pestering questions in the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives. He want to make the point that the situation was critical, he announced the latest news that crossed his desk: "Tokyo Watanabe Bank just went bankrupt this morning." This news was an unexpected bomb to the financial market as well as people at large. Immediately, depositors queued up in front of banks to withdraw their money. 37 banks in the Tokyo area closed. Image: Depositors queued up in front of a bank.

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The economic crisis caused the lower level-working people to suffer in the serious disaster, struggled in the death line. Image: People were compelled to take the bark as food to survive.

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In order to maintain a livelihood, these underage girls from peasant families were sold to the brothel by their biological parents.

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In order to get rid of the difficult situation caused by the economic crisis, Japanese militarists created disturbances to let loose the dogs of war. After Fengtian Clique warlord Zhang Zuolin quarreled with his Japanese lord, the train he rode in on June 4, 1928 was exploded at the Huanggutun railway station. Zhang Zuolin was killed in the blasting plotted by the Kwangtung Army. Image: Zhang Zuolin's railcar after the explosion.

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In June and July, 1931, the Japanese Militarism group drew up a so-called “Solution for the Manchuria problems” program, and started to deploy their invasion plot. On September 18 at 10:30 pm, the Japanese armed forces blew up a section of the railroad in Liutiaogou, Shenyang. They immediately took this as the excuse to attack the Beidaying in Shenyang. They seized the City of Shenyang on the next day. This was the world-shaking “September 18 Incident”. Because of the Kuomintang Government implemented no resistance policy, the three China Northeast Provinces were occupied by the enemy just in three months time.

On September 18, 1931 at 10:30 pm, Japanese armed forces blew up a section of the railroad in Liutiaogou, Shenyang. They immediately took this as the excuse to attack the Beidaying in Shenyang, created the world-shaking “September 18 Incident”. Image: Japanese reporters inspected the explosion scene.

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On September 19, 1931, Japanese armed forces seized the entire Shenyang. Image: Japanese soldiers erected machine guns in the city to suppress the Chinese nations.

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Japan established a “Manchukuo” on March 1, 1932, after they seized the Northeast China area. The “Manchukuo” was a false country with a puppet government with Puyi (center seated), the last Qing emperor, as the head. In the following year they changed “Manchukuo” into “Great Empire of Manchuria“, and installed Puyi as the nominal regent and emperor. Image: Front row third from left was General Baron Shigeru Honjo.

After Japan seized the Northeast China, they established a puppet Manchuria regime in March 1932. The Qing Dynasty last Emperor Puyi was kidnapped from Tianjin act as a “being in power” governor. On September 15, the “Japan-Manchukuo Agreement” was signed. The agreement was to legalize the Japanese to usurp privileges in the country. In the following year they changed “Manchukuo” into “Great Empire of Manchuria“, and installed Puyi as the nominal regent and emperor.

Imperialist nations of the United States of America and the United Kingdom adopted appease and tolerate manner in the Japan’s invasion of China. On China's request, the League of Nations sent a commission headed by English man Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton to Manchuria. In October 1932, this fact-finding team reported to the League of Nations. The report acknowledged that the seizure of “Manchuria” by the Japan was illegal, but the report also slandered that “the resisting of Japanese goods by the Chinese caused the conflict between China and Japan”. The report had not proposed any sanction measure to the Japanese invader, but opposed the monopolization by the Japanese. The report suggested implementing a so-called “substantial autonomy” in Northeast China, which was to implement common autonomy by the imperialist powers. In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after the League of Nations did not acknowledge “Manchukuo” as a nation.

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On January 28, 1932, the Japanese armed forces attacked Shanghai. General Jiang Guangnai and General Cai Tingkai lead the 19-route armies to defense the Japanese. They successfully repelled the attack, and eliminated thousands of the Japanese armies in more than a month’s time of battles. On May 5, the Kuomintang Government signed the "Shanghai Truce Agreement" with Japan, acknowledged that the Japanese armed forces could station in Shanghai.

After Japan invaded Northeast China, Kwangtung Army General Seishiro Itagaki sent a telegraph to Shanghai Japanese armed forces Major General Ryukichi Tanaka. He allocated a special fund of 20,000 yens (more than the present 10,000,000 yens) to Ryukichi Tanaka and requested him to create disturbances in Shanghai. In the evening on January 18, 1932, five Japanese monks in kimono costume walked on the street in Shanghai. They knocked on their skin drum blatantly to sought publicity. They finally got conflicted with the Shanghai residents and one of them got killed, the other two injured. The Japanese armed forces took this incident as an excuse to declare war in Zhabei District and Wusong District on January 28. Image: The Shanghai invading Japanese Navy Marine Corps.

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After Japan invaded Northeast China, they implemented the Fascist barbaric ruling. Anyone who was not willing to “pledge allegiance” will be punished by “beheaded with the straw cutter”.

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The heroic Chinese nations were struggled with the Japanese invaders under extreme difficult condition. The Japanese puppet armies adopted all the dirty tricks included a community-based system of law enforcement and civil control, but had not been able to suppress the people. Image: The killing of the guerrilla fighters by the Japanese armies in Dunhua, Jilin.

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In 1934, Japan created the first “military-civil migration group” to enter Jiamusi. Two years later, large groups of immigrants started to enter the Northeast China as the “development groups”.

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After the “September 18 Incident” emergency, China accused Japan for their aggressive act to the League of Nations. The League of Nations formed a commission headed by English man Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton with representatives from five countries of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, German and Italian in January 1932. The commission team embarked from Europe and arrived at New York, United States of America and Tokyo, Japan before they arrived at Nanjing in March 26. They only arrived at Northeast China in April. Image: Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton met China representative Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo on April 20.

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On April 24, 1932, Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Left) visited the Japanese Kwangtung Area Headquarters. On his left is Kwangtung Commander General Baron Shigeru Honjo.

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In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after the League of Nations did not acknowledge “Manchukuo” as a nation. Image: The press conference held by the Japan Government on the withdrawal of Japan from the League of Nations.

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