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After the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Japan had replaced Russia as the dominant foreign power in Southern Manchuria.

Colonel Seishiro Itagaki and Lieutenant Colonel Kanji Ishiwara planned the incident in which officers of the Shimamoto Regiment, which guarded the South Manchuria Railway, arranged for sappers to place explosives beneath the tracks. After the explosion, the Japanese immediately framed the Chinese soldiers garrisoned nearby and attacked those troops under the justification that Japanese property must be protected from assaults by the Chinese.

Even though the Japanese cabinet opposed the move and the leaders pledged to the League of Nations they would pull out, the army subsequently established the puppet state of Manchukuo in February 1932. Japan subsequently pulled out of the League of Nations.

The Government of the People's Republic of China opened the 9.18 Incident Exhibition Museum at Shenyang (present-day name of Mukden) on September 18, 1991. Then Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto was one of the notable visitors of the museum in 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t.

See also:

• South Manchuria RailwayThe South Manchuria Railway Company (Japanese: ; Mantetsu) was a company founded by Japan in 1906, after the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904- 1905), and operated in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. From 1906 or 1910 until 1925, the company also operated the Korean
• Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)The Second Sino-Japanese War was a major invasion of eastern China by Japan preceding and during World War II. It ended with the surrender of Japan in 1945. In Chinese, the war is known as the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War of Resistance or War of Res
• Chang Hsüeh-liangZhang Xueliang or Chang Hsueh-liang (, pinyin: Zhng Xueliang, English: Peter Hsueh Liang Chang) ( June 3, 1901 October 15, 2001), nicknamed the "Young Marshall", became the effective ruler of Manchuria and much of Northeast China after the assassination o

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