✦ History

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

September 18, 1931 – February 27, 1932

Result Japanese victory

Occupation of Manchuria by the Japanese Kwantung Army after the staged Mukden Incident of September 1931. Japan set up the puppet state of Manchukuo in 1932 and left the League of Nations after it condemned the invasion.

Overview Contemporaries

Axis

Allies

Other

Japan
Republic of China
Puyi military commander Senjūrō Hayashi belligerent leader Shigeru Honjō belligerent leader Jirō Tamon belligerent leader Zhang Haipeng military commander
Zhang Xueliang belligerent leader Ma Zhanshan belligerent leader Feng Zhanhai belligerent leader

Strength and losses

Strength
30,000–60,450

Japan Killed c. 10,000

Strength
160,000

Republic of China Killed c. 50,000

Killed
c. 60,000

Units

Imperial Japanese Army Akira Mutō Lieutenant General Asaka Yasuhiko General Chiang Kai-shek Generalissimo Doihara Kenji General Emperor Taishō Dai-gensui Hajime Sugiyama General Harukichi Hyakutake General Hatazō Adachi Lieutenant General Hayao Tada General Heisuke Yanagawa Lieutenant General Heitarō Kimura General Hideki Tojo General Hideyoshi Obata General Hirohito Hiromichi Yahara Colonel Hisaichi Terauchi General Hitoshi Imamura General Ijichi Kōsuke Lieutenant General Isamu Chō Lieutenant General Jirō Minami General Jirō Tamon Lieutenant General Jun Ushiroku General Kamio Mitsuomi General Kan'in Kotohito Generalfeldmarschall Kanji Ishiwara Lieutenant General Katsura Tarō General Keiji Suzuki Major General Kenkichi Ueda General Kingorō Hashimoto Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki Colonel Kodama Gentarō General Kuniaki Koiso General of the Army Kunio Nakagawa Lieutenant General Kuroda Kiyotaka Lieutenant General Kuroki Tamemoto General Kōtoku Satō Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma Lieutenant General Masakazu Kawabe General Masaomi Yasuoka Lieutenant General Michitarō Komatsubara Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima Lieutenant General Morihiro Higashikuni Major Nobuyuki Abe General Nogi Maresuke General Oku Yasukata Marshal Otozō Yamada General of the Army Prince Arisugawa Taruhito General Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa Major Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa Colonel Prince Tsunehisa Takeda Major General Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda Podpolkovnik Rensuke Isogai General Renya Mutaguchi Lieutenant General Rikichi Andō General of the Army Sadae Inoue General Saigō Takamori Gensui Seiichi Kita General Seiichi Kuno Lieutenant General Seishirō Itagaki General Senjūrō Hayashi General Shigeru Honjō General Shizuichi Tanaka General Shizuo Yokoyama Lieutenant General Shunroku Hata Gensui Shōjirō Iida Divisional General Sōsaku Suzuki General Tadamichi Kuribayashi Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano Lieutenant General Takahito, Prince Mikasa Major Takaji Wachi Lieutenant General Takashi Sakai General Takeichi Nishi Colonel Takuma Nishimura Lieutenant General Takurō Matsui Lieutenant General Tanaka Giichi General Tanzan Ishibashi Sub-lieutenant Tatsumi Naofumi Lieutenant General Tomiichi Murayama Officer Candidate Tomoyuki Yamashita General Ugaki Kazushige General Waichirō Sonobe Lieutenant General Yamagata Aritomo Field Marshal Yamaguchi Motomi Yamanashi Hanzō General Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu Major General Yasuji Okamura General Yoshitsugu Saitō Lieutenant General Ōdera Yasuzumi Major General Ōtori Keisuke Ōyama Iwao Gensui · 1868–present Iwane Matsui General · 1897–1938 Yoshijirō Umezu General · 1903–1945 19th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) Kwantung Army
Northeastern Army

Battles 2

Before and after

Followed from
Mukden Incident September 18, 1931
Ended by
Tanggu Truce May 31, 1933
Led to
Second Sino-Japanese War July 7, 1937 – September 2, 1945

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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
 
Mukden Incident
 
Nazi seizure of power
 
Tanggu Truce
 
Second Sino-Japanese War

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