Japan’s shift toward militarism accelerated after World War I, and in 1931 it exploded into open expansion in China. This video explains how the Mukden Incident was used as a pretext for invasion, why ...

Students visit the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, September 17, 2010. Many Chinese civilians Friday took a visit here to mark the 79th anniversary ...

BEIJING (AFP) – China marked the anniversary of Japan's brutal occupation Wednesday, as a state-run memorial museum called on Tokyo to offer compensation and an apology to relatives of those forced ...

To commemorate the 85th anniversary of the September 18th Incident, also known as the "Mukden Incident", the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, is collecting items of ...

The morning sun was lacquering the China sky a brilliant red when the B-29 Superfortress Monsoon roared down the long runway. It seemed she would never get off. When the heavy-laden monster finally ...

On the 81st anniversary of the Manchurian incident and amid the renewed dispute over the Diaoyu / Senkaku islands, anti-Japan protests continued in China. On September 18, 1931 Japan claimed that an ...

For Asahi Shimbun reporters, including myself, Sept. 18 is an important date of special historical significance—not only on one occasion but two—that continues to teach us much about our profession.