What is Mukden Incident?
{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Manchurian Incident | image = Mukden 1931 japan shenyang.jpg | caption = Japanese troops entering [[Shenyang]] during the Mukden Incident. | date = September 18, 1931 – February 18, 1932 | place = [[Inner Manchuria]], [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] | result = Japanese victory | combatant1 = {{flagicon|Republic of China (1912–1949)}} [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] | combatant2 = {{flagicon|Empire of Japan}} [[Empire of Japan]] | commander1 = {{flagicon|Republic of China (1912–1949)}} [[Zhang Xueliang]],<br> {{flagicon|Republic of China (1912–1949)}} [[Ma Zhanshan]],<br> {{flagicon|Republic of China (1912–1949)}} [[Feng Zhanhai]] | commander2 = {{flagicon|Empire of Japan|army}} [[Shigeru Honjō]],<br> {{flagicon|Empire of Japan|army}} [[Jirō Minami]] | strength1 = 160,000 | strength2 = 30,000 – 66,000 | casualties1 = ? | casualties2 = ? }} The '''Mukden Incident''', also known as the '''Manchurian Incident''', was an event set up by Japanese soldiers as a reason for invading the northern part of [[China]] known as [[Manchuria]] in 1931.<ref>The Cambridge History of Japan: The twentieth century, p. 294, Peter Duus, [[John Whitney Hall]], Cambridge University Press: 1989 {{ISBN|978-0521223577}}</ref><ref>An instinct for war: scenes from the battlefields of history, p. 315, Roger J. Spiller, {{ISBN|978-0674019416}}; Harvard University Press</ref><ref>''Concise dictionary of modern Japanese history'', p. 120, Janet Hunter, University of California Press: 1984, {{ISBN|978-0520045576}}</ref> On September 18, 1931, a small amount of [[dynamite]] was blown up by a Japanese soldier near Japan's South Manchuria Railway near [[Mukden]].<ref>Fenby, Jonathan. ''Chiang Kai-shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost''. Carroll & Graf: 2003, p. 202</ref> Although the explosion was so weak that the rail was still usable, the Japanese army, blaming the action on the Chinese people, fully invaded Manchuri