The Harbin Incident occurred during the Invasion of Manchuria in January, 1932. Kenji Doihara, head of the Harbin Special Agency was forced to call upon the Kwantung Army to assist the Manchurian puppet General Hsi Hsia(general) to take Harbin. To justify this, Colonel Doihara created another of his "Incidents" in Harbin, an engineered riot, wherein it is said that one Japanese and three Korean subjects of Japan were killed. Combatants National Revolutionary Army, China Imperial Japanese Army, Japan Commanders Zhang Xueliang, Ma Zhanshan, Feng Zhanhai, Ting Chao Shigeru Honjo, Jiro Tamon Strength 160,000 30,000 - 84,000 Casualties ? ? ... Kenji Doihara (土肥原 賢二) Doihara Kenji, August 8, 1883 - December 23, 1948) was a Japanese officer and spy who served in northeastern China from 1913 and who became a major military commander in Japans invasion of China over the following decades. ... The Kwantung Army or Guandong Army (関東軍 Japanese: Kantōgun) was a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that originated from a Guandong garrison established in 1906 to defend the Kwantung Leased Territory and the areas adjacent to the South Manchurian Railway. ... Harbin on a map of China For other meanings of Harbin, see Harbin (disambiguation). ...
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IMTFE Judgment for the Japanese Aggression Against China Invasion & Occupation of Manchuria;
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