'September 18 incident' marked by Chinese people

Chinese people remembering today, Sept. 18, 2015, the 84th anniversary of the “September 18 incident” in World War Two.

On Sept. 18, 1931, Japanese troops blew up a section of the railway near Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, which was then under Japanese control. Japan accused Chinese troops of sabotage as a pretext for attack. They bombarded barracks near Shenyang the same evening, beginning a large-scale armed invasion of northeast China. Japan’s full-scale invasion of China and the rest of Asia, causing 35 million Chinese people’s death and injury in the next following 14 years, followed this incident. During the 14 years, 42 million Chinese people became refugees and over 200,000 Chinese women were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese army.