List of Japanese political and military incidents

This is a list of Japanese political and military incidents, as classified by Japanese terminology in which incident was a euphemism applied during the 1920s and through to the outbreak of the Pacific War.

Political incidents
What the Japanese terminology euphemistically describes as incidents were the attempts at coup d'etat of the period.


 * Amakasu Incident (1923)
 * March incident (1931)
 * Imperial Colors Incident (1931)
 * May 15 Incident (1932)
 * League of Blood Incident (1932)
 * Military Academy Incident (1934)
 * Aizawa Incident (1935)
 * February 26 Incident (1936)
 * Kyūjō Incident (8-15 Incident) (1945)

Military Incidents
These include minor battles as well as major invasions and war crimes.
 * Port Arthur massacre (China) (1894)
 * Shantung Incident (1927)
 * Huanggutun Incident (June 4, 1928)
 * East Chinese Railway Incident (1929)
 * Manchouli Incident, as Japanese name for Russian incursion to Manchouli in response for East Chinese Railway Incident
 * Jinan Incident (1929)
 * Wushe Incident biggest and the last rebellion against Japanese colonial forces in Taiwan (1930)
 * Wanpaoshan Incident Japanese aggressive incursion in Wanpaoshan (July 1931)
 * Nakamura Incident (July 1931)
 * Mukden Incident, also called Manchurian Incident, Liutiaoukou Incident or 9.18 Incident (1931), a staged sabotage of a South Manchuria Railway track.
 * Tientsin Incident (1931) Riot in Tientsin fomented by Col. Kenji Doihara to provide cover for the removal of Puyi to Manchuria (Nov. 1931)
 * Shanghai Incident, the first attempt to invade Shanghai metropolitan sector (1932)
 * North Chahar Incident (1935)
 * Suiyuan Incident (1936) Talk:List of Japanese political and military incidents
 * Lukouchiao Incident or China Incident, usually known as Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7 July 1937)
 * Langfang Incident (1937)
 * Guanganmen Incident (1937)
 * Tongzhou Incident (1937)
 * Panay incident Japanese air attack against American river patrol boat in Yang-Tze Kiang river (1937) also involving a British river patrol boat. (12 December, 1937)
 * Changkufeng Incident, also called Battle of Lake Khasan (July – August, 1938)
 * Kweilin Incident,CNAC Chinese airline plane shotdown by Japanese fighters over Pearl river,was the first aggression against civil aircraft in history(1938)
 * Tientsin Incident, xenophobic Japanese aggression towards British subjects in Tientsin (1939)Talk:List of Japanese political and military incidents
 * Battle of Halhin Gol, also known as Nomonhan Incident (May – September, 1939)
 * Tutuila Incident, similar Japanese air strike against an American river patrol boat in Chungking, (31 July 1941)