1894-5 First Sino-Japanese war - fledging Japanese navy defeats Chinese fleet off

Yalu River. Fortress of Port Arthur (Lushun) stormed. After the war, Japan

seizes Taiwan and S. Manchuria.

1931 Sept.18 - "The Mukden Incident" - Bomb explodes under Japanese-owned

express train in Manchuria (planted by Japanese secret agents); Japanese troops

proceed to occupy all Manchuria.

1932 Chinese boycott of Japanese goods leads to the "Battle of Shanghai"; Japanese

aircraft carriers in action for the first time. League of Nations condemns

Japanese aggression in Manchuria.

1933 Japan withdraws from League of Nations.

1934 Pu Yi - former emperor of China - becomes puppet emperor of Manchuria.

1937 July - "The China Incident" -- a skirmish between Japan and Chinese troops at

the Marco Polo Bridge (Luguoqiao), near Peking, sparks off a full-scale invasion

of China. Nanking Massacre

August - Japanese bombers make the first trans-oceanic raids in history - from

* For more than 50 years, the number of persons killed in Nanking has been controversial. To prove for the first time that the number was no less than 369,366, the authors Shi Young and James Yin, two Chinese researchers now living in the United States, included Nanking census data from before and after the massacre, and the records of burial societies and Japanese officers, to calculate their numbers.

Author Young argues, "We cannot allow ourselves to forget the atrocities committed in Nanking in 1937 and 1938. Japan's behavior as an imperial power from 1933 to 1945 may be well documented, but the heinous events in Nanking are little more than a footnote to the Western world.

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