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Chinese/Japanese Hostilities Timeline 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. 1910 Annexation of Korea. 1926 Hirohito becomes Emperor. 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