Students attend a ceremony to commemorate the 84th anniversary of the September 18 Incident in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Sept. 18, 2015. On Sept. 18, 1931, Japanese troops blew up a section of the railway under their control near Shenyang, and then 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. The incident was followed by Japan's full-scale invasion of China and the rest of Asia, triggering the war against Japanese aggression. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)
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BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Friday marks the 84th anniversary of an incident with widely undervalued global importance -- the invasion of northeast China by Japanese troops on Sept. 18, 1931.
The invasion, which came eight years prior to the German invasion of Poland but is much less known, should be regarded as the real starting point of the war. The incident, also known as the Manchurian Incident, also ushered in the 14-year Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Full story
