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The Manchurian Incident, the League of Nations and the Origins of the Pacific War. What the Geneva archives reveal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yoshizawa Tatsuhiko
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At 9:18 p.m. on Sept. 18 of this year, I was standing in front of the Sept. 18 History Museum in Shenyang, China. It was raining. A siren went off. It sounded like the wailing of a fire engine.

On this day each year, Shenyang holds a ceremony to mark the anniversary of a military crackdown against the city's unsuspecting citizens by the Imperial Japanese Army. This year was the 76th anniversary of that event.

Japanese forces swiftly overran a vast area of northeastern China. The annual ceremony seeks to keep this memory alive. It is also serves as a prayer for peace.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 12 , December 2007 , e2
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