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 beginning of history and through to the outbreak of the Pacific War.

Political incidents

• Sakuradamon Incident (1860)
• Namamugi Incident
• Aomatsuba Incident

What the Japanese terminology euphemistically describes as incidents were the attempts at coup d'etat of the period starting in the 1920's.

• Amakasu incident (1923)
• March Incident (1931)
• October 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 shot down 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)