Japan's Rogue Generals Faked a Bombing and Started WWII in Asia

FEATURE: Japanese woman learns father's gruesome fate in Manchuria after WWII

About a decade after Japan's defeat in World War II, Yoriko Miyazaki finally learned how her father had died after the family was separated in Manchuria.

Japan's Rogue Generals Faked a Bombing and Started WWII in Asia

On September 18, 1931, rogue officers of Japan's Kwantung Army staged a railway explosion near Mukden and used it to conquer Manchuria — igniting a conflict historians now recognize as the true opening of World War II in Asia, nearly a decade before Pearl Harbor. The post Japan’s Rogue Generals Faked a Bombing and Started WWII in Asia appeared first on History Collection.