Japan And China example essay topic

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Lytton Commission We, representatives of the League of Nations, would like to give our League of Nations Official Pronouncement following the events of the Mukden Incident and the formation of Manchukuo. First of all, we would like to list the facts accepted by both Japan and China. On the 18th of September, 1931, a track of the Southern Manchurian Railway was detonated by a bomb. As a result of this detonation, the Japanese army advanced into Manchuria thus creating a puppet state, Manchukuo. China declares that this is a act of aggression and turn toward the League of Nations for aid. On the 10th of December, 1931, the League of Nations has sent a commission to investigate the events that took place.

From the six weeks we spent there, we inquired two very different stories from both opposing sides. First, Japan claims that the bomb was set off by Chinese willing to disrupt the growing Japanese bussiness. The act of advancing into Manchuria was only to free Manchuria from Chinese rule and a act of self defense. As a leading power in East Asia, it is their responsibility to keep it free from lawlessness.

China gives a entirely different view of the whole incident. China claims that the Mukden Incident was set off by members of the Japanese army to further enslave their people. Japan has been fighting China not only for keeping peace, but for rather their only benefits. Ever since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has always wanted raw materials and Manchuria was just too good to be true.

China also claims that they have been torn apart by civil war but are trying to unite the torn country again when suddenly the Japanese suddenly intervene. After a long discussion, we League of Nations find China guilt for the Mukden Incident and the form of Manchukuo. China has no right to have Manchuria under Chinese rule. If the dynasty had been more powerful and modernized, then the Mukden Incident would have not happened thus not creating the Manchukuo.