The Wanpaoshan Incident (万宝山事件, Manpōzan jiken; Pinyin: Wànbǎoshān Shìjiàn, Korean: 만보산 사건; RR: Manbosan Sageon) was a minor dispute between Chinese and Korean farmers which occurred on 1 July 1931. Through a series of false reports, the issue was highly sensationalized in the Imperial Japanese and Korean press, and used for considerable propaganda effect to increase anti-Chinese sentiment in the Empire of Japan prior to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
The Wanpaoshan Incident (万宝山事件, Manpōzan jiken; Pinyin: Wànbǎoshān Shìjiàn, Korean: 만보산 사건; RR: Manbosan Sageon) was a minor dispute between Chinese and Korean farmers which occurred on 1 July 1931. Through a series of false reports, the issue was highly sensationalized in the Imperial Japanese and Korean press, and used for considerable propaganda effect to increase anti-Chinese sentiment in the Empire of Japan prior to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
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