Tongzhou Incident
The Tongzhou Incident (July, 1937) was the massacre incident of Japanese and Korean nationals which the Chinese troop caused.
Tongzhou(Chinese:通州 tong zhou) was a strategic post in the eastern district of Beijing. According to Japanese materials, approximately two hundred Japanese nationals (including Koreans who were Japanese nationals at that time) were killed by the Chinese troop in the incident. The incident shocked public sentiment in japan, and it is used to justify military intervention under the guise of protecting Japanese property in Beijing by the Japanese authority. On the other hand, Chinese historians insist that this incident was one of the excuses Japan used to expand the military campaign in China.
The Tongzhou Incident primarily appears in Japanese far-right literature, and very rarely in Western, Chinese and other sources. Chinese historians insist that the ringt-wing organizations in Japan use this incident to downplay the atrocities committed by the Imperial Army in the Nanjing Massacre, focusing on the cruelty of the Chinese army.