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9.18 Incident Museum
September 18, 1931 is a day that will never be forgotten by the Chinese people, as it was the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War in China. On the day, the Japanese army, which had been occupying part of Manchuria (northeastern China) since the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), allegedly bombed a bridge at a Japanese owned and operated railroad crossing. The Japanese then blamed the attack on Chinese rebels. This action, which is now referred to as "9.18 Incident" or"the Manchurian Incident" or "the Mukden Incident" (Mukden is the Manchu name for Shenyang), was used as a pretext for the Japanese army to begin its invasion of China.
The 9.18 Museum is located on the exact site of the "9.18 Incident". The museum is a large and very impressive building, designed to look like an open book. Some exhibits feature hundreds of photographs and documents from the years before the invasion leading all the way up to the war-crimes tribunals of the 1950s. Other exhibits include Chinese and Japanese firearms and artillery, human skeletons found in Shenyang, wax figurines, Japanese torture devices, and concrete sections of the original railroad bridge.
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