Counterinsurgency in Manchuria

1931–42 Japanese military operation Counterinsurgency in ManchuriaPart of the interwar period, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the China Burma India Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War IIJapanese troops in Manchuria, 1931Date4 November 1931 – July 1942LocationManchukuoResult Japanese-Manchukuo victoryBelligerents China Anti-Japanese volunteer armies Korean communists Japan ManchukuoCommanders and leaders Ma Zhanshan Zhao Shangzhi Yang Jingyu † Zhou Baozhong Li Zhaolin Ding Chao Feng Zhanhai Tang Juwu † Wang Fengge Wang Delin Su Bingwen Zhang Haitian Ji Hongchang Choe Hyon Kim Il Sung Shigeru Honjō Nobuyoshi Mutō Takashi Hishikari Jirō Minami Kenkichi Ueda Yoshijirō Umezu Seishirō Itagaki Xi Qia Ma Zhanshan (until 1932) Zhang Haipeng Yu ZhishanStrength 300,000 Japanese: 84,000 Manchurian: 111,000Casualties and losses Unknown Unknown Counterinsurgency in ManchuriaSimplified Chinese东北抗战Traditional Chinese東北抗戰Literal meaningNortheast Resistance WarTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinDōngběi KàngzhànYue: CantoneseJyutpingdung1 bak1 kong3 zin3 The Counterinsurgency in Manchuria (also referred to as the Pacification of Manchukuo by some sourc