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| 1926 |
| | | 25-year-old Hirohito succeeds to the imperial throne of Japan after five years as prince regent | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Japan announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations after a resolution is passed declaring the Japanese occupation of Manchuria illegal | |
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| c. 1935 |
| | | Kim Il Sung leads a Communist guerrilla campaign against the Japanese occupation of Korea | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Germany and Japan establish an Anti-Comintern Pact against their common enemy, the USSR | |
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| 1937 |
| | | The Japanese use an incident at the Marco Polo Bridge, near Beijing, as the pretext for an attack on China | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Japanese troops occupy Beijing – at the start of eight years of continuous war between China and Japan | |
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| 1937 |
| | | The Japanese capture the Chinese capital, Nanjing, and massacre at least 300,000 inhabitants within a few weeks | |
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| 1939 March |
| | | Hungary aligns itself with the Axis powers, signing Germany and Japan's Anti-Comintern Pact | |
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