Pacification of Manchukuo

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Pacification of Manchukuo
Part of the Interwar period, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II
Japanese troops in Manchuria, 1931
Date 4 November 1931 – July 1942 Location Manchukuo Result Japanese-Manchukuo victory
Belligerents
China	Japan  Manchukuo
Commanders 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 Seishiro Itagaki Xi Qia Ma Zhanshan (until 1932) Zhang Haipeng Yu Zhishan
Strength
300,000	Japanese: 84,000 Manchurian: 111,000[1]
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

The Pacification of Manchukuo was a Japanese counterinsurgency campaign to suppress any armed resistance to the newly established puppet state of Manchukuo from various anti-Japanese volunteer armies in occupied Manchuria and later the Communist Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. The operations were carried out by the Imperial Japanese Kwantung Army and the collaborationist forces of the Manchukuo government from March 1932 until 1942, and resulted in a Japanese victory.