Huanggutun incident

Huanggutun incident

Huanggutun Railway Station shortly after the explosion.
Native name	皇姑屯事件
English name	Huanggutun incident
Date	4 June 1928
Time	5:23 a.m. (UTC +08:00)
Venue	A bridge near Huanggutun Railway Station
Location	Shenyang, Republic of China
Cause	Bomb
Motive	The desire to install a pro-Japanese leader in Manchuria
Target	Zhang Zuolin
Organized by	Colonel Daisaku Kōmoto of the Kwantung Army
Participants	Captain Kaneo Tōmiya First Lieutenant Sadatoshi Fujii
Outcome	Death of Zhang Zuolin Failure to destabilize Northeast China
Casualties
Zhang Zuolin
Wu Junsheng

The Huanggutun incident (Chinese: 皇姑屯事件; pinyin: Huánggū Tún Shìjiàn), also known as the Zhang Zuolin Explosion Death Incident (Japanese: 張作霖爆殺事件, Hepburn: Chōsakurin bakusatsu jiken), was the assassination of the Fengtian warlord and Generalissimo of the Military Government of China Zhang Zuolin near Shenyang on 4 June 1928.

Zhang was killed when his personal train was destroyed by an explosion at the Huanggutun Railway Station that had been plotted and committed by the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army. Zhang's death had undesirable outcomes for the Empire of Japan, which had hoped to advance its interests in Manchuria at the end of the Warlord Era, and the incident was concealed as "A Certain Important Incident in Manchuria" (満州某重大事件, Manshu bou judai jiken) in Japan. The incident delayed the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for several years until the Mukden Incident in 1931.