The Katanas Come Out at Night

The Soviet, Chinese and Japanese governments had a long running disagreement over the KoreanSoviet/Chinese border. The dispute was pushed to the brink when the Soviets occupied the heights of Changkufeng Hill which overlooked the Korean port of Rajin and the strategic railway link to Manchuria. After weeks of …

1938-07-31

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The Soviet, Chinese and Japanese governments had a long running disagreement over the KoreanSoviet/Chinese border. The dispute was pushed to the brink when the Soviets occupied the heights of Changkufeng Hill which overlooked the Korean port of Rajin and the strategic railway link to Manchuria. After weeks of posturing from both sides, the Japanese had pulled back south of the Tumen River. But with Japanese high command anxious to show the might of the empire, minor incidents with Soviet border patrols were eventually used as an excuse to attack – clearing the heights of Changkufeng was the first priority.

Changkufeng Hill, Russia

The Battle of Lake Khasan (29 July – 11 August 1938), also known as the Changkufeng Incident in China and Japan, was an attempted military incursion by Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state, into the territory claimed and controlled by the Soviet Union. That incursion was founded in the Japanese belief that the Soviet Union had misinterpreted the demarcation of the boundary based on the Treaty of Peking between Imperial Russia and Qing China and the subsequent supplementary agreements on demarcation and tampered with the demarcation markers. Japanese forces occupied the disputed area but withdrew after heavy fighting and a diplomatic settlement.

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