Counterinsurgency in Manchuria

Counterinsurgency in Manchuria
Part of the interwar period, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the China Burma India Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War II

Japanese troops in Manchuria, 1931
Date4 November 1931 – July 1942
Location
Result Japanese-Manchukuo victory
Belligerents
 China
Korean communists

 Japan

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
Seishirō Itagaki
Xi Qia
Ma Zhanshan (until 1932)
Zhang Haipeng
Yu Zhishan
Strength
300,000 Japanese: 84,000
Manchurian: 111,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown
Counterinsurgency in Manchuria
Simplified Chinese东北抗战
Traditional Chinese東北抗戰
Literal meaningNortheast Resistance War
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDōngběi Kàngzhàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingdung1 bak1 kong3 zin3

The Counterinsurgency in Manchuria (also referred to as the Pacification of Manchukuo by some sources) 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.