September 18 Incident marked in China(1/10)

People attend a bell-ringing ceremony to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the "September 18 Incident," in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning province, Sept 18, 2014. On Sept 18, 1931, Japanese troops blew up a section of the railway under their control near Shenyang, and then accused Chinese troops of sabotage as a pretext for attack. They bombarded barracks near Shenyang the same evening, beginning a large-scale armed invasion of northeast China. The incident was followed by Japan's full-scale invasion of China and the rest of Asia, triggering the war against Japanese aggression. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)