Pacification of Manchukuo

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; Korean communists	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
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.