In the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Army and the Chinese Revolutionary Army clashed in the Shanghai First Incident (January 28 Incident) at Daba Town in Baoshan District, Shanghai on February 25, 1938. According to the advance army mobilization plan, the Japanese mobilized a large army and a large number of horses to Daba Town in Shanghai. In Shanghai's Daba Town, the corpse of a young Chinese soldier killed by Japanese soldiers was found lying in a trench. On March 1, 1932, after a fierce battle, the Japanese occupied the Chinese position in Daba Town.
Immediately after the Manchurian Incident, fighting broke out between Japanese and Chinese troops in parts of Shanghai in the First Shanghai Incident. The Japanese suppressed the anti-Japanese movement of the Chinese army toward the establishment of Manchukuo. Manipulating the Chinese in Shanghai, on January 18, 1932, they attacked Japanese monks and others, killing one and wounding two. It sparked a conflict in Shanghai, which became the center of the anti-Japanese movement. The massacre ended when the Chinese military's Shanghai unit accepted the Japanese military's request for suppression.
Immediately, Japanese troops landed in the Japanese concession in Shanghai and clashed with Chinese troops on January 28. The elite of the Chinese side, the 19th Route Army, took advantage of the terrain in the northwestern suburbs from downtown Shanghai, and the Japanese troops fell on hard times. The Imperial Japanese Army rapidly increased the number of Japanese child troops and fierce battles broke out with the Chinese forces. The concessions of the Western countries mixed in Shanghai, the Yugoslavia, the United States and France, advised the Japanese and Chinese forces to call a truce. In order to avoid the intervention of the League of Nations, which was established after World War I, Japanese forces occupied the strong Chinese position of Daba Town on March 1, 1932, just before the general assembly of the League of Nations. On March 3, the Chinese army's 19th Route Army retreated and retreated, ending the First Shanghai Incident. On May 5, the Japanese army and the Chinese army On May 5, the Japanese signed a ceasefire agreement with the Chinese.
On May 5, the Japanese army signed a ceasefire agreement with the Chinese army, and the Japanese army withdrew from Shanghai to Manchuria. During this time, on March 1, 1933, Manchukuo was founded and inaugurated. With the founding of Manchukuo, the anti-Japanese movement of the Chinese military and Western countries sharply increased their threats against the Japanese military. In the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese people honored the suicide bombing attack by Japanese soldiers at the Battle of Miao Xingzhen as the three heroes of the bombing. On April 29, when the Japanese and Chinese armies had agreed to a ceasefire, the anti-Japanese movement by the Koreans intensified when Yoon Bong-gil, a Korean, used a bomb to kill the Japanese commander in Shanghai and injure the Chinese minister, Shigemitsu Aoi.