This morning all of us here in Shenyang heard the general siren for 3 minutes to commemorate Japan's invasionof China on this day. 918 九一八 is the Mukden incident of Sept 18, 1931.
The Japanese, who were previously defeated by Russia, bombed a section of the Japan-built railway near today's Shenyang, Liaoning province, my wife's hometown, then blamed Ch…