Capture of Jinan

Date: May 11, 1928 • Location: Jinan, China

After a week-long standoff punctuated by military clashes, Japanese forces captured the city of Jinan, Shandong in China.

The Jinan incident or 3 May Tragedy began as a 3 May 1928 dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army (NRA) and Japanese soldiers and civilians in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province in China, which then escalated into an armed conflict between the NRA and the Imperial Japanese Army.