In early 1940, troops of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) moved to seize Longzhou in south Guangxi, where the eastern branch of the railroad from Hanoi reaches the border, and also tried to move west to cut the rail line to Kunming.
French | French language | French Revolution | French people | Japanese language | Japanese people | French Navy | French Open | French Foreign Legion | Second Sino-Japanese War | Imperial Japanese Navy | French Resistance | First French Empire | French Army | French and Indian War | Imperial Japanese Army | 2003 invasion of Iraq | French Riviera | Old French | French cuisine | French Communist Party | French Air Force | French-speaking Quebecer | Indochina | French Indochina | French literature | Japanese yen | Japanese television drama | French Polynesia | Dawn French |
In September 1940 a group of Japanese officers, in spite of an agreement signed the 22nd, attacked Đồng Đăng and laid siege to Lam Sơn, beginning the Japanese invasion of French Indochina.
In September 1940, during World War II, the newly created regime of Vichy France granted Japan's demands for military access to Tonkin following the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, which lasted until the end of the Pacific War.