The Mukden Incident in late 1931, provided an excuse for what Japanese action later that year?

Question

What kind of ship was the Japanese "Hōshō", commissioned on 27 December 1922, the first purpose-designed ship of its kind to be commissioned anywhere in the world?

Answer 1

Invasion of Manchuria
In the Mukden Incident a small section of trackbed near the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway was sabotaged. The explosion was limited in effect, and did not affect the passage of trains. Japan blamed Chinese dissidents, and used the incident as a reason to invade. In 1932 the sabotage was established as having been carried out by the Japanese themselves.