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Nikolaevsk Incident [Niko Jiken]
| Inscribed 'Nikolaevsk Dispatch Army, Mountain Artillery Victorious Return Commemorative.' |
| The Nikolaevsk Incident [in Japanese this is called the Niko Jihen] happened in 1920. During the Siberian Intervention (1918-22), 'the Japanese and White Russian garrison at Nikolaevsk at the mouth of the Amur River surrendered to partisans. The Japanese broke the surrender agreement to counterattack but were defeated with heavy losses. The 136 remaining Japanese soldiers and some 350 Japanese settlers were taken prisoner. In May 1920 the partisans withdrew when threatened by a Japanese relief force after killing an estimated 700 Japanese prisoners and Russian counterrevolutionaries. Those responsible were later sentenced to death by the revolutionary government, but the Japanese demanded compensation, occupying northern Sakahalin to enforce their demands. Although Japan withdrew from Siberia in 1922, it was only in 1925, when formal relations were resumed, that she withdrew, without compensation, from Sakhalin.' from Hunter's Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History I have seen few cups with an inscription referring to this incident. I imagine that they were awarded to the relief force soldiers. Read more about this incident here on Wikipedia: NIKOLAEVSK. |
| 'Nikolaevsk.' The Japanese reading is Niko. |
| Inscribed 'Nikolaevsk, Victorious Return Commemorative, Asahigawa 27th Infantry, Sakurai.' |