Lytton Report (リットン調査団, Ritton Chōsandan) was a report generated by a League of Nations commission in December 1931 to try to determine the causes of the Mukden Incident which led to the Empire of Japan’s seizure of Manchuria.

Contents

• 1 The Commission
• 2 The Lytton Report
• 3 Consequences
• 4 References
• 5 External links

The Commission

The Lytton Commission was headed by V. A. G. R. Bulwer-Lytton, the second Earl of Lytton of the United Kingdom, and included four other men, one each from the US (Major General Frank Ross McCoy), Germany (Dr. Heinrich Schnee), Italy (Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti), and France (General Henri Claudel). The group spent six weeks in Manchuria in spring 1932 on a fact-finding mission, after meeting with government leaders in the Republic of China and in Japan. It was hoped that the report generated by the Commission would help defuse the growing hostilities between Japan and China and would thus help maintain peace and stability in the Far East.