The Defense of Kokang was the failed Japanese attempt to invade and occupy Kokang.
Background Kokang was a Han Chinese ruled and populated chiefdom (Tusi) founded by a member of the Ming dynasty imperial guard at Nanjing in the 17th-18th centuries which came under British Burma in 1897 after a border agreement between the Qing dynasty and Britain.
Battle Kokang Self-Defence Force under the command of the 11th Army Group of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. They killed 80 Japanese and Shan in an ambush attack on a temple and defeated the attempted Japanese invasion of Kokang.
Japan never managed to occupy Kokang unlike the rest of British Burma which it occupied.
See also Yenangyaung Battle of Toungoo Chinese Army in India New 1st Army Du Yuming Sun Liren National Revolutionary Army
Notes
Sources Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China. Pg. 377
External links
Topographic map of Yenangyaung Postcard "Battle of Yenangyaung" https://web.archive.org/web/20080306041004/http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/sun/honor.html