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The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. [ 24 ][ 25 ] It is considered part of World War II, and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th ...
The First Sino-Japanese War(25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895) or the First China–Japan Warwas a conflict between the Qing dynastyand the Empire of Japanprimarily over influence in Korea.[2] After more than six months of unbroken successes by Japanese land and naval forces and the loss of the port of Weihaiwei, the Qing government sued for ...
China-Japan Relations after World War Two: Empire, Industry and War, 1949–1971 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Kokubun, Ryosei, et al. eds. Japan–China Relations in the Modern Era. (Routledge, 2017). Kokubun, Ryosei. Japan–China Relations through the Lens of Chinese Politics. (Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021).
A series of wars and confrontations took place between 1880 and 1945, with Japan invading and seizing Taiwan, Manchuria and most of China. Japan was eventually defeated and withdrew in 1945. Since 1950, relations have been tense after the Korean War, the Cold War and the grievances of Japanese war crimes [ e ] committed in China and beyond.
Chinese record: 98,417+ killed and wounded [ 12 ] The Battle of Shanghai (traditional Chinese : 淞滬會戰; simplified Chinese : 淞沪会战; pinyin : Sōng hù huìzhàn) was a major battle fought between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in the Chinese city of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
In mid-1944 Japan mobilized over 500,000 men [156] and launched an operation across China under the code name Operation Ichi-Go, their largest offensive of World War II, with the goal of connecting Japanese-controlled territory in China and French Indochina and capturing airbases in southeastern China where American bombers were based. [157]
The Battle of Changde (Battle of Changteh; simplified Chinese: 常德会战; traditional Chinese: 常德會戰; pinyin: Chángdé Huìzhàn) was a major engagement in the Second Sino-Japanese War in and around the Chinese city of Changde (Changteh) in the province of Hunan. The purpose of the Japanese offensive was to maintain pressure on the ...
The Nanjing Massacre[1] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking[note 2]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and the retreat of the National Revolutionary Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army. [2][3][4][5 ...