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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.
Japanese troops were reported to have been making efforts to take the warehouse but were beaten back each time by the Chinese after brief exchanges of fire. [34] The Japanese were reported to have assaulted the warehouse again and again with infantry attacks, but each charge was repelled by showers of hand grenades and machine-gun fire.
Japan sent Germany an ultimatum on 15 August 1914, which went unanswered; Japan then formally declared war on Germany on 23 August 1914 in the name of the Emperor Taishō. [5] As Vienna refused to withdraw the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth from Qingdao , Japan declared war on Austria-Hungary, too, on 25 August 1914.
A bicolour flag consisting of three bands; white, black, and white. 1905–1910: Flag of the Resident General of Korea. A blue ensign with the Flag of Japan in the canton. 1945–1952: Civil and naval ensign during the occupation of Japan. Derived from International maritime signal flag "E". 1797 [2] –1879: Flag of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Re-drawn with more accurate geometry and symmetry, according to this construction sheet (for IJN): File:Naval Ensign of Japan (Construction sheet).svg, valid also for Imperial Japanese Army but with the "Sun" centered. Now the 16 rays of the sun each have the same angle (11.250°); same angular opening (11.250°) for the 16 white spaces: 32 ...
In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War began with a Japanese invasion of China, and the resulting warfare laid waste to China. Most of the prosperous east coast was occupied by the Japanese, who committed atrocities such as the Nanjing massacre. In one anti-guerilla sweep in 1942, the Japanese killed up to 200,000 civilians in a month.
This is the order of battle for the January 28 incident, also known as the first Shanghai incident, in 1932. This was a brief war between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan that occurred prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War. Because the Japanese assumed the tactical initiative, their forces are listed first.
Flag Duration Use Description 1 July 1997 – present: Flag of Hong Kong [2]: A white, five-petal Bauhinia blakeana on a red field with 1 star on each of the petals. The Chinese name of Bauhinia × blakeana has also been frequently shortened as 紫荊/紫荆 (洋 yáng means "foreign" in Chinese, and this would be deemed inappropriate by the PRC government), although 紫荊/紫荆 refers to ...