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In 1939, a movie called Mulan Joins the Army (木兰从军) was released, in which the story of Mulan was rewritten to show her taking action against the "foreign invaders" (which mirrored China's current situation against the Japanese) and included not-so-subtle parallels to events that happened in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Onna-musha (女武者) is a term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, [1] [2] who were members of the bushi class. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war; [3] [4] many of them fought in battle alongside samurai men. [5] [6]
During the Battle of Shanghai, part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese military forces advanced upon and attacked Shanghai, China's most populous city.Wong and other newsreel men, such as Harrison Forman and George Krainukov, captured many images of the fighting, including the gruesome aftermath of an aerial bombing made by three Japanese aircraft against two prominent hotels on Nanking ...
After the war, she appeared in Japanese movies under her real name, as well as in several English language movies under the stage name, Shirley Yamaguchi. After becoming a journalist in the 1950s under the name Yoshiko Ōtaka ( 大鷹 淑子 , Ōtaka Yoshiko ) , she was elected as a member of the Japanese parliament in 1974, and served for 18 ...
Nanking (Chinese: 南京) is a 2007 documentary film about the Nanjing Massacre, committed in 1937 by the Japanese army in the former capital city Nanjing, China.It was inspired by Iris Chang's book The Rape of Nanking (1997), which discussed the persecution and murder of the Chinese by the Imperial Japanese Army in the then-capital of Nanjing at the outset of the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
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. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] It is considered part of World War II , and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia.
By the start of December, Japan's Central China Area Army had swollen in strength to over 160,000 men, [63] though only about 70,000 of these would ultimately participate in the fighting. [64] The plan of attack against Nanjing was a pincer movement which the Japanese called "encirclement and annihilation".
Between 1937 and 1945, Japan’s military leaders commissioned official war artists to create images of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War. Approximately 200 pictures depicting Japan’s military campaigns were created. These pictures were presented at large-scale exhibitions during the war years. [2]