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It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century [26] and has been described as "the Asian Holocaust", in reference to the scale of Japanese war crimes against Chinese civilians. [27] [28] [29] It is known in China as the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (simplified Chinese: 抗日战争; traditional Chinese: 抗日戰爭).
The First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895), or the First China–Japan War, was a conflict between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan primarily over influence in Korea. [2]
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.
Many Japanese POWs who joined the Chinese resistance had planned to stay in China after the war. [10] Kobayashi Kancho, a Japanese POW who joined the Eighth Route Army during the war, stayed in China, where he worked at the foreign affairs office, and later the People's Hospital in Fengzhen. [11]
This is a list of military engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period.
Most women in China were profoundly impacted by the Second Sino-Japanese War (also referred to in China as the War of Resistance), in which the Empire of Japan fought the Republic of China from 1937 to 1945. Women's experiences during the war depended on a variety of factors, including class, place of origin, and social connections.
Jiajing wokou raids (1542–1567), by Chinese-led international merchant-pirates (including the Japanese) on Ming dynasty China; Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98), was a full-scale war between a Ming dynasty and Joseon coalition and the invading Japanese; Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1616), Japanese attempted conquest in Taiwan
The 1939–1940 Winter Offensive (Chinese: 冬季攻勢) was one of the major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, in which Chinese forces launched their first major counter-offensive on multiple fronts. Although this offensive failed to achieve its original ...