Here Is China Part 1 - World War II Documentary - Second Sino-Japanese War (1944)

The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 -- September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany (see Sino-German cooperation (1911--1941)), the Soviet Union (1937--1940) and the United States (see American Volunteer Group). After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. It also made up more than 50% of the casualties in the Pacific War if the 1937--1941 period is taken into account.

Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. At the same time, the rising tide of Chinese nationalism and notions of self-determination stoked the coals of war. Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called "incidents". Yet the two sides, for a variety of reasons, refrained from fighting a total war. In 1931, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by Japan's Kwantung Army followed the Mukden Incident. The last of these incidents was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, marking the beginning of total war between the two countries.

In China, the war is most commonly known as the War of Resistance Against Japan (simplified Chinese: 抗日战争; traditional Chinese: 抗日戰爭), and also known as the Eight Years' War of Resistance(simplified Chinese: 八年抗战; traditional Chinese: 八年抗戰), simply War of Resistance (simplified Chinese: 抗战; traditional Chinese: 抗戰), or Second Sino-Japanese War (simplified Chinese: 第二次中日战争; traditional Chinese: 第二次中日戰爭).

In Japan, the name "Japan--China War" (日中戰爭, Nitchū Sensō?) is most commonly used because of its perceived objectivity. In Japan today, it is written as 日中戦争 in shinjitai. When the war began in July 1937 near Beijing, the government of Japan used "The North China Incident" (華北事變, Kahoku Jihen?), and with the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai the following month, it was changed to "The China Incident" (支那事變, Shina Jihen?).

The word "incident" (事變, jihen?) was used by Japan, as neither country had made a formal declaration of war. Japan wanted to avoid intervention by other countries, particularly the United Kingdom and the United States, which were her primary source of petroleum; the United States was also her biggest supplier of steel. American President Franklin D. Roosevelt would have been forced to impose an embargo on Japan in observance of the American Neutrality Acts had the fighting been formally escalated to "general war".

In Japanese propaganda however, the invasion of China became a "holy war" (seisen), the first step of the Hakkō ichiu (八紘一宇?, eight corners of the world under one roof). In 1940, Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe launched the Taisei Yokusankai. When both sides formally declared war in December 1941, the name was replaced by "Greater East Asia War" (大東亞戰爭, Daitōa Sensō?).

Although the Japanese government still uses the term "China Incident" in formal documents, because the word Shina is considered a derogatory word by China, the media in Japan often paraphrase with other expressions like "The Japan--China Incident" (日華事變, Nikka Jihen?, 日支事變 Nisshi Jihen), which were used by media even in the 1930s.

In addition, the name "Second Sino-Japanese War" is not usually used in Japan, as the First Sino-Japanese War (日清戦争, Nisshin--Sensō?) between Japan and the Qing Dynasty in 1894 is not regarded to have obvious direct linkage to the second, between Japan and the Republic of China.

Clifton P. "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, radio and television personality.

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[petervalientes]

China is beautiful without the communist

[yamahaU3]

LMAO at the fish joke at start.

[redorchestrasniper]

@ucg3437 fuck u ok do u kow how the japanese treated china during world war 2, the japanese hung them, buried them alive, raped them, and even shot random civilians for no reason, so if u wanna be a heartless bitch then go ahead and support those heartless fools.

[redorchestrasniper]

@ucg3437 Hey fucker do u know how the japanese treated china during world war 2. They buried chinese alive, hung them, raped them, and randomly killed civilians, so if u r a heartless person then go ahead support japan and their heartless people.

[qone12]

@PugusGrapes I will say this now your own statement said everything, your showing your own by calling another dumb. Everyone is as dumb as the person next to them because we are going off past knowledge of a topic from someone else and it does not always mean it's right.

[Microglia1]

@TheDualEconomist What do you mean by "superior"? Your architecture is dominated by Greek columns (Greeks are NOT caucasian and not even white), your writing is entirely Roman scripts, your religion is Judaic, and much of your science is copied or borrowed from the Middle East and South/East Asia. The founder of "Western civilization" are the Egyptians...who are neither white nor European. Largest economies today? China, Japan, USA (not European). U know nothing.

[TheDualEconomist]

@Microglia1 Because tests determine IQ scores. when it comes to innovation and actually putting that knowledge to use. Caucasian peoples are far superior.

[ucg3437]

I am supporting japan.fuck china LONG LİVE EAST TURKİSTAN.

[jlqt5]

@adErsante see my comment to "happyboyy8k".

the definition of communism is better than capitalism. the reason why a lot of US citizens hate the government and go "fuck the police" is due to capitalism. no matter what, you hate your government do you not?

in practice, communism is much harder to achieve. china has strayed from communism since chairman mao's days.

[jlqt5]

@happyboyy8k

1. china is not purely communist. i think china is more socailist than communist at the moment.

2. here is the debate about marxism (communism). by definition, capitalism is flawed. look at europe and wall street. look at greece. that's why it is flawed. communism was an idea to avoid this. by definition, communism is the way to go. in practice, it is a different story

3. marx made a mistake, but not on communism. he didn't consider anything between capitalism and communism.