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  2. Second Sino-Japanese War - Wikipedia

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    [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 century [26] and has been described as "the Asian Holocaust", in reference to the scale of Japanese war crimes against Chinese civilians.

  3. List of territories acquired by the Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan. Control over all territories except most of the Japanese mainland ( Hokkaido , Honshu , Kyushu , Shikoku , and some 6,000 small surrounding islands) was renounced by Japan in the ...

  4. List of expansion operations and planning of the Axis powers

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    Planned Japanese invasions to the South Planned Japanese invasions to the North. Advances in the China Mainland, Second Sino-Japanese War; Operation AI (Pearl Harbor strike) Operation K; Operation A (Japanese Invasion of South-East Asia in 1941) Operation E "Malayan" (Invasion of British Malaya) Operation B (Invasion of Borneo)

  5. Japan during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese invasion of Thailand led to Thailand's decision to ally itself with Japan and the other Japanese attacks led the United States, United Kingdom, China, Australia, and several other states to formally declare war on Japan, whereas the Soviet Union, being heavily involved in large-scale hostilities with European Axis countries ...

  6. List of military engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War

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    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.

  7. Sino-Japanese War - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Axis powers negotiations on the division of Asia - Wikipedia

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    The Yenisei River basin in Siberia. As the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan cemented their military alliance by mutually declaring war against the United States on December 11, 1941, the Japanese proposed a clear territorial arrangement with the two main European Axis powers concerning the Asian continent. [1]

  9. Battle of Shanghai - Wikipedia

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    Japan portal; China portal; Events preceding World War II in Asia. Jinan incident (May 1928) Huanggutun incident (Japanese assassination of the Chinese head of state Generalissimo Zhang Zuolin on 4 June 1928) Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Mukden Incident (18 September 1931) January 28 Incident (Shanghai, 1932)