Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

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military conflict theater of World War II war

The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a major conflict between China and Japan that became one of the largest and bloodiest theaters of World War II in East Asia.

Aliases (24)

Second Sino-Japanese War ×227
Japanese invasion of China ×7
Second Sino-Japanese War period ×4
Second Sino–Japanese War ×4
Chinese theater of World War II ×3
Second Sino-Japanese War era ×3
War of Resistance Against Japan ×3
War of Resistance against Japan ×3
China theater of World War II ×2
Second Sino-Japanese War campaigns ×2
China theater of World War II (Asian-Pacific War context) ×1
Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ×1
Chinese War of Resistance against Japan ×1
Japanese campaign to secure northern and central China ×1
Japanese invasion of China (1937) ×1
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ×1
Second Sino-Japanese War China theater ×1
Second Sino-Japanese conflict (interwar period) ×1
Second Sino‑Japanese War ×1
Second World War in China ×1
Sino-Japanese conflict ×1
Sino-Japanese conflicts ×1
World War II in Asia ×1
World War II in China ×1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	military conflict → theater of World War II → war →
aftermath	Chinese Civil War resumed → occupation of Japan by Allied forces → rise of the Chinese Communist Party →
alsoKnownAs	Second Sino-Japanese War →
belligerent	Allied powers → Chinese Communist Party forces → Empire of Japan → Republic of China → Soviet Union → United Kingdom → United States →
casualties	hundreds of thousands of Japanese military deaths → millions of Chinese military and civilian deaths →
characterizedBy	occupation of large parts of China by Japan → total war → widespread atrocities →
commander	Chiang Kai-shek → Emperor Hirohito → Hideki Tojo → Mao Zedong →
endDate	1945-09-02 →
front	China theater of World War II →
hasCause	Japanese expansionism in East Asia → Marco Polo Bridge Incident →
location	China → East Asia →
opponent	Axis powers → Empire of Japan →
partOf	World War II →
precededBy	First Sino-Japanese War →
result	Allied victory → defeat of the Empire of Japan → restoration of Chinese sovereignty over most occupied territories →
significantEvent	Battle of Changde → Battle of Changsha → Battle of Guangzhou → Battle of Hong Kong → Battle of Shanghai (1937) → Battle of Taierzhuang → Battle of Wuhan → Battle of Wuhan air campaign → Battle of Xuzhou → Burma campaign → Marco Polo Bridge Incident → Nanjing Massacre → Operation Ichi-Go → Wuhan campaign →
startDate	1937-07-07 →
treatyOrAgreement	Cairo Declaration → Japanese Instrument of Surrender → Potsdam Declaration →

Referenced by (273)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
29th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → 5th War Zone of the National Revolutionary Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Abe Nobuyuki ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Aichi D1A ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → American Volunteer Group ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Anami Korechika ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan ("Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)") → Battle of Beiping–Tianjin ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Changde ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Nanjing ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Shanghai (1937) ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Taierzhuang ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Taiyuan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Wuhan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Xuzhou ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Canton Operation ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Central Army of the Kuomintang ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Central Army of the Kuomintang ("War of Resistance against Japan") → Central China Front ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chiang Chieh-shih ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → China Expeditionary Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chinese 71st Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chinese 87th Division ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chinese 88th Division ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chinese Communist Party forces ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chinese Red Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chuichi Nagumo ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Claire Lee Chennault ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Flying Tigers ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Guomin Gemingjun ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Hata Shunroku ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → He Yingqin ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Hisaichi Terauchi ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Hsu Yung-chang ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Hu Zongnan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Hyakutake Seikichi ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Imperial General Headquarters ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Imperial Japanese Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Imperial Japanese Army Air Service ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Imperial Japanese Army Air Service ("Second World War in China") → Imperial Japanese Army General Staff ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Imperial Japanese Navy ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Isamu Yokoyama ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Ishiwara Kanji ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Isogai Rensuke ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Itagaki Seishirō ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Iwane Matsui ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese 10th Division ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese 11th Division ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese 3rd Division ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese Central China Area Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese Central China Area Army commanders ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese China Garrison Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese North China Area Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese cruiser Chokai ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese cruiser Yubari ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese occupation of Guangzhou ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese occupation of North China ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese occupation of Shanghai ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Jisaburō Ozawa ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Kiyoshi Katsuki ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Koiso Kuniaki ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Kwantung Leased Territory ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Ledo Road ("Second Sino–Japanese War") → Lin Biao ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Matsui Iwane ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Mengjiang ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Minami Jirō ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Mitsubishi Ki-21 ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Mitsuo Fuchida ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Mutaguchi Renya ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → National Revolutionary Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → National Revolutionary Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → National Revolutionary Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → National Revolutionary Army 8th Route Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → New Fourth Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → New Fourth Army ("War of Resistance Against Japan") → New Fourth Army Incident ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Okamura Yasuji ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Operation Go ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Operation Ichi-Go ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Operation Kogo ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Operation Togo 1 ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Osami Nagano ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Otozō Yamada ("Second Sino–Japanese War") → Peng Dehuai ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Prince Asaka Yasuhiko ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Republic of China Air Force ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Rikusentai ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Sakai Takashi ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Sasebo Naval Arsenal ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Second United Front ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Shigeyoshi Inoue ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Shojiro Iida ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Song Zheyuan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → South China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Sun Lianzhong ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Tairiku Datsū Sakusen ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Tang Enbo ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Tomoyuki Yamashita ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Vasily Chuikov ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Wuhan campaign ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Xin Si Jun ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Xin Si Jun ("War of Resistance Against Japan") → Xue Yue ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Yang Hucheng ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Yoshijiro Umezu ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Yu Chengwan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Zhang Fakui ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Zhang Zhizhong ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → 山下奉文 ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	conflict
Bai Chongxi ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chen Yi ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chinese Communist Party ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Choe Yong-gon ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Deng Xiaoping ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Hata Shunroku ("Japanese invasion of China") → Hiryu ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Isogai Rensuke ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Itagaki Seishirō ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese 10th Division ("Japanese invasion of China") → Japanese 5th Division ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese battleship Mutsu ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Jirō Minami ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Li Zongren ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Liu Shaoqi ("War of Resistance Against Japan") → Norman Bethune ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Norman Bethune ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Okamura Yasuji ("Japanese invasion of China") → Sōryū ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Teng Daiyuan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Xiang Ying ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Yan Xishan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Ye Ting ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	participatedIn
Battle of Beiping–Tianjin ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Changde ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Changsha ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Guangzhou ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Nanjing ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Shanghai (1937) ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Taierzhuang ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Taiyuan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Wuhan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Xuzhou ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Xuzhou ("Japanese campaign to secure northern and central China") → Canton Operation ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese occupation of China ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese occupation of Guangzhou ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese occupation of Manchuria ("Second Sino-Japanese conflict (interwar period)") → Japanese occupation of North China ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese occupation of Shanghai ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Marco Polo Bridge Incident ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Nanjing Massacre ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Operation Ichi-Go ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → South China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Wuhan campaign ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Wuhan campaign ("Japanese invasion of China") →	partOf
Battle of Beiping–Tianjin ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Battle of Guangzhou ("Second Sino-Japanese War era") → Battle of Wuhan ("Second Sino-Japanese War era") → Burma Road ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → In Memory of Norman Bethune ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Marco Polo Bridge ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Matsui Iwane ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Military Affairs Commission of the National Government of China ("World War II in China") → On Guerrilla Warfare ("Second Sino-Japanese War era") → Taierzhuang ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	historicalPeriod
Chen Cheng ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Chiang Kai-shek ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Hideki Tojo ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Isamu Chō ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Isoroku Yamamoto ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Osami Nagano ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Zhou Enlai ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Zhu De ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	participantIn
Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Fiat BR.20 Cicogna ("Second Sino‑Japanese War") → Fiat CR.32 ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Field Marshal (Imperial Japanese Army) ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Nakajima B5N ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Nakajima Ki-27 ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Tachikawa Ki-36 ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Type 38 rifle ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	usedInConflict
Guomin Gemingjun ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Imperial General Headquarters ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese colonial empire ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Military Affairs Commission of the National Government of China ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → National Revolutionary Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Taiwan under Japanese rule ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	significantEvent
Battle of Changde ("Chinese theater of World War II") → Battle of Nanjing ("Chinese theater of World War II") → Battle of Shanghai (1937) ("China theater of World War II (Asian-Pacific War context)") → Chinese 88th Division ("Chinese theater of World War II") → Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army ("China theater of World War II") →	theater
Defense of the Great Wall ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Marco Polo Bridge Incident ("World War II in Asia") → National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Second United Front ("Sino-Japanese conflicts") →	relatedTo
Japanese Kwantung Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Ministry of War of Japan ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	activeDuring
Chinese Civil War (early phase) ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese occupation of Manchuria ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Japanese occupation of Manchuria ("Japanese invasion of China (1937)") →	followedBy
First Fleet ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Second Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	activeInConflict
Hopei–Chahar region ("Second Sino–Japanese War") → Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	conflictContext
Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ("Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression") → Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	dedicatedTo
Chinese Revolution ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → World War II →	hasPart
Kominka movement ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → On Protracted War ("Japanese invasion of China") →	historicalContext
Central China Front ("Second Sino-Japanese War period") → Japanese North China Area Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War period") →	historicalEra
On Protracted War ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Xi’an Incident ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	mainSubject
Chen Yi ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Sun Lianzhong ("War of Resistance against Japan") →	militaryConflict
Pacific War ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → War of Liberation ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	precededBy
Mukden Incident ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → South China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War ("War of Resistance against Japan") →	relatedConflict
Kure Naval Arsenal ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → Rear Admiral (Imperial Japanese Navy) ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	usedDuringConflict
On New Democracy ("Second Sino-Japanese War") → On Protracted War ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	writtenDuring
Imperial Japanese Army Academy ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	activeDuringConflict
He Yingqin ("Second Sino-Japanese War period") →	activeYears
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	alsoKnownAs
Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	associatedWith
Yan'an ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	associatedWithEvent
Liu Bocheng ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	battle
Nakajima Ki-27 ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	combatDebut
Battle of Guangzhou ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	conflictOf
Martha Gellhorn ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	coveredConflict
Kido Butai ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	engagedInConflict
Mitsubishi A6M Zero ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	enteredCombat
5th War Zone of the National Revolutionary Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War period") →	era
Mengjiang ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	existedDuring
Chinese Expeditionary Force ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	formedDuring
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ("China theater of World War II") →	front
Second United Front ("Japanese invasion of China") →	hasCause
Fumimaro Konoe ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	headOfGovernmentDuring
Changde ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	historicalPeriodOfImportance
Mao Fumei ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	killedIn
Interwar period ("Sino-Japanese conflict") →	mainConflict
China Theater ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	majorCampaign
Shōwa era ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	majorEvent
Xue Yue ("Second Sino-Japanese War China theater") →	militaryTheater
Japanese cruiser Yubari ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	navalTheater
Emperor Hirohito ("Japanese invasion of China") →	notableEvent
Aichi Kokuki ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	operatedDuringConflict
Shōwa era ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	periodIncludes
Masaharu Homma ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	servedIn
Xue Yue ("Second Sino-Japanese War campaigns") →	serviceIn
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	setInPeriod
On Protracted War ("Chinese War of Resistance against Japan") →	setting
Japanese Central China Area Army ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	timePeriod
Selected Works of Mao Zedong ("Second Sino–Japanese War") →	timePeriodCovered
Yokosuka Naval Arsenal ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	usedDuring
Taierzhuang ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	war
Tang County, Hebei, China ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	warContext
Changde ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	wasBattlegroundIn
Manchuria ("Second Sino-Japanese War campaigns") →	wasSiteOf
On Guerrilla Warfare ("Second Sino-Japanese War") →	writtenInContextOf