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Japan During The Sino Japanese War

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When most people think of World War Two they think of the Nazis and the concentration camps. They also think of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two sides, powers as they are named, of this major conflict were the Allied powers, the good guys, and the Axis Powers, the bad guys. Japan was part of Hitler’s Axis Powers and became Hitler’s eyes in the sea. Japan, prior to the 1940s, started to invade northern China and Korea. Japan gained control of Manchuria (Northern China) and all of Korea and then gained what would be known as Taiwan after the Sino-Japanese War. In the Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War Japan was fighting to gain control and prevent the Chinese and Russians from making a move on them, the Japanese, being such a small country, feared that Russia and China would try and take the power that they had built overtime. You see, in America we take classes to learn about these things, for example an Asian Studies class or a World at War class, but what about in Japan? The Japanese people experienced the war first hand, unlike the Americans who sat at home to read about it in the newspaper or watch film reels of it in the theater. The Japanese didn’t need to be educated about it because their whole country experienced the fears and horrors themselves. Even the generations following after the war would not be able to escape the tragic war stories of their ancestors, told to them by their parents and grandparents. But for Americans, we

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