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Add new Web site: Chinese History for Teachers - The Sino-Japanese War (抗日战争)Overview. Aug 28, 2026
Add new Web site: Pacific Atrocities Education - Timeline of Sino- Japanese War of 1937-1945. Jan 23, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Rewriting the history of the Second Sino-Japanese war. Dec 08, 2025
Add new Web site: Cambridge - The Legacy of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the People’s Republic of China: Mapping the Official Discourses of Memory (PDF). Oct 27, 2025
Add new Web site: ScholarWorks at UMass Boston - How Did the War Escalate and What Happened? (PDF). Jun 18, 2025
Add new Web site: J-Stage - Empire and Constitution: Why could the Second Sino-Japanese War not be prevented? (PDF). Mar 27, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - In Our Time - The Sino-Japanese War. Feb 15, 2025
Add new Web site: Boot Camp and Military Fitness Institute - What Was the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937?1945)? Dec 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Alpha History - The Second Sino Japanese War. May 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Chineseposters.net - The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Jan 05, 2024
Add new Web site: Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus - The Legacy of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the People�s Republic of China: Mapping the Official Discourses of Memory. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: Alpha History - The Second Sino Japanese War. Aug 29, 2022
Media revised. Nov 10, 2020
Corrected display issue. Mar 14, 2019
Article thoroughly revised. Dec 23, 2017
Add new Web site: The Guardian - China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter. Nov 06, 2015
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45). Nov 06, 2015
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45). Apr 22, 2015
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - The Japan-China War. Apr 22, 2015
Add new Web site: Japan 101 Information Resource - Sino-Japanese War. Feb 02, 2011
Added historical newsreel. Sep 02, 2009
Media added. Dec 01, 2008
Article revised and updated. Sep 05, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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