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How did Zhejiang change during the Japanese occupation of the Sino-Japanese War?
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Dashan (“Great Mercy”) Pagoda, Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, China.
During the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the Japanese military occupied much of the province of Zhejiang after 1938. Despite this widespread occupation, the harbour at Wenzhou remained under Chinese control for several years, until it was eventually taken by Japanese forces in 1942.1