Japanese army was defeated by CHINESE mainly, and the Japanese navy was defeated by the US. So it would be a laughing stock if the US takes ALL the credit. Even if the US had not used A-Bomb on Japan, Japan would have surrendered.
You're saying you guys had 'em on the ropes and we finished 'em off or something. Whatever.
I assume this is pretty correct:
Japan invaded China proper in July 1937, launching the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese Kwantung Army turned a small incident into a full scale war. The well equipped Japanese forces rapidly occupied almost the entire Chinese coast of China and ten moved up rivers and railroad lines into the interior. The Japanese in the process committed war atrocities on an unpresidented level against the Chinese civilian population. The most savage of these explosions of barbarity was the Rape of Nanking, after the fall of the capital Nanking. Here European diplomats and missionaries witnessed the brutality of the Japanese. It should be noted that these attrocities were not inherent in the Japanese caharacter. The Japanese conduct and treatment of both prisionors and civilians during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I had been correct and in accordance with accepted international standards. The Japanese military invading China behaved very differently. Despite the Japnese onslaught, the Chinese government never surrendered. America even before entering the war against Japan funelled supplies to the Chinese through Burma. A covert operation set up the Flying Tigers to provide the Chinese a creditable air capability. The Chinese achieved no real military victories, but the Japanese were never able to defeat them. They moved further inland, setting up a new capital Kumintang. The War continued on a lower scale, but envolving the continued deployment of the bulk of the Japanese Army.
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China did offer a valuable service to the war against Japan. They never surrendered, just retreated deeper into the country. Simply by not surrendering, they tied down 1 million Japanese troops which Japan could have used elsewhere.
What I don't understand is why the Japanese were so cruel to the Chinese during the war.
When searching for Chinese victories against Japan, I did come up with a mention of Houston's Yao Ming:
Yao Leads China into Semi-finals with Rout of Japan
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