Record of Japan's Military Defeat - The Fall of the Sun Flag

Author: Cheng Jingwu Qian
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book mainly introduces some major battles where Japan suffered a humiliating defeat in the history of modern warfare, with detailed information. Before World War II, Japan claimed it had not lost any foreign wars in nearly 600 years. Whether this statement is true or false, in the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, and the Japan-German War, the Japanese army indeed had the upper hand. The Japanese militarists, who glorified military power, became overconfident and carried out extensive foreign expansion. During World War II, Japan's ambitions were almost limitless. The Japanese army first launched the invasion of China, then provoked conflicts in the Far East of the Soviet Union, and subsequently fought the U.S. in the Pacific. However, looking back at the operational history of the Japanese army during WWII, it was a series of defeats. The aggressive expansionist ambitions of Japanese militarism brought disasters to many countries in Asia during the war. In fact, this war, which had no chance of winning, was doomed to failure from the very beginning.