The second Sino-Japanese war started in 1937 after the two countries clashed near the Marco Polo Bridge. As Japan occupied more and more territory, it established the North China Railway Company ...

In 1945, the year Ran was born, China won the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45). Ran's own mother entrusted him to the care of his foster mother before she fled back to Japan.

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan’s ties with the opium trade in China is now in ... Volume one runs through 1937, when the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out.