Why didn't Japan declare war on China during World War II? What is the reason?
Since the "September 18 Incident" in 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army created the Wicker Lake Railway explosion incident, framed the Northeast Army for blowing up the "South Manchuria Railway" to provoke the incident, and the Kwantung Army took the opportunity to brazenly shell the Northeast Base Camp and plot to launch a war of aggression against the three eastern provinces.
At that time, the young marshal Zhang Xueliang withdrew from the three eastern provinces at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, handed over the great rivers and mountains to the people, and the Japanese devils occupied the eastern three provinces effortlessly.
Later, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo and supported the last emperor Puyi as a puppet emperor.
On July 7, 1937, the three eastern provinces could not satisfy the greed of the Japanese, and in order to invade and occupy all of China, the Japanese brazenly launched the "July 7" Incident, known in history as the Lugou Bridge Incident.
Japan launched an all-out war of aggression against China.
However, the Japanese devils never expected the determination of the Chinese military and people to share a vendetta against the enemy. "People do not distinguish between old and young, the land does not distinguish between north and south, every inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood", the Japanese devils fell into the ocean of anger and fell into the quagmire of war.
The war lasted until August 15, 1945, when the United States, an ally of World War II, dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and japan was blown up.
Faced with the threat of national subjugation, the Japanese devils had to declare unconditional surrender, and World War II ended, and China finally won the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
From the Japanese imperialist occupation of the three eastern provinces to the end of World War II, China and Japan fought a deadly struggle for 14 years, and the war was fought extremely fiercely and attracted the attention of the world.
Curiously, 14 years of war were fought in a state of undeclared war.
In other words, after 14 years of fighting, Japan has never written a war letter to China.
We all know that when two countries fight a war, they have to write a war book in advance.
For example, when Japan sneaked into the Aircraft Carrier of the United States anchored in Pearl Harbor, although the Japanese played a trick, they did not forget to declare war on the United States at the same time as the sneak attack.
When Germany invaded Britain and France in World War II, it issued war books to the two countries in advance, and even Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty also issued war books when she launched a war against the eleven countries of the world.
The question is, why didn't Japan declare war on China at that time?
First: When Japan invaded and occupied the three eastern provinces of China, the Japanese did not consider themselves to be aggressive, but claimed to restore the imperial system for Puyi, claiming that Japan and Manchukuo were equal diplomatic relations and that there was no aggression.
In fact, the Japanese imperialists' remarks are purely to cover their ears and steal bells, and they are all an excuse for plundering China's minerals and materials. Puyi is the puppet emperor of the Japanese.
Based on this, the Japanese will not take the initiative to declare war on China.
Second: After the July 7 Incident, Japan launched an all-out war of aggression against China, and at this time he would not take the initiative to issue a war letter to China.
Because according to the international Hague Convention at that time, whenever two countries declared war, the Allies would impose sanctions on both warring parties.
The United States, the main ally at the time, considered war between Japan and China to be an act of aggression. Due to japan's lack of domestic resources, it needs to import a large number of strategic resources from European and American countries.
An undeclared war between Japan and China could avoid economic sanctions so that Japan could keep importing resources from the United States. Based on this, Japan has been slow to issue a war letter to China
Third: Japan's invasion of China was blocked and it fell into the ocean of people's war for a while. At that time, Japan did not recognize the legal status of Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing government. In order to avoid arousing the anti-war voice of the Japanese people and to indirectly occupy all of China, Japanese militarism followed the method of establishing Manchukuo and fostered the Wang puppet regime, claiming that Wang Jingwei was the legitimate leader.
The Japanese and the Wang puppet regime are in agreement and recognize each other's equal status, so they do not consider aggression against China to be a war of aggression, so there is no such thing as a war book to the Wang puppet government.
It is worth mentioning that after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), the Chiang Kai-shek government officially declared war on Japan at the request of US President Roosevelt.
To sum up, during World War II, china had three simultaneous governments: Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing government, the Wang puppet government, and the puppet manchukuo.
Japan did not recognize Chiang Kai-shek's government, and the Allies did not recognize the puppet government supported by Japan. Therefore, Japan did not declare war on China in the end.
Last sentence: During World War II, only one small European country, San Marino, declared war on China.
San Marino covers an area of only 60 square kilometers, has a population of about 30,000 people, and the whole country is surrounded by Italy.
During World War II, the British carried out indiscriminate bombing, and when bombing the Axis power of Italy, it was inevitable that San Marino would be bombed, which is the story of "the city gate fire and the pond fish".
At that time, San Marino declared war on the Allies in a fit of rage, and China was one of the Allies, so it became the object of San Marino's declaration of war.
But the Allies did not take this matter to heart at all, San Marino was just talking, after all, the country was too small to exist.
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