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Japan Sent 1 Million Soldiers to China… And Never Won | 5 Fatal Mistakes
Nov 7, 2026
December 1937. Japanese troops march into Nanjing, the capital of China, and Tokyo celebrates. Japan's generals are sure the war is almost over and that Chiang Kai-shek will have to ask for peace. He never does.
The war goes on for eight more years. Japan wins battle after battle and sends more than a million soldiers into China, and still it never wins. In the end, its war in China drags Japan into a war with the United States, and into total defeat.
How did the strongest army in Asia lose a war it kept on winning? These are the 5 fatal mistakes of Japan's war in China: expecting a short war, turning the Chinese people against them, slamming the door on peace, holding the cities but losing the country, and choosing war with America over leaving China.
