Although Beijing regime boasts that China defeated Japan in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), it is simply not true; instead, the fact is that China was defeated by Japan throughout the eight-year Sino-Japanese War, and that both the Beijing regime and the KMT regime (before year 2000) exaggerate the casualties the Japanese army suffered in China during the Sino-Japanese War.

Two-thirds of the Japanese soldiers who died in the Second World War were killed by the American soldiers from 1942 to 1945, whereas less than 22% were killed by the Chinese soldiers from 1937 to 1945.

During the Second World War, the Japanese armed forces focused their combat in Southeast Asia (to grab raw materials and energy resources) and later at sea (to fend off the imminent American landing on Japan); China was never a major battlefield during the Second World War.

During the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), the Chinese troops failed to exterminate even a Japanese battalion, nor were they able to recapture a medium-sized Japanese-occupied Chinese city.