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China's resistance against Japanese aggression during World War II was a major ... Yet 80 years after the end of the brutal war, China's role still ... and nearby cities from 1938 to 1944, ...

USS Mississinewa after being hit by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo on November 20, 1944. US Navy By the end of the war, Ulithi was the world's largest naval facility, hosting as many as 617 vessels.

Some 250 miles away from Ishigaki, wariness of both U.S. and Japanese militarization runs deep on the main island of Okinawa, which was devastated by the U.S. assault during World War II.

A book recounts how precious works of art thousands of years old were taken to safety as Japan began its invasion of China in the 1930s — a part of China's history largely unknown outside Asia.