Why did Japan plunge into the quagmire of what the Japanese call the "Sino-Japanese War" and what actually was the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression?

为什么日本要毅然陷入在日本看来是泥潭的“中日战争”？抗日战争究竟实质又是什么？

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The courses that I teach include Basic Japanese, College Japanese, Japanese a Foreign Language, Japanese-Chinese Translation, Survey of Japan, Appreciation of Japanese Literature.

主要教授课程：基础日语、大外日语、日语二外、日汉互译、日本概况、日本文学赏析等。

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Admiral Nimitz of the Navy wanted to capture the small groups of Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, then seize Taiwan,and finally attack Japan itself.

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So I think it's important that they know some other things that the children in Japan are doing now. In fact, we have Japanese e-pals, which is really a great deal of fun.

我认为让孩子们知道,日本小孩所做的别的事情也很重要,实际上，我们有日本网友，这给我们带来了很多乐趣。

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and I studied Japanese, and I lived in Japan for a semester,

我学过日语，还在日本住过一个学期，

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If you have visited Japan, lived there, or had personal or business relationships with Japanese people, you know that Japan and the Japanese are special.

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Certainly any local edge that big Japanese agencies might once have been able to claim has gone: the western agencies in Japan all employ Japanese copywriters who are just as good at churning out the surreal ads that Japanese consumers like.

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This company outing was to be the biggest tourist group since this summer when Japanese visa regulations were relaxed and the pool of potential Chinese tourists to Japan aligned to Japanese Ministry guidelines regarding job and income levels increased to about 20 million.

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