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Japan invaded China in 1937, creating what was essentially a three-way war between Japan, Mao Zedong's communists, and Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists. Japan took control of much China's coasts and port cities, but very carefully avoided Europeans in their enclaves. The year before their Chinese invasion, Japan signed an anti-communism treaty with Germany, and another with Italy in 1937 itself.

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