Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - China ta yi yaƙi da Japan tare da taimakon Tarayyar Soviet da Amurka. Bayan harin Japan a kan Malaya
da Pearl Harbor a 1941, yakin ya haɗu tare da wasu rikice-rikice waɗanda galibi aka rarraba su a ƙarƙashin waɗannan rikice-rikicen na Yaƙin Duniya na II a matsayin babban ɓangaren da aka sani da China Burma India Theater. Wasu malamai suna la'akari da Yakin Turai da Yakin Pacific gaba ɗaya daban, kodayake, yaƙe-yaƙe. Sauran masana sunyi la'akari da farawar cikakken yakin Sino-Japan na biyu a 1937 ya kasance farkon yakin duniya na biyu. Yaƙin Sino-Japan na biyu shine yaƙin Asiya mafi girma a cikin karni na 20. Ya kasance mafi yawan fararen hula da sojoji da suka mutu a cikin Yaƙin Pacific, tare da fararen hula tsakanin Sinawa miliyan 10 zuwa 25 da sojoji na China da Japan sama da miliyan 4 da suka ɓace ko suka mutu daga tashin hankali da ya shafi yaƙi, yunwa, da sauran dalilai". An kira wannan yaƙin "kisan kiyashi na Asiya".