| 1 | The Japanese invasion of China which began in 1937 was merciless. | |
| 2 | Others have called the quake "baoying" (karma) for Japan's occupation of China during World War II. | |
| 3 | True, the westerners' bloodshed and looting were nothing to the Japanese atrocities in China in 1931-45; and the West then, belatedly, came to China' s aid. | |
| 4 | The war of aggression against China launched by Japanese militarists not only caused a huge disaster to the Chinese people and but also brought suffering to the Japanese people. | |
| 5 | China was the biggest victim of the war of aggression launched by Japanese militarists; the Chinese people suffered enormously from Japan's War of Aggression against China. |