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This article is largely based on Japanese military sources from 1937, written during the time when Japan was occupying China. The article's repeated assertions about the supposedly defensive and civilian-friendly intentions of the Japanese are controversial and non-neutral, to say the least. Please help improve with reliable secondary sources. Universaladdress ( talk) 23:10, 9 September 2012 (UTC) reply