"Researching Sino Japanese 1932 plus" Topic

I am currently doing some research into Japanese v's Chinese actions from 1932 until the end of WW2.
I have found some helpful web sites, and a few rather frustrating ones too.

If anyone can help with some information it would be appreciated. I am trying to formulate about half a dozen decent battle scenario's for actions of a few battalions per side at most, and down to one or two at least.

Mal,

This may be of interest

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You may find other info on the Axis History Forum if you have'nt looked there already.

Thanks Tarleton. Some of those photographs were helpful. Especially the old Krupp pre WW1 artillery still in front line service!

Glad to be of assistance.

Mal, here's some information about the Japanese Army's Type 89 medium tank from a defunct website that I've accessed through the Internet Archive:

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Unfortunately, the color plates aren't showing up in the pop-ups. If I can find them somehow, I'll link them to here. By the way, you going 15mm or 25/28mm for this?

Thanks Saginaw. I was able to access the colour.

The scale is not all that important as the research is for a wargames scenario book. Personally I use 15mm, but scale will be up to the readers.

Good luck with the research Mal, I attempted a similar feat a couple of years back, but gave up when I realised that much of the information I was looking for wasn't that easy to locate; "History of the Sino-Japanese war (1937–1945)" by Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai of course is the first English-language source just about everyone turns to, but much of the stuff in it is too condensed for my liking. Then there's the various Chinese sites accessible only through Babelfish; the information on them however is unreliable and difficult if not to confirm.

Of course, there's a whole plethora of apparently detailed books in Chinese, with the main problem being that they're in Chinese.

You're probably already aware of it, but the following thread over at the Axis History forum makes for essential reading:

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Thanks.
I am having far more success than I expected. However it is requiring a lot of time as the information is usually achievable via clicking links, then links, then links for the links and so forth. You can spend a couple of hours or more wasted on dead ends, for every useful find. But the finds are there. In some cases I need the help of translation services, which can be wasted if the final information is only of a general kind, rather than specific.

But I have the time and I have the patience. So I am pressing on.

the information is usually achievable via clicking links, then links, then links for the links and so forth. You can spend a couple of hours or more wasted on dead ends, for every useful find.

Exactly.

Probably the most consistent thing about the information I am finding is that there is not a lot of consistent information.