Talk:Second Sino-Japanese War

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Can it be confirmed that this title does come from the Target novelisation? The BTS section on World War II states that "Hostilities between China and Japan during the 1930s were first alluded to" in this novelisation, but claims that the conflict has not been given this name in the DWU. Is that false? 06:27, April 16, 2020 (UTC)
 * The closest reference to the war in the book is this (at least that I could find):
 * ‘This one is playing tricks again,’ said the first man, referring to a notebook. ‘Control says it made delivery to America 1862, but failed to deliver to the German side in the 1917 Zone and to the Roman war.’ He looked up. ‘Now the Chinese sector wants more specimens to fight the Japanese in 1936.
 * Danochy ☎  06:43, April 16, 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I've added a conjecture tag. 07:03, April 16, 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll chip in a bit. At least five stories mention this conflict in some way - Doctor Who and the War Games, The Shadow of Weng-Chiang, The Year of Intelligent Tigers, Log 384 and Captain Jack Harkness - but I've yet to come across any mention of the Second Sino-Japanese War by name. I've managed to perform word-searches on all TV episode transcripts as well as most novels and short story anthologies and the name isn't used in any of them (The closest I've come across is the 1940 "Sino-Japanese Peace" in Doctor Who and the Rebel's Gamble, a gamebook).


 * I could be wrong, though. It is possible that it's used in a comic, an audio story or relatively recent releases like, say, The Target Storybook. But sifting through everything in search of a single, possibly off-hand reference could take yonks, unless someone has another script database somewhere. All I know for now is that "Second Sino-Japanese War" isn't used in any First, Second or Third Doctor era stories from any medium. Even then, if Shadow of W-C or Log 384, which are both about this very conflict, fail to name it, then it seems very unlikely any other story has to date. So until something new crops up, that's why I tend to group all this information with the Pacific War (which, incidentally, only one story I know of has ever named as such). TheCoud&#39;veBeenKing ☎  21:17, June 23, 2020 (UTC)