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Comfort Women (Ianfu)
Women, primarily Korean but also Chinese and other Asian nationals, who were coerced or deceived into sexual servitude for the Japanese military during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. An estimated 200,000 women were held in "comfort stations" across Japanese-occupied Asia. The issue remains a major point of historical grievance between Japan and its Asian neighbours and has been a recurring source of diplomatic tension.
Hyperinflation (China)
The collapse of China's currency value during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War. The GMD government financed the war primarily by printing money, producing inflation that accelerated after 1945. By 1948, prices were doubling every few weeks. The failed Gold Yuan Reform (August 1948) made things worse, wiping out urban savings and destroying the credibility of the GMD government. Hyperinflation severely undermined support for the GMD among the urban middle class during the Civil War.