When a Toilet Break Led to War Between China and Japan

The Second Sino-Japanese War flared up for quite an amusing reason. One Japanese soldier spent too long in the bathroom and his compatriots decided he'd been taken captive. So began the cruelest bloody war full of torture, mass executions, and chemical attacks, which lasted for eight years.


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