The 1st Sino-Japanese War was 1894-1895. The 2nd Sino-Japanese War was the 1930's (1931, or 1933, or 1937, depending upon which history book you're reading).
Much of China's coast was occupied, and the KMT nationalists were unable/unwilling to stop them so had to retreat further inland. This puts vast amounts of China's resources in and the majority of...