The Japanese are pretty good at writing their own history as well. The museum at the Yasukuni Shrine is a disgrace that portrays Japan as a liberator of the Asian people but fails to mention the misery, murder,rape and destruction they caused. It portrays a gross distortion of history that many Japanese now believe as fact. Even the building of the Thai Burma railway with its 100,000 deaths is shown as a great achievement.
Up to 10 million Chinese died at the hands of the Japanese including up to 300,000 in the Rape if Nanjing. Japan has never apologized or come to terms with their past like Germany has. That's why none of their Asian neighbors really trust them, even now.
The Nationalist Chinese army under Chiangmai Kai Shek spent most of the war building up their forces and avoiding the Japanese. They wanted to be strong to fight the real battle with the communists when the war ended. The communists mounted a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese but again was eyeing the bigger picture of the civil war after the Japanese were gone.
The Japanese weren't defeated in China. They lost the war in the pacific and Burma and had to surrender in China as a result.
Nice parade though