 When both sides formally declared war in December 1941, the name was replaced by "Greater East Asia War" ().Although the Japanese government still uses the term "China Incident" in formal documents, the word "Shina" is considered derogatory by China and therefore the media in Japan often paraphrase with other expressions like "The Japan–China Incident" (), which were used by media as early as the 1930s.The name "Second Sino-Japanese War" is not commonly used in Japan as the war it fought with the Qing dynasty in 1894 is called the Qing-Japanese War () rather than the First Sino-Japanese War.