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It was fought Hostile_encounter over a vast area that included Cause_to_be_included the Pacific Ocean theatre , the South West Pacific theatre , the South-East Asian theatre , the Second Sino-Japanese War , and the Soviet–Japanese War .

The fighting Hostile_encounter in the Burma Campaign in 1944 was among the most severe in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II .

It also upheld New Zealand 's national interests of countering communism in South-East Asia .