Sino-Japanese War
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the war (1894–95) between China and Japan over the control of Korea that resulted in the nominal independence of Korea and the Chinese cession to Japan of Formosa and the Pescadores.
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the war that began in 1937 as a Japanese invasion of China and ended with the World War II defeat of Japan in 1945.
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A refugee from the Sino-Japanese War who fled mainland China to Hong Kong, he started a business in 1950 manufacturing plastic flowers and named it Cheung Kong after China's Yangtze River.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
She was to cover the Sino-Japanese War for “Colliers Magazine,” and he was the unwilling companion, or U.C., lovingly nicknamed by Gellhorn.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
Another theory suggests that, in the photograph, Yang was alluding to Chinese resistors during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Japan in turn sent troops to confront the Chinese, and the First Sino-Japanese War began.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
In 1895, Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War, and the Qing government had to cede Taiwan to Japan.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2022
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