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
Chiung Yao spent part of her childhood in mainland China as her family moved across the country during the Sino-Japanese War.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2024
The Self-Strengthening Movement received a serious blow in 1895 with China’s defeat by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
The annual event commemorates the Marco Polo Bridge incident, a July 1937 conflict between Chinese and Japanese troops near the bridge outside Beijing, which triggered the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021
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