First Sino-Japanese War

First Sino-Japanese War
Date 1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895 (8 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) Location Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan, Yellow Sea Result Japanese victory A significant loss of prestige for the Qing Empire Joseon removed from the Qing Empire's vassalage Korean Peninsula transferred to Japanese sphere of influence Territorial changes Qing Empire cedes Taiwan, Penghu, and the Liaodong Peninsula to the Empire of Japan
Belligerents
Qing dynasty	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Guangxu Emperor Empress Dowager Cixi Li Hongzhang Liu Kunyi Song Qing Ding Ruchang †	Meiji Emperor Yamagata Aritomo Itō Sukeyuki Nozu Michitsura Ōyama Iwao
Strength
630,000 men	240,616 men
Casualties and losses
35,000 dead or wounded	1,132 dead, 3,758 wounded 285 died of wounds 11,894 died of disease

First Sino-Japanese War
War of Jiawu – referring to the year 1894 under the traditional sexagenary system
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese	甲午战争
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiǎwǔ Zhànzhēng
Japan–Qing War
Kanji	日清戦争
Kyūjitai	日清戰爭
Transcriptions Romanization Nisshin sensō

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jiǎwǔ Zhànzhēng

Transcriptions
Romanization	Nisshin sensō

Japanese victory

The First Sino-Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between the Qing Empire of China and the Empire of Japan, primarily over control of Korea. After more than six months of unbroken successes by Japanese land and naval forces and the loss of the Chinese port of Weihaiwei, the Qing government sued for peace in February 1895.

The war demonstrated the failure of the Qing Empire's attempts to modernize its military and fend off threats to its sovereignty, especially when compared with Japan's successful Meiji Restoration. For the first time, regional dominance in East Asia shifted from China to Japan; the prestige of the Qing Empire, along with the classical tradition in China, suffered a major blow. The humiliating loss of Korea as a vassal state sparked an unprecedented public outcry. Within China, the defeat was a catalyst for a series of political upheavals led by Sun Yat-sen and Kang Youwei, culminating in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution.

The war is commonly known in China as the War of Jiawu (Chinese: 甲午戰爭; pinyin: Jiǎwǔ Zhànzhēng), referring to the year (1894) as named under the traditional sexagenary system of years. In Japan, it is called the Japan–Qing War (Japanese: 日清戦争, Hepburn: Nisshin sensō^?). In Korea, where much of the war took place, it is called the Qing–Japan War (Korean: 청일전쟁; Hanja: 淸日戰爭).

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