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Japan defeated China in 1895, forcing the Qing Dynasty to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki and cede Taiwan, the Pescadores, and the Liaodong Peninsula. The treaty marked Japan's emergence as a regional power and China's decline, reshaping East Asian politics for decades.
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Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as kango , is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese. Most Sino-Japanese words were borrowed in the 5th–9th centuries AD, from Early Middle Chinese into Old Japanese. Some grammatical structures and sentence patterns can also be identified as Sino-Japanese.
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