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title: "Sino-Japanese War Treaty of Shimonoseki"
year: 1895
country: "Japan"
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recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1895-01-01"
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# Sino-Japanese War Treaty of Shimonoseki

> Japan's victory over China and the subsequent treaty ceded Taiwan and the Liaodong Peninsula, establishing Japan as a regional imperial power.

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.

## Summary

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.

## Sources

- [Sino-Japanese vocabulary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary) - Wikipedia

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