# Canonical recap data for Sino-Japanese War Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895)
# Source: https://recap.at/1895/sino-japanese-war
# Format: YAML 1.2 (UTF-8). Generated at request time.
slug: sino-japanese-war
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1895/sino-japanese-war"
title: Sino-Japanese War Treaty of Shimonoseki
subtitle: Japan's victory over China and the subsequent treaty ceded Taiwan and the Liaodong Peninsula, establishing Japan as a regional imperial power.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1895-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1895
decade: 1890
country:
name: Japan
slug: japan
summaryShort: 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 patt
summaryLong: 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.
lede: 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.
heroImageUrl: "https://pixabay.com/get/g61fa9d1f031de443dda17ef8ad6af8ca742b76a8b016001243a0c02584b8265a3dabb2a411674d4db0130af207698073fe28d41bc8c99376fed5282689b1128c_1280.jpg"
heroImageCredit: shell_ghostcage on Pixabay
importance: 77
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary"
  title: Sino-Japanese vocabulary
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- war
metaDescription: Japan's 1895 victory over China in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Treaty of Shimonoseki that followed.
wikidataQid: Q4222379
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260606010553/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-06
  label: Sino-Japanese vocabulary
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary"
