Sino-Japanese War, First
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
SINO-JAPANESE WAR, FIRST 1894 95, conflict between China and Japan for control of Korea in the late 19th cent. The Li-lto...Japan. China also had to pay a large indemnity. Within a week of the treaty signing, however, the diplomatic intervention of Russia, France, and Germany forced Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China. Under a subsidiary commercial treaty (1896...