Sino-Japanese War

[ sahy-noh-jap-uh-neez, -nees, -jap-uh-neez, -nees ]

noun

1. the war (1894–95) between China and Japan over the control of Korea that resulted in the nominal independence of Korea and the Chinese cession to Japan of Formosa and the Pescadores.
2. the war that began in 1937 as a Japanese invasion of China and ended with the World War II defeat of Japan in 1945.

Example Sentences

After a relatively brief spell as a Dutch colony, Taiwan was administered by China's Qing dynasty, before it was ceded to Tokyo after Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War.

From BBC

Another theory suggests that, in the photograph, Yang was alluding to Chinese resistors during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

From Seattle Times

Those chapters became her debut novel, “The Poppy War,” a martial arts-infused Chinese military history that drew on the Second Sino-Japanese War.

From New York Times

It was even used as a filming location for a patriotic action film about the Sino-Japanese War.

From Washington Post

In 1895, Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War, and the Qing government had to cede Taiwan to Japan.

From BBC