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A consequence of the 1894 naval war between Japan and China was that a strong Japanese Army defeated the Chinese troops, and Japan started to increase imperialistic ideals.
During the First Sino-Japanese War that started in July 1894 fight for the control of the Korean peninsula. In China, the Qing Dynasty wanted to control Korea but the Japanese Empire had a more modern and well-trained military and ended up winning the war.
Sino-Japanese WarThe Chinese battleship Zhenyuan captured by the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese War, 1895. In the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which ended the conflict, China recognized the independence of Korea and ceded Taiwan, the adjoining Pescadores, and the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria.
