1st Sino-Japanese War (jul 25, 1894 – apr 17, 1895)

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- Japan defeated China, thus positioning itself as a world power with an empire
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki gave the Pescadores Islands, Formosa and Liaodong Peninsula to Japan, recognized Korean independence and obliged China to pay a large indemnity, to open additional ports and to negotiate a commercial treaty
- The military success of the Sino–Japanese War, the gaining of land and also the frustration at having to give up some land to a Western power, encouraged the growth of nationalism and also militarism in Japan
- Japanese military expansion increased between 1895 and 1905
- Industrial production soared as Japan sought to become less reliant on imports of iron and steel
- A patriotic society, the Amur River Society, was established to promote the idea of Japanese expansion on the mainland

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