* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

As a result, the " Beiyang Navy " were soundly defeated in the Sino-Japanese War ( 1894-1895 ).

The two Chinese parties nominally formed a united front to oppose the Japanese in 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ), which became a part of World War II.

Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which the Nationalist government's power severely weakened, but his prominence grew.

The Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in July 1937, and in August of that year Chiang sent of his best-trained and equipped soldiers to defend Shanghai.

Some blamed him for not doing enough against the Japanese forces in the lead-up to, and during, the Second Sino-Japanese War, preferring to withhold his armies for the fight against the Communists, or merely waiting and hoping that the United States would get involved.

File: Mao Fumei. jpg | Mao Fumei ( 毛福梅, 1882 – 1939 ) Died in the Second Sino-Japanese War during a bombardment.

* 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.

* 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.

* 1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.

The tactics of guerrilla warfare were used successfully in the 20th century by — among others — the Soviet partisans and the Polish Home Army and the OSS in Burma in World War II ; Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.

The Depression of the 1930s, followed by the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, had the effect of ending Chinese emigration to Malaya.

He planned to return to China immediately afterward, but the Second Sino-Japanese War forced him to change his plans.

* 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.

* 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces.

As a result of the Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ), the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki was concluded between China and Japan.

In 1885, Fukuda Hideko and Oi Kentaro, amongst other Liberal reformers, began advocating a plot to “ sail to Korea and create a disturbance large enough to undo the Sino-Japanese accord, Convention of Tientsin, concluded by Ito Hirobumi and Li Hung-chang in 1885 ”; this later became known as the Osaka Incident of 1885.

The monument was buried down as a result of the Treaty of Shimonoseki that concluded the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894-1895 ).

It is written with the kanji "", Sino-Japanese reading shin or jin ; in Chinese, the character is used to refer to various nature spirits of traditional Chinese religion, but not to the Taoist deities or the Supreme Being.

Mao rose to power by commanding the Long March, forming a united front with Kuomintang ( KMT ) during the Second Sino-Japanese War to repel a Japanese invasion, and leading the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) to victory against Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang ( KMT ) in the Chinese Civil War.

During the Sino-Japanese War, Mao advocated a strategy of avoiding open confrontations with the Japanese army and concentrating on guerrilla warfare from his base in Yan ' an, while leaving the KMT to take on the brunt of the fighting and suffer tremendous casualties.

* 1972 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.

These are of course the two World Wars, then followed by the Second Sino-Japanese War ( which is sometimes considered part of World War II, or overlapping with that war ).

* September 29 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan normalizes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

After the Second Sino-Japanese War, the People's Republic of China has refused recognition of the name Mǎnzhōu ( Manchuria ), only using " the Northeast " for the region to avoid acknowledging the Japanese imperial legacy in the area ; the title of Manchuria is still often associated in China with the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

During Itō's second term as prime minister ( August 8, 1892 – August 31, 1896 ), he supported the First Sino-Japanese War and negotiated the Treaty of Shimonoseki in March 1895 with his ailing foreign minister Mutsu Munemitsu.

From then, parts of Taiwan became increasingly integrated into the Qing Dynasty before it ceded the island, along with Penghu, to the Empire of Japan in 1895, following the First Sino-Japanese War.

As a result of the nationalist efforts to deny or rationalize the war crimes, the controversy surrounding the massacre remains a stumbling block in Sino-Japanese relations, as well as Japanese relations with other Asia-Pacific nations such as South Korea and the Philippines.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, due to military defeat to the Japanese, the Qing dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan, causing the contacts with the Min Nan regions of mainland China to stop.

Yuan's rise to fame began with his nominal participation in the First Sino-Japanese War as commander of the Chinese garrison forces in Korea.

This form of government under the KMT lasted through the Northern Expedition, which moved the capital to Nanjing and gave the Nationalist Government domestic control and foreign recognition, and the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which the Japanese established puppet Nationalist Governments with almost the identical organizational structure, until the promulgation of a new Constitution in 1947.

Following the Chinese victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Nationalist Government under Chiang Kai-shek was restored in Nanjing and the KMT set out to enact a liberal democratic Constitution in line with the last stage of Sun Yat-sen's three stages of national development.

After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 ( and the resulting expansion of Japanese territorial control in east China ), Peking University moved to Changsha and formed the Changsha Temporary University along with Tsinghua University and Nankai University.

Following her defeat of China in Korea in the Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ), Japan broke through as an international power with a victory against Russia in Manchuria ( north-eastern China ) in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 1905.

Bethune is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the Communist Eighth Route Army ( Ba Lu Jun ) during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

In November 1940, Wang's government signed the " Sino-Japanese Treaty " with the Japanese, a document that has been compared with Japan's Twenty-one Demands for its broad political, military, and economic concessions.

The Japanese were not familiar with " Kimigayo " as the anthem until there was a surge of celebrations after victories in the First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars.

The Sino-Japanese characters for udon ( 饂飩 ) is similar to, but different from, the modern Chinese characters for wonton, which is called hún dùn in Mandarin ( 馄炖 ), a type of dumplings often served in soup wrapped with wheat dough sheets.

Yip went to live with Kwok Fu during the Second Sino-Japanese War and only returned to Foshan after the war, where he continued his career as a police officer.