Treaty of Shimonoseki
1895 treaty ending the First Sino-Japanese War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, Hepburn: Shimonoseki Jōyaku), also known as the Treaty of Maguan (Chinese: 馬關條約; pinyin: Mǎguān Tiáoyuē; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má-koan Tiâu-iok) in China and Treaty of Bakan (Japanese: 馬關條約, Hepburn: Bakan Jōyaku) in the period before and during World War II in Japan, was an unequal treaty signed at the Shunpanrō [ja] hotel, Shimonoseki, Japan on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing China, ending the First Sino-Japanese War.
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Traditional Chinese | 下關條約 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 下关条约 | ||||||||||
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Kanji | 下関条約 | ||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 馬關條約 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 马关条约 | ||||||||||
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Kyūjitai | 馬關條約 | ||||||||||
Shinjitai | 馬関条約 | ||||||||||
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Under the terms of the treaty, China lost suzerainty over Korea; ceded sovereignty of the Penghu (Pescadores) Islands, Taiwan (Formosa) and the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan; agreed to pay substantial war indemnities to Japan; and opened China to Japanese foreign trade.
The peace conference took place from March 20 to April 17, 1895. This treaty followed and superseded the Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty of 1871.[1][2]