The Japanese victory in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 made them the new sole oppressors, only to be checked themselves the following year by the Russians.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Through the First Sino-Japanese war, the Russo-Japanese war, and WWI Japan fulfilled its ambition of becoming a major power, only to over-reach and descend into ruin on 8.15.

FORBES: Beginning of "Post-Post-WWII" History?

Historians say hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers were murdered and raped following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing during the second Sino-Japanese war.

CNN: Japan official pushes to buy disputed islands

China believes the islands were annexed by Japan as spoils of the 1895 Sino-Japanese War.

ECONOMIST: A row over some goat-infested rocks heats up