Sino-Japanese War

There were two wars known as the Sino-Japanese War:

• The First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) between China (the Qing Dynasty) and Japan (the Empire of Japan), primarily over control of Korea
• The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) between China (Republic of China) and Japan (the Empire of Japan), from 1941 on as part of World War II

Other wars involving China and Japan were:

• Baekje–Tang War (660–663)
• Battle of Baekgang (663)
• The Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281: a coalition of Mongol, Chinese and Korean troops under the Yuan dynasty unsuccessfully invaded Kamakura Japan
• The Jiajing wokou raids (1547–1567) by Chinese-led international merchant-pirates (including the Japanese) on Ming dynasty China
• The Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) was a full-scale war between a Ming dynasty and Joseon coalition and the invading Japanese (called by B.Elman "the first Sino-Japanese war" )
• The Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) of the ex-Qing, Chinese inhabited Republic of Formosa
• Japan was part of the Eight-Nation Alliance that invaded Qing dynasty China during the Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901)
• The Jinan Incident (1928) between Japanese-backed warlords and the Kuomintang
• The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931
• The January 28 Incident (1932) between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan in, and around, Shanghai
• The Defense of the Great Wall (1933) of Rehe (province) and subsequent Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933–1936)