But in vain; and, with the capitulation of Wei-Hai-Wei, Feb.

12, 1895, the war was ended.
With the "Sacred City" of Mukden threatened in the north, and Pekin in the south, Japan could name her own terms as the price of peace.

First of all she demanded an acknowledgment of the independence of Korea.
Then that the island of Formosa and the Manchurian peninsula (Liao-Tung), embracing a coast line from the Korean boundary to Port Arthur, should belong to her.
A severe blow had been dealt to Russia.

She saw her entire Eastern policy threatened with failure.

The permanent occupation of the Liao-Tung peninsula by Japan meant that she had to deal, not with an effete and waning power which she might threaten and cajole, but with a new and ambitious civilization which had just given proof of surprising ability.