甲午战争研究第一人最早把戚其章先生称为“甲午战争研究第一人”的竟是两位日本学者。首先是日本的学者龟谷隆行。戚先生从未与他谋过面,对龟谷先生一无所知。龟谷先生的《甲午战争史研究的新进展》一文刊载在日本《东方》杂志1991年11月出版的第128号上。文中写道:“关于甲午战争专论史的最新著作,则有戚其章的《甲午战争史》。众所周知,戚其章先生是甲午战争史研究之第一人。……戚其章先生的成果可以说不仅提高了甲午战争史研究的水平,而且在这个领域的研究方面奠定了一个基础。”第二位称道戚先生的是日本奈良女子大学的中塚明教 The first person in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 referred to Mr. Qi Qizhang as “the first person in the study of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895”, actually the two Japanese scholars. The first is a Japanese scholar Kamegari. Mr. Qi never met with him, know nothing about Mr. Gu Gu. Mr. Kugu’s “New Progress in the Study of the History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894” was published in No. 128, November 2011, Oriental Magazine, Japan. The article states: “The latest book on the monograph on the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1845 is” The History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894. “It is well known that Mr. Qi Qizhang was the first person in the history of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894. ... The achievements of Mr. Qi Qizhang can be said not only to be improved The level of research on the history of the Sino-Japanese War, and laid a foundation for the research in this field. ”" The second person who praised Mr. Qi is Nakatsuka Mika in Nara Women’s University in Japan