In all three countries, the conflict had far-reaching implications. From the viewpoint of Japanese imperialism, the invasions are viewed as Japan\'s first attempt to become a global power. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japanese officials exploited the 1592–1597 invasions to legitimize their twentieth-century annexation of Korea. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Yi-Sun Sin\'s triumphs influenced Japanese naval captains, several emphasizing the significance of understanding his warfare skills in order to develop their navy.
The struggle was used politically in China during the twentieth century to foment anti-Japanese nationalism. Chinese historians categorized the battle as one of the Wanli Emperor\'s \"Three Great Punitive Campaigns.\" Contemporary Chinese historians frequently cite the campaigns as evidence of China\'s benevolence toward Korea.
In Korea, like in China, the fight laid the historical groundwork for Korean nationalism, inspiring and exploiting nationalist opposition to Japanese imperialism throughout the twentieth century. Throughout the fight, Korea gained several national heroes, most notably Yi Sun-sin and Chen Lin (founder of the Gwangdong Jin clan). Anti-Japanese attitudes are pervasive in contemporary Korea, stretching all the way back to the 1592 Japanese invasions. During Japan\'s rule of Korea from 1910 to 1945, Koreans had to deal with a lot of hardships. This is mostly because of that.