Still, the Russo-Japanese War may indeed have been a “regional” conflict, but Northeast Asia is a remarkably important region, home to three of the largest economies of the 21st century.

LONDON, June 7.-The Peking correspondent of The Times, in a long mail article, dated April 25, which deals with Russo-Japanese rivalry in the Far East, expresses the opinion that war between the ...

Map of the Russo-Japanese War, with a chronological sequence of major events, on June 10, 1904 from The Hawaiian Gazette. (loc.gov) The Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan had been fighting a ...

This war, often overlooked, would reshape global history and Asia's power balance. It's not 1941, but rather a lesser-known chapter—the Russo-Japanese War. Join us as we dive into this ...

A 1904 print shows sailors from the Japanese torpedo boat, Sazanami, boarding a Russian torpedo boat during a sea battle off Port Arthur, Manchuria, during the Russo-Japanese war. (Ryōzō Tanaka ...

Southern Sakhalin was ceded to Japan in the Treaty of Portsmouth (1905) which terminated the Russo-Japanese War. There is, however, a complication in the Sakhalin controversy.

In one of history’s most decisive naval battles, Japan obliterated Russia’s fleet at Tsushima, ending the Russo-Japanese War and signaling a new era in global power. This Kings and Generals ...

Less than 40 years after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when Japan began to rapidly modernize, it defeated Russia, one of the world’s great powers, in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5.

In the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05, the then single-tracked Trans-Siberian operated with great skill and raised the Russian forces in the Far East from approximately 100,000 men to a strength of 300 ...

A thorough boy's tale, on the order of the Henty books, is "Kobo; A Story of the Russo-Japanese War," by Herbert Strang, (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.) ...