Description: When during the night of the 8th of February 1904 the relatively small Japan launched a surprise attack against ...

Japanese War was the ultimate test between the respective modernisation processes of both Japan and China. The war didn't ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The setback that the Japanese dealt to the Russians in 1904-05 helped shape the contours of Asian politics for a century. (This article first appeared in 2014.) The Russo ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: World War I and World War II so transformed the maps of both Europe and Asia that discerning the influence of antecedent conflicts like the Russo-Japanese War can be ...

One hundred seventeen years ago, an indecisive regional war between Imperial Russia and Japan produced revolution within Russia. In January 1905, in the midst of the Russo-Japanese War (which began in ...

On television and online, commentators reach furiously for comparisons to past conflicts for insights into the Ukrainian-Russian war. How will it ever end? At the same time, military analysts watch ...

Portsmouth marks the 115th anniversary Saturday of its hosting of peace talks that ended the Russo-Japanese War. The 1905 armistice earned President Theodore Roosevelt a Nobel Peace Prize for ending ...

A peace treaty between Russia and Japan that would bring an end to the Russo-Japanese War appeared to be an impossibility until mid-day on Monday, Aug. 29, 1905. After nearly three weeks of tough ...

Conferences of the oriental species have precisely the same traits as those of occidental origin. The conference at Tokyo between Japan and Soviet Russia to effect a trade agreement and possible ...